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information is transferred); the actual material employed
is of no concern. Although information is essential for
life, information alone does not at all comprise a com-
plete description of life. 136

The fact that the genetic code contains non-material information
shows that evolutionists' dreams regarding the genetic code are un-
founded right from the outset. Their scenarios assume that matter
somehow organized itself in order to give rise to the genetic code and
genetic information. But since matter is unable to spontaneously pro-
duce that genetic code, all materialist explanations are totally
meaningless. Furthermore, the arrangement of the genet-
ic letters in DNA is of vital importance for life.
Nucleotides are meaningless on their own,
by coming together in particular se-
quence, they give rise to genes that
carry meaningful information that
significantly distinguishes DNA from

other structures seen in nature.
Prof. Phillip Johnson refers to this property of DNA in these
terms:
The important thing about DNA is not the chemicals but the information
in the software, just as the important thing about a computer program or
a book is the information content and not the physical medium in which
that information is recorded. … metabolism and reproduction cannot get
started until an enormous amount of complex information is already in
existence. 137
As Johnson states, the random combination of chem-
ical substances cannot establish the necessary con-
ditions for organisms to live and reproduce.