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Professor Werner Gitt, director of the domains will never be brought together in
German Federal Institute of Physics and any kind of the sense usually implied by
Technology, says: the term “reductionism.” . . . The gene is a
package of information, not an object. . . .
A code system is always the result of a
In biology, when you're talking about
mental process (it requires an intelligent
things like genes and genotypes and gene
origin or inventor) . . . It should be emp-
pools, you're talking about information,
hasized that matter as such is unable to
not physical objective reality. . . . This de-
generate any code. All experiences indi-
arth of shared descriptors makes matter
cate that a thinking being voluntarily
and information two separate domains of
exercising his own free will, cognition,
existence, which have to be discussed se-
and creativity, is required. There is no
parately, in their own terms. 224
known law of nature, no known process
and no known sequence of events which Evolutionists occasionally admit the-
can cause information to originate by it- ir despair. One frankly spoken authority
self in matter. . . . 'There is no known na- on this subject is the famous French zo-
tural law through which matter can give
ologist Pierre Grassé, according to
rise to information, neither is any physi-
whom the most important fact to invali-
cal process or material phenomenon
date the Darwinist account is the infor-
known that can do this. 223
mation that constitutes life:
Gitt’s words reflect the same conclu-
Any living being possesses an enormous
sions arrived at from the Information
amount of “intelligence,” very much mo-
Theory developed over the last 20 to 30
re than is necessary to build the most
years and which is regarded as a compo-
magnificent of cathedrals. Today, this
nent of thermodynamics. George C. Wil- “"intelligence” is called information, but
liams, one of the most prominent adhe- it is still the same thing. It is not prog-
rents of the theory of evolution alive to- rammed as in a computer, but rather it is
day, accepts this fact, which most mate- condensed on a molecular scale in the
rialists and evolutions are reluctant to chromosomal DNA or in that of every ot-
admit. Despite having vigorously espou- her organelle in each cell. This “intelli-
sed materialism for many years, Willi- gence” is the sine qua non of life. Where
ams in a 1995 article stated the error of does it come from? . . . This is a problem
the materialist (reductionistic) approach that concerns both biologists and philo-
sophers, and, at present, science seems
that assumes that everything consists of
incapable of solving it. . . . 225
matter alone:
Contrary to Grassé’s statement that
Evolutionary biologists have failed to re-
alize that they work with two more or less science can never resolve this problem,
incommensurable domains: that of infor- all the scientific research that has been
mation and that of matter. . . These two carried out invalidates the hypotheses of

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