More than Matter

Stephen Meyer going at it hammer and tongs:

Many scientists have found it difficult to relinquish an exclusive reliance upon the more traditional scientific categories of matter an energy. As George Williams (himself an evolutionary biologist) notes, “Evolutionary biologists have failed to realize that they work with two more or less incommensurable domains: that of information and that of matter. . . . The gene is a package of information, not an object. The pattern of base pairs in a DNA molecule specifies the gene. But the DNA molecule is the medium, it’s not the message.”

Yet this recognition begs deeper questions. What does it mean when we find information in natural objects–living cells–that we did not ourselves design or create?

What would we do if we landed on Saturn and discovered a 4000 page, leather bound book written in an other planetary language? Search for Saturnalian cows, yes. But according to what materialistic evolutionary biologists say they believe, we ought to assume that book randomly evolved. You know, give it a few billion years and there it is. Of course they don’t really believe it. So they would study it in order to figure out who wrote it and what it tells us about them. This is what DNA is. Instead of landing on a new planet, we’ve delved in the world of a cell and found a beautifully complex package of information, the blue prints for living organisms, prints drawn up by an artist-builder-poet-creator.

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