Citing Claude Shannon of Bell Labs in this regard is particularly offensive to me, given my regard for his contributions: grounding information and communications theory in thermodynamics through the recognition that the meaning in a text or the usefulness of a library was due to the work that had been done against entropy in the creation of that order and that transmission degradation constituted an increase in entropy.  He and Warren Weaver presented this in an accessible form in  The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, 1949.  This was after writing a Masters Thesis at MIT in which he described vacuum tube operational amplifiers; described their possible applications  mathematically and showed how they could be applied as analog computers continuously solving the problem of aiming naval guns on a moving platform aiming at a moving target.  His Masters Thesis at MIT  was immediately classified and used to design the fire control systems on allied ships during WWII.

Gilder's arguments that the amount of information contained in the genetic code and the elegance of its organization  can only be explained by the presence of an intelligent creator remains a giant non sequitur.  It is and has been refuted by experiment over and over and only reveals his predisposition: there must be a theistic deity "up there" like a super father who is making sure everything is ok.  That is a far cry from Ayala's position, which is essentially naturalistic.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."