A number of people have now been warning against Denis Alexander’s Creation or Evolution: do we have to choose? Both theologically and scientifically, this book is seriously in error.
The theological issues are dealt with elsewhere (Evangelical Times, October 2008, ‘The Downgrade Controversy of the 21st Century’), and see EN, November 2008, ‘Rescuing Darwin or Wrecking the Faith?’. In this article I concentrate on two major scientific issues — information and thermodynamics.
1. Information in living systems
Where Alexander and those of an evolutionary viewpoint are at their weakest is in the scientific debate concerning the very nature of information in living systems.
