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Matter which contains information is
ordered by the possessor of that
information. The information in DNA has
been designed and created by God, the
possessor of matchless intelligence.
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... 17
Werner Gitt's words summarise
the conclusions of "information
theory," which has been developed in
the last 50 years and is accepted as a
part of thermodynamics. Information
theory investigates the origin and
nature of the information in the universe. The conclusion reached by the
information theoreticians as a result of long studies is that "Information
is something different from matter. It can never be reduced to matter.
The origin of information and physical matter must be investigated
separately."
For instance, let us think of the source of a book. A book consists of
paper, ink, and the information it contains. Paper and ink are material
elements. Their source is again matter: Paper is made of cellulose, and ink
of certain chemicals. However, the information in the book is nonmaterial
and cannot have a material source. The source of the information in each
book is the mind of the person who wrote it.
Moreover, this mind determines how paper and ink will be used. A
book initially forms in the mind of the writer. The writer builds a chain of
logic in his mind, and orders his sentences. As a second step, he puts them
into a material form, which is to say that he translates the information in

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