Posted: Feb 27, 2012 6:22 pm
My view is that rather than think of Darwinian evolution as "creating new information" it is better to think of it as copying information from the environment into the genetic code. That is to say, the information about the features that living things should have to be good at reproducing is already out there in the environment. It is implicit in the environment. Evolution extracts this information gradually from the environment.