Return of the God Hypothesis: Breakthroughs in Physics, Cosmology, and Biology Seeking Evidence for the Existence of God

by Stephen C. Meyer

Shannon’s tenth theorem,23 named for Claude Shannon, the MIT scientist who developed information theory in the late 1940s. This theorem recognizes that as an information-rich signal or message travels across a communication channel (or through a medium of transmission), it will typically experience what information theorists describe as degradation, corruption, or loss of fidelity, a process described by the second law of thermodynamics. Shannon’s tenth theorem states that in order for the information-rich message to arrive from a sender to a receiver without loss, information from outside the system must be added to compensate for the inevitable loss of information that will occur as the result of entropy-producing buffeting from the surrounding environment. In other words, to transmit information with a high degree of fidelity, information from a “correction channel” outside the main channel must be applied to constrain the inevitable noise.

Which exp!ains why mutations in DNA code "naturally" inevitably occur?