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Study Section 16: information: Intelligent Design

16.1 Connect

The English alphabet is composed of 26 letters. The letters are symbols which stand for
sounds a person can make with his mouth. Some symbols can represent multiple sounds,
which increases the difficulty of language. The English language also has punctuation so a
person reading the letters can know how to emphasize the sounds and when to break
between thoughts. Note, as you read these sentences, there is approprate spacing between
the symbols, otherwiseitwouldbedifficulttoread. There are 12 rules of grammar that must be followed
for the structure of putting the symbols together to make total sense. Most languages require a subject
and predicate. In a sentence, a person, place or thing usually is doing something. So when you think
about it, languages are quite complex in their design. They are not simply matter – ink on a piece of
paper. The 26 symbols or letters must be placed in the exact correct order to make an intelligable word,
and then words must be arranged in the proper order within a sentence to create a thought that is
transmittable to another person.

As we consider a language, we must ask the question, isn’t life more complex than a language? What
makes a living being different from a rock?

16.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to explain how evolutionists believe in reductionism and define
what it means.

2. The student should be able to explain how the laws of nature validate that the creation of life
was completed on the day the Lord rested.

3. The student should be able to describe how information differs from matter and how it is an integral
component to explain life.

4. The student should be able to define what DNA, a gene, chromosome are and how protein synthesis
occurs.

16.3 The Story of Life

What makes a living organism different from a rock? You may say, a living organism is living,
and a rock is dead. Actually, definitions of “living” can be of two different types in the
scientific world. Molecular biologists say that something is living because it possesses genes.
The evolutionists believe that one day billions of years ago, a naked gene (a packet of
information) randomly was formed from chemicals floating
in some chemical soup. This gene had two important
properties: it could reproduce by copying itself and it could engage in
some sort of chemical activity similar to eating. As time passed,
mistakes were made in the copying process that made the gene
become better at eating and especially reproducing. Those mistakes

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