[tortoise]

This would seem to agree with tortoise's statement that symmetry is simpler than asymmetry.

More strictly, symmetry typically contains less algorithmic information than asymmetry, and therefore can be generated by simpler machinery. The more symmetry and order we find and thus the smaller the algorithmic information content, the higher the probability that the necessary machinery could be brute-forced and bootstrapped by mechanistic chance.

It would seem useful for proponents of ID to find as much disorder and irregularity as possible to support their hypothesis. All this order and regularity in nature detracts from their assertion that design is an explanatory necessity.

[darbymcgill]

More strictly, symmetry typically contains less algorithmic information than asymmetry, and therefore can be generated by simpler machinery.

I can see how symmetry could be more easily replicated once achieved. But it seems to me that the achievement of symmetry via random mutation would be significantly more complex.

What am I missing?