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Chapter 16: information = Intelligent Design
Connect…
The English alphabet is composed of 26 letters. The letters are symbols that stand for sounds a person
can make with their 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 appropriate spacing between the symbols, otherwiseitwouldbedifficulttoread. 12 rules of
grammar must be followed for the structure of putting the symbols together to make total sense. Most
languages require a subject and a 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 intelligible 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?
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, and chromosomes are and how protein
synthesis occurs.
The Lesson ...
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) was randomly formed from chemicals
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