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question we need to ask is: What happens when reductionism, the basic
logic of materialism, is compared to scientific data?
19th century materialist scientists and thinkers thought that the
answer would be that "science verifies reductionism." 20th 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.

Matter Cannot Produce Information

We earlier mentioned that there is incredibly comprehensive
information contained in the DNA of living things. Something as small as
a hundred thousandth of a millimetre 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 according to this information. 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 20th century show that the answer to this question is a definite
"No." The director of the German Federal Physics and Technology
Institute, Prof. Dr. 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

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and the Death of Materialism