Page 309 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Nineteenth-century materialist scientists and thinkers thought that
the answer would be that science verifies reductionism. Twentieth-
century science, however, has revealed a very different picture.
One of the most salient feature of this picture is "information," which
is present in nature and can never be reduced to matter.

The Difference between Matter and Information
We earlier mentioned that there is astonishingly comprehensive
information contained in the DNA of living things. Something as small as
a hundred thousandth of a millimeter across contains a sort of "data bank"
that specifies all the physical details of the body of a living thing.
Moreover, the body also contains a system that reads this information,
interprets it and carries out "production" in line with it. In all living cells,
the information in the DNA is "read" by various enzymes, and proteins are
produced. This system makes possible the production of millions of
proteins every second, of just the required type for just the places where
they are needed in our bodies. In this way, dead eye cells are replaced by
living ones, and old blood cells by new ones.
At this point, let us consider the claim of materialism: Is it possible
that the information in DNA could be reduced to matter, as materialists
suggest? Or, in other words, can it be accepted that DNA is merely a
collection of matter, and the information it contains came about as a result
of the random interactions of such pieces of matter?
All the scientific research, experiments and observations carried out
in the twentieth century show that the answer to this question is a definite
"No." The director of the German Federal Physics and Technology
Institute, Prof. Werner Gitt, has this to say on the issue:

A coding system always entails a nonmaterial intellectual process. A
physical matter cannot produce an information code. All experiences show
that every piece of creative information represents some mental effort and
can be traced to a personal idea-giver who exercised his own free will, and
who is endowed with an intelligent mind.... There is no known law of
nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can
cause information to originate by itself in matter... 378
Werner Gitt's words summarize the conclusions of "information

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