Microbes to Man - Happening Before Our Eyes?

What counts as new information?

CMI made a video with proposed examples, and then debunks the claim these really involve new information, quite successfully.

CMI : Gain of function mutations: not evidence for evolution (Creation Magazine LIVE! 7-19)
CMIcreationstation | 20.II.2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myXaAU_JnqU

So, what is the exact type of increase in information that Evolution (with Capital E) actually counts on?

The number of cell types required for the construction of a metazoan body plan can serve as an index of morphological (or anatomical) complexity; living metazoans range from four (placozoans) to over 200 (hominids) somatic cell types.

OK, sounds interesting.

A plot of the times of origin of body plans against their cell type numbers suggests that the upper bound of complexity has increased more or less steadily from the earliest metazoans until today, at an average rate of about one cell type per 3 m.y. (when nerve cell types are lumped).

Ah, ok, so if we have 201 cell types now, we had 200 three million years and 199 six million years ago?

How do you observe this rate of change?

Simple answer is, you don't.

And, now we get a little hat tip to the guys I quoted:

Morphological Complexity Increase in Metazoans
James W. Valentine, Allen G. Collins and C. Porter Meyer
Paleobiology, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 131-142
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2401015?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

This has been known since 1994, and Evolutionists are still willing to cite antibiotics resistant bacteria as example of "increase in information" ... well, since in fact we do not have any observation of any even one million of years, we certainly do not need to take the "average rate of about one cell type per 3 m.y." too literally.

Here is my suggestion : we have never seen one organism develop even one new cell type, so, how about just scrapping the increase in morphological complexity whatever rate it might be as wishful thinking?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Euthymius of Sardis
11.III.2019