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reductionism , the basic logic of materialism, is compared to scientific data?
The 19 th century materialist scientists and thinkers thought that this ques-
th
tion could be easily answered away as "science verifies reductionism". 20 cen-
tury science, however, revealed a very different fact.
This fact is "information", which is present in nature and can never be
reduced to matter.

Difference between Matter and Information
We have earlier mentioned that there is an incredibly comprehensive infor-
mation in the DNAs of living beings. In a place as small as one hundred thou-
sandth of a millimeter, there is some sort of a "data bank" that specifies all the
physical details of the body of a living being. Moreover, there exists a system in
the body of a living being that reads this information, interprets it and makes
"production" according to it. In all living cells, the information in DNAis "read"
by various enzymes and protein is produced according to this information. The
production of millions of proteins every second in the required type for the
required place in our body becomes possible with this system. Owing to this
system, our dying eye cells are replaced again by eye cells, and our blood cells
again by blood cells.
At this point, let us think of the claim of materialism: Could it be possible
that the information in DNA be reduced to matter as materialists say? Or, in
other words, can it be accepted that DNA is merely a heap of matter and the
information it contains came about as the random interactions of matter?
All the scientific research, experiments and observations carried out in the
20 th century show that this question must definitely be answered as "no". The
director of the German Federal Physics and Technology Institute, Prof. Dr.
Werner Gitt has the following to say on the issue:
A coding system always entails a nonmaterial intellectual process. A physi-
cal 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

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