The claim: No genetic mutation may increase information.
Get a long enough straw, and if some people can suck as well as they can blow, we'll have the Loch Ness, monster and all, over here in no time. (Scotsman overseas somewhere, discussing the size of a blowhard's swimming pool.)
reductio ad absurdum, did someone say? A long winded bore was carrying on at length under a grass thatched shelter here in Australia and to save the listeners from ongoing embarrassment, someone set fire to the roof. Thankfully.
Einstein. Energy = MCsq'd. Matter is in a real sense energy.
Planck. Energy = h(a constant) V(in this case frequency). Energy is in a real sense frequency.
Therefore matter is in a real sense frequency -- and frequency is in a real sense information. Remember light? Waveform, having frequency, 'quanta', the superlative information carrier -- and light is absorbed by matter and radiated by matter under various conditions. Matter is information based. "Upholding the universe by the word (information) of his power (putting information into effect).
First Law. Matter can be neither created nor destroyed. Therefore, information can be neither created nor destroyed.
As Donald exclaimed when Gyro donned a mortarboard hat, rang a bell, and a school of fish jumped aboard: "I'll be a brine encrusted, brine pickled, brine something or othered something or other: the man IS catching fish."
So the universe is an information based hologram. If that information is not untouchable and sacrosanct so to speak but can fret away or be added, the hologram falls in a heap.
Every time you type something into your computer, do you create information? What is DNA, genes, etc., but a computational system?
So someone designs an information processing system and suddenly the fact that it can process certain categories of information means that information is new?