Marplots: I fear that "information" is becoming the latest place to hang our mysticism hats. We will miss religion when it finally dies off. We will miss the easy target.
What do you mean "easy target"? You mean the feeling of something "more"?
No, I mean the claims that religious communities make that are easily shown false. Pretty much anything geological or historical. When they have a book, we get to point out passages and say them nay. Information theory, as practiced by the wooster, is much more slippery than that. There are a slew of terms they can miss-define and misuse. It becomes more of a philosophical stance than a mathematical one.
I remember when it was the fashion to dodge with Godel's Incompleteness theorem -- it had the sheen of mathematical truth, but was misapplied horridly, extended dreadfully, and if you tried to point this out, devotees would happily ignore anything that looked like a difficult (although correct) explanation.
To see how Shannon, codes and information theory is being misused already, take a look at this guy's site: http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/atheists-riddle-2/