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Like other books, this book you are Johnson says this about the origin of
reading is made up of paper and ink, DNA:
which carry the information. Paper It would be absurd to try to explain the
and ink are both material substances. literary quality or meaning of a book
Paper is made from cellulose, and ink as an emergent property of the phys-
from various chemicals. However, the ical qualities of its ink and paper. The
information in this book is not physical message comes from an author; ink
and does not have any material ori- and paper are merely the media.
gin. The source of the information in Similarly, the information written in
this book, as in all others, is the mind DNA is not the product of DNA. Who
of its author. or what is the author? 1
In addition, that mind also determines If a material substance contains infor-
how the paper and ink are to be used. mation, then that matter has been ar-
A book first takes shape in its author's ranged by an intellect possessing that
mind. The writer established a logic information. In this case, that intellect
and constructs sentences that are belongs to our Almighty Lord, Who
then given a material form, by using a created the entire universe out of
typewriter or a computer keyboard. nothing.
These letters then enter the printing
press and are turned into a book con- 1-Phillip E. Johnson, Defeating
sisting of paper and ink. Darwinism by Opening Minds,
Based on this analogy, Prof. Phillip InterVarsity Press, 1997, p. 73.