As we have established, genes are not simply sequences of nucleotides. Those sequences carry meaning. There is a message. There is information. Yet the information is not coterminous with the medium. Just as a book is far more than the paper, ink, and glue that go into its making, the information contained in genes is more than a propitious arrangement of molecules.
The matter of a book or a strand of DNA exists as a vehicle for imparting information. As John 1:1 says, the Word was before all else in the universe. Philip Johnson has commented, "Highly complex information that is independent of matter implies an intelligent source that produced the information, and the main point of Darwinism...is to eliminate that possibility from consideration."
The fundamental flaw of reductionistic thinking is thereby unveiled. Information is not indentical to the medium of communication. By themselves, physical laws reproduce patterns with only chance variation. Crystals are complex structures, but physical forces simply produce the same patterns of crystal formation over and over again. The only variations are introduced randomly and are not conserved or replicated. Nor is any information imparted by the repetition of patterns indefinitely. A computer program that directs the printing of a single word over and over again communicates nothing of substance.
Information is logically precedent to the medium by which it is communicated. So is it sufficient to explain the development of the medium alone?
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The elephant in the room is that DNA is language. There's no getting around it. Just as I am thinking, then typing my thoughts (most of the time in that order..), DNA can't spontaneously and randomly appear. It's absurd to think so. It is proof that language preceded human existence, and thus so did intelligence. In fact, for there to be a universe, somebody had to put a little thought into it!
Yes, sir. Exactly so.
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