The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (FT Press Science)

If we ask who was more correct—the theologians who argued for a Creator-God, or the intellectually unfulfilled atheists who argued that mice spontaneously generated—then the theologians must be declared the victors: evolution is not God, but it is closer to God than it is to pure random entropy. Mutation is random, but selection is non-random. This

Although these measures are only in their nascent stages, they show us that quantifying biological knowledge—information that aids far-from-equilibrium survival—can someday be a tractable task.