An intuitive explanation of conservation of information showing how it destroys the credibility of Darwinian naturalism This republished article first appeared in Bill Dembski’s subsack. Despite its flamboyant title, this paper is about a well-defined and sober concept—conservation of information. The term conservation of information sounds technical and suggests it can be difficult to understand. It’s not. I want in this brief article to cut to the heart of this concept. I’ll show that it is self-evidently true. Additionally, I’ll show how it obliterates the materialistic, nihilistic conception of the world championed by aggressive atheists who use science as a club to beat religion. If I could go back in time and rename conservation of information with a single word, I’d go with “offload” (verb form) or “offloading” (noun form). When you offload something, you don’t eliminate the load. Rather, you shift it to someone or something else. Moreover, in doing so, you do nothing to reduce the load. In particular, the universe doesn’t step in and through some law of nature make the load …