The more I argued that his logic was circular, the more the two of us seemed to just be going around in circles. So we moved on to another dimension of his position. And the environment has to have certain features, such as available energy and various physical laws. In fact, the eminent geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky once said that natural selection is a process that transmits information from environment to genome. Let me put the point more abstractly.
Natural selection is an algorithm.
And no algorithm can do anything more than take one kind of information and turn it into another kind. He says that the kind of front-loaded information I'm talking about is not the kind he's talking about. Anyway, that's my view . By the way, Dembski will present his argument in a book called No Free Lunch , to be published this summer. Return to The Earthling .