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100 Reasons to Choose Biblical Creation Over Evolution
18. Information
It is universally acknowledged that the DNA molecule in cells contains information. The DNA in the cells of your body, for example, contains the information for your hair, skin, and eye colour, etc. When a cell needs to make more of a certain chemical, it "photocopies" that portion of the DNA that contains the information (blueprint) to make this chemical. The "photocopy" is then taken from the centre of the cell (the nucleus) and brought to a "workstation" (the ribosome) where the information from the DNA is translated and chemical production begins.
According to evolution, living things are reducible to matter and nothing more. The information contained within the DNA molecule, however, poses a huge problem for evolutionists because information cannot be reduced to simply matter. Information actually transcends matter. The proof is this book. The book you're holding is filled with information expressed on paper in ink. But this same information can be expressed in a number of ways. It can be stored on a computer and expressed through various programs, it can be written on a chalkboard, or it can be scratched in the ground with a stick! That fact that the same information can be expressed in a variety of mediums proves that information is greater than the material it's expressed on. Ultimately, information must have its origin in someone's mind.
Since there is no known natural process that could create the type of complex information contained in the DNA molecule A, we might well conclude that this information, too, was birthed first in the mind - the mind of life's architect and builder - God Himself.
18.Information - Notes and References
A. Bradley and Thaxton, "The Creation Hypothesis: Information and the Origin of Life", pp. 196-197: "In 1967, the British philosopher and physical chemist Michael Polanyi published a remarkable paper in Chemical and Engineering News entitled "Life Transcending Physics and Chemistry." He said that chemistry and physics are adequate to explain everything in nature except the machines of people and living systems…[Living systems'] operations may be well understood within the confines of chemistry, but their origin seems to defy a simple chemical, physical explanation. The source of the information-intensive initial conditions seems to be outside the realm of chemistry and physics alone."