Re: "God of the Gaps"

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:40:38 -0500

At Thu 14 Mar 1996 16:34 CT, Glenn.Morton@ORYX.COM wrote:
>Secondly, I would use the citation from Yockey, to back up my contention that
>given a digital signal, it is "fundamentally impossible" to mathematically
>determine whether that signal was made by a random process or by a highly
>organized process. Yockey has not gone off to la-la land. (I cite this
>again, Hubert P. Yockey, Information Theory and Molecular Biology, Cambridge
>University Press, 1992, p. 82)

I haven't read Yockey yet, but this is consistent with what I understand of
information theory.

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