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scribes all the physical details of an organism's body is squeezed into a
space just 1/100,000 of a millimeter. In addition, the living cell also pos-

sesses a system that reads and interprets this information and engages
in production accordingly. In every living cell, the information inside
DNA is read by various enzymes, and proteins produced according to
that information. Every second, the manufacture of millions of pro-
teins, of just the type required for the site concerned, takes place inside
our bodies. By means of this system, eye cells or blood cells that die are
replaced by new ones.

Can the information inside DNA be reduced to matter, as materi-
alists would have us believe? Or can DNA be regarded as only a collec-
tion of matter, with the information it contains emerging through ran-
dom interactions of matter?
All the scientific research carried out in the 20 th century, the results
of all the experiments and observations, show that life definitely does
not consist of matter alone. As the leading information theoretician and
biophysicist Hubert Yockey puts it: "Like all messages, the life message

is non-material but has an information content measurable in bits and
bytes." 133
The scientist Dean Overman says that "information contained in the ge-
netic code, like all information or messages, is not made of matter . . . The
meaning is not a property of the arrangement of the symbols or alphabet
of the code. The message or meaning in the genetic code is non-material
and cannot be reduced to a physical or chemical property." 134

Prof. Phillip Johnson says:
First, life consist not just of matter (chemicals) but of matter and informa-
tion. Second, information is not reducible to matter, but is a different kind
of "stuff" altogether. A theory of life thus has to explain not just the origin
of matter but also the independent origin of the information. Third com-
plex, specified information of the kind found in a book or a biological