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the peppered moths. Not only is the in- his mind into letters by way of a typew-
terpretation of the story wrong, but so is riter or computer. These letters later go
the story itself. As the molecular biolo- to the printer and are turned into that bo-
gist Jonathan Wells described in his ok consisting of paper and ink.
2000 book, Icons of Evolution, the re- From this, we may draw the general
ported tale of the Industrial-Revolution conclusion that if something contains in-
Moths does not reflect the true facts at formation, then it must have been set out
all. (For detailed information, see The by a mind possessed of information.
Evolution Deceit by Harun Yahya.) First, that mind translated the informati-
on it possessed into matter, and thus pro-
duced a design.
Information theory In their DNA, living things possess
exceedingly wide-ranging information.
This discipline investigates the struc-
A literal data bank describes all the
ture and origin of the information in the
physical details of an organism’s body in
universe. As a result of lengthy research,
a space just 1/100,000 th of a meter in si-
the conclusion reached by information
ze. In addition, there is also a system that
theoreticians is that information is dis-
reads this information in the living body,
tinct from matter. It can never be reduced
analyzes it, and sets about production
to matter. The sources of information and
accordingly. The information in the
matter must be investigated separately.
DNA in all of a living thing’s cells is re-
For example, a book consists of pa-
ad by various enzymes, and proteins are
per, ink and the information within it.
produced in the light of that information.
However, ink and paper are material ele-
Millions of proteins are produced every
ments. Their origin again lies in matter:
second in line with your body’s require-
Paper is composed of cellulose, and ink
ments. Thanks to this system, dead blo-
from various chemicals and dyes. od cells are replaced with living ones.
The information in a book, however, All the scientific research conducted
is not material and cannot have any ma- in the 20th century, the results of all the
terial origin. The source of the informati- experiments and all the observations, re-
on in every book is the mind of the aut- vealed that the information in DNA can-
hor who wrote it. not be reduced to matter alone, as mate-
Furthermore, this author also deter- rialists would have us believe. To put it
mines how this paper and ink are to be another way, it definitively rejects the
used. A book first takes shape in its aut- idea that DNA is merely a collection of
hor’s mind. The writer constructs a pat- organic compounds and that all the in-
tern and sets out sentences. He gives the- formation it contains came about as the
se a material form—turning the words in result of chance interactions.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)