Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 2:38:59 AM
In the past there were so-called perpetual motion experts. These were inventors and tinkerers who wanted to build a machine that would run continuously without the supply of energy. The discovery of the law of conservation of energy brought all efforts to solve this challenge to a halt because a perpetuum mobile is an impossible machine. Such a machine will never be built, as the laws of nature make it impossible.
Evolution could only occur if the possibility existed that information could arise by itself out of matter. Those who believe that evolution is a plausible concept believe in a “perpetuum mobile of information”. If there were laws of nature that preclude a perpetuum mobile of this kind, the theory of evolution would be disproved. Such laws of nature actually exist.
The concept of this theory of information is explained in the first article [http://creation.com/laws-of-information-1] which enumerated four scientific laws of information arising from observations in the real world. None of them has been falsified by way of an observable process or experiment. In this article, conclusions will be drawn from the laws of information that have the same effect on macro-evolution as the law of conservation of energy had on perpetual motion machines.
Scientific Laws of Information (SLI): [ Werner Gitt; http://creation.com/laws-of-information-2 ]
SLI-1: A material entity cannot generate a non-material entity.
SLI-2: Universal information is a non-material fundamental entity.
SLI-3: Universal information cannot be created by statistical processes.
SLI-4: Universal information can only be produced by an intelligent sender.
4a: Every code is based upon a mutual agreement between sender and receiver.
4b: There is no new universal information without an intelligent sender.
4c: Every information transmission chain can be traced back to an intelligent sender.
4d: Attributing meaning to a set of symbols is an intellectual process requiring intelligence.
1. That God exists is refutation of atheism
Because it can be established that all forms of life contain a code (DNA, RNA), as well as all of the other levels of information, we are within the domain of our definition of information. We can therefore conclude by applying SLI-4 that: There must be an intelligent sender!
Because there has never been a process in the material world, demonstrable through observation or experiment, in which information has arisen without prior intelligence, then that also must be valid for all the information present in living things. Furthermore, what we do observe about information—namely that it intrinsically depends upon an original act of intelligence to construct it, excludes the possibility of information coming from non-intelligence. An intelligent author wrote the DNA programs for self-replicating life forms.
The spiritual realm and the question of origins are inaccessible to natural science; science cannot identify the message sender. But to argue that the sender cannot exist because the methods of human science cannot perceive him, both misapplies science and is untenable according to the laws of information. The requirement that there must be a personal sender exercising his own free will cannot be relinquished. This Sender, the Creator, has revealed Himself in the Scriptures in the person and work of Jesus Christ so that we do have information about Him. ‘Christ was in the world and the world was made through Him’ [John 1:10].
The origin of life.
If one considers living things as unknown systems that can be analysed with the help of natural laws, then one finds all five levels of the definition of information: statistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and apobetics. In accordance with the natural laws of information, the origin of any information requires a sender equipped with intelligence and will. The fact that the sender in this case is not observable is not in contradiction to these laws. In a huge library with thousands of volumes, the authors are also not visible; but no one would maintain that there was no author for all this information. If one penetrates beyond the boundaries set by the limits of natural science by consulting the Bible, the Sender reveals Himself as the Almighty Creator. [Gitt]
The Bible also reveals truth about man and about the world that we could not otherwise know. Man is an image bearer of God and given dominion over the earth, but because of his sin, man is captive to his depravity and the world is under a curse. Depravity helps us to understand why men suppress the knowledge of God revealed in what exists. Depravity leads otherwise intelligent men to mock the self-revealed God of creation. Rather than seeing His eternal power revealed in what exists, they pose the question: Who made God? As if this justifies their unbelief, rather than testify to their depravity. [VfT]