The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells. It has been discovered that nowhere else can a higher statistical packing density of information be found.
Evolutionary scientists trying to get around the irreducible complexity of the genetic code keep trying to come up with simpler, more achievable alternatives to explain molecules-to-man evolution. The latest candidate for a pre-biotic “genetic code” is threose nucleic acid (TNA).
It is advantageous to consider a three-fold vertical division of types of information:
At the moment of death, the totality of DNA information is still present in all the cells, but the operational and communication information has disappeared. It is thus clear that there is another crucial difference between living beings and dead organisms.
For more than a century Christians have looked for the scientific silver bullet that would destroy Darwinian evolution and prove biblical creation to be true.
Up to this point, we emphasized that information is an essential characteristic of life.
Matter and energy are necessary aspects of living forms, but they do not fundamentally distinguish between living and inanimate systems.
The aspects of information that we studied earlier are also found in the Bible.
The transfer of information is one of the fundamental principles of life.
TNA-world still doesn’t spell anything.
What if it could be shown through empirical science that the universe consists of more than just mass and energy?
Man’s natural language is the most comprehensive as well as the most differentiated means of expression.
Shannon’s definition of information entails only one minor aspect of the nature of information, as we will discuss at length.
The question about the origin of matter and the energies we observe in action is already answered in the first verse of the Bible.
Let us now examine how the Bible addresses the six measures for quantitatively evaluating information (especially its semantics) .
According to biblical assertions all information given out by humans is evaluated by God.
The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells.
A small selection of the frequently asked questions about information theory are now listed and answered briefly.
We can now begin to evaluate semantic information quantitatively, after having considered the essentials at the semantics level in the preceding chapters.
To rise above Shannon’s information theory, it is necessary to define measures for semantic information which must be generally valid.
If someone presents a model for explaining the origin of life, but he cannot say where the creative information characteristic of all life-forms came from, the crucial question remains unanswered.
Information accosts us from all sides and presents itself over a wide range of manifestations.
There is an extreme multiplicity of life-forms around us, and even a simple unicellular organism is much more complex and purposefully designed than anything that human inventiveness can produce.
Information always plays a substitutionary role. The encoding of reality is a mental process.
The question is whether these pictures represent information or not.
Many scientists therefore justly regard information as the third fundamental entity alongside matter and energy.
Through the natural sciences, the world around us is observed for the purpose of discovering the rules governing it.
What is the reason that such a system can function?
A recent post on the Daily Telegraph accuses creationists of believing in “magic,” but it fails to see the faith needed to believe in evolution.
The cracks are beginning to show in the monopoly that evolutionist have had on academic publications.
It’s often said that ‘two heads are better than one’. But, in the case of Sam and Ella, two heads aren’t so good.
Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have embarked on a research project to create an artificial ‘housefly’ that can fly around in dangerous or small spaces, such as collapsed buildi
The most famous of all computer software gurus has recently acknowledged the brilliance of the programming in our bodies (without any hint of acknowledging the Programmer, so far).
The ‘information’ argument is used by many creationists to show that particles-to-people evolution is impossible. Following is an attempt by a critic to discredit this argument, and our response.
‘Where’, questions the creationist, ‘would the information come from to effect such a transformation?
A rigorous analysis of the characteristics of information demonstrates that living things intrinsically reflect both the mind and will of their Creator.
Most would acknowledge that as complexity of information and design increases, there has to be an increase in the intelligence and ability of the one who produces it.
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