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endowed with an intelligent mind.... There is no known law of nature, no
known process and no known sequence of events which can cause infor -
mation to originate by itself in matter... 13
The words of Werner Gitt are the conclusions of "The Information Theory" ,
which developed in the last 20-30 years and which is
accepted as a part of thermodynamics. The
Information Theory investigates the origin and
nature of the information in the universe. The con-
clusion reached by the information theoreticians as
a result of their long research 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 is made up 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 is made of certain chemicals.
However, the information in the book
is nonmaterial and it cannot have a
material source. The source of the

A watchmaker determines how
to use these materials to pro -
duce a watch. He pours the
information in his mind to form
this watch from materials which
do not mean anything by them -
selves. Wouldn't it be illogical
to claim that these pieces came
together and formed this
watch? The claim of evolution -
ists on the origin of life is far
more illogical than this.
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