Summary: Several Lines of Reasoning Show the Information Problem is Insurmountable

• Information is a mental concept not a physical concept – information comes only from a mind

• Intelligent design: physical causes cannot do the work of intelligent causes

• Mutation/selection cannot produce a net gain in information, nor even stop the gradual but certain degradation of existing genetic information

• • Why? Most mutations are nearly-neutral in effect and are therefore immune to selection, and are accumulating and decreasing biological fitness
  • Beneficial mutations are rare and are vastly outnumbered by bad mutations

• Mathematics shows that mutation cannot produce a new species