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December 9, 2015
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The Taxonomy of Information, Pt. 1
Casey Luskin
December 9, 2015
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Episode 890
Guest(s) Casey Luskin
Duration 00:09:40 Download Audio File (8.9 mb)
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On this episode of ID the Future , Casey Luskin discusses the taxonomy of information, explaining various ways of defining information and whether or not they are helpful for making a design inference. He examines syntactic information, Shannon information and Kolmogorov information.
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Associate Director and Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureCasey Luskin is a geologist and an attorney with graduate degrees in science and law, giving him expertise in both the scientific and legal dimensions of the debate over evolution. He earned his PhD in Geology from the University of Johannesburg, and BS and MS degrees in Earth Sciences from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied evolution extensively at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His law degree is from the University of San Diego, where he focused his studies on First Amendment law, education law, and environmental law.