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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

age of information, not an object. . . In biology, when
you're talking about things like genes and genotypes and gene
pools, you're talking about information, not physical objective re-
ality. . . This dearth of shared descriptors makes matter and infor-
mation two separate domains of existence, which have to be
discussed separately, in their own terms. 50
Reductionism is the product of the 18th and 19th centuries'
unsophisticated science. This fundamental deception of
Darwinism presupposed that life is so simple that its origins can
be explained in terms of random occurrences. But 20th-century bi-
ology has shown that exactly the opposite is the case. Phillip

Johnson, retired professor of the University of California at
Berkeley and one of Darwinism's contemporary critics, explains
that Darwinism has neglected information as the foundation of
life and this has led it into error:
Post-Darwinian biology has been dominated by materialist dogma,
the biologists have had to pretend that organisms are a lot simpler
than they are. [According to them] Life itself must be merely
chemistry. Assemble the right chemicals, and life emerges.
DNA must likewise be a product of chemistry alone. As an
exhibit in the New Mexico Museum of Natural
History puts it, "volcanic gasses plus lightning
equal DNA equals LIFE!" When queried about
this fable, the museum spokesman acknowl-
edged that it was simplified, but said it
was basically true. 51

It is literally superstitious to accept
the claim that natural phenomena
produce genetic data.

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