# Uncommon or Common Descent?

**URL:** https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/uncommon-or-common-descent/776
**Category:** Side Conversation
**Created:** [July 23, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/uncommon-or-common-descent/776 "2018-07-23T19:07:12Z")
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### Author: ![EricMH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/ericmh/32/679_2.png) [@EricMH](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/EricMH)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/uncommon-or-common-descent/776/234 "2018-08-09T22:15:22Z")

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> [@swamidass](#):
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> I have a job to during work hours and a family too. You could just go learn the basics of information theory and see it for yourself too.

Certainly, I am not asking you to take away time from your family. You go above and beyond with all the time you devote to this site. However, if it is as basic as you claim, you can at least state the theorem that proves me wrong.

I’ve spent a couple years now studying information theory, and the more I learn the more it confirms chance and necessity cannot create complex structure. Hence the proofs I referred to.

I started skeptical of the information theory ID arguments, too, but it turns out they are spot on.

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