Information Theory
Life Requires a Source of Information
The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells. It has been discovered that nowhere else can a higher statistical packing density of information be found.
TNA
Evolutionary scientists trying to get around the irreducible complexity of the genetic code keep trying to come up with simpler, more achievable alternatives to explain molecules-to-man evolution. The latest candidate for a pre-biotic “genetic code” is threose nucleic acid (TNA).
Three Types of Information
It is advantageous to consider a three-fold vertical division of types of information:
- Constructional/creative information: This includes all information that is used for the purpose of producing something.
- Operational information.
- Communication information: This is composed of all other kinds of information.
Life Is More Than Just Information
At the moment of death, the totality of DNA information is still present in all the cells, but the operational and communication information has disappeared. It is thus clear that there is another crucial difference between living beings and dead organisms.
Articles About Information Theory
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Oct. 9, 2016 from Answers Magazine
For more than a century Christians have looked for the scientific silver bullet that would destroy Darwinian evolution and prove biblical creation to be true.
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Book Chapter5.5 What Is Life? The Biblical View (OB20)Nov. 8, 2012 from Did God Use Evolution?
Up to this point, we emphasized that information is an essential characteristic of life.
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Book Chapter5.4 What Is Life? The Informational View (OB19)Nov. 1, 2012 from Did God Use Evolution?
Matter and energy are necessary aspects of living forms, but they do not fundamentally distinguish between living and inanimate systems.
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Book Chapter5.2 What Is Information? The Biblical View (OB18)Oct. 11, 2012 from Did God Use Evolution?
The aspects of information that we studied earlier are also found in the Bible.
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Book Chapter5.1 What Is Information? The View of Information Science (OB17)Oct. 4, 2012 from Did God Use Evolution?
The transfer of information is one of the fundamental principles of life.
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TNA Stirs Alphabet Soup, Returns EmptyJan. 21, 2012 from News to Know
TNA-world still doesn’t spell anything.
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Book ChapterInformation: Evidence for a Creator?June 24, 2010 from The New Answers Book 2
What if it could be shown through empirical science that the universe consists of more than just mass and energy?
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterLanguage: The Medium for Creating, Communicating, and Storing InformationJune 25, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
Man’s natural language is the most comprehensive as well as the most differentiated means of expression.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterThe Statistical View of InformationJune 18, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
Shannon’s definition of information entails only one minor aspect of the nature of information, as we will discuss at length.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterA Biblical Analogy of the Four Fundamental EntitiesJune 11, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
The question about the origin of matter and the energies we observe in action is already answered in the first verse of the Bible.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterThe Quantities Used for Evaluating Information and Their Application to the BibleJune 4, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
Let us now examine how the Bible addresses the six measures for quantitatively evaluating information (especially its semantics) .
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterThe Quality and Usefulness of Biblical InformationMay 21, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
According to biblical assertions all information given out by humans is evaluated by God.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterLife Requires a Source of InformationMay 14, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterQuestions Often Asked about the Information ConceptMay 7, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
A small selection of the frequently asked questions about information theory are now listed and answered briefly.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterSome Quantitative Evaluations of SemanticsApril 30, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
We can now begin to evaluate semantic information quantitatively, after having considered the essentials at the semantics level in the preceding chapters.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterThe Quality and Usefulness of InformationApril 23, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
To rise above Shannon’s information theory, it is necessary to define measures for semantic information which must be generally valid.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterThree Kinds of Transmitted InformationApril 16, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
If someone presents a model for explaining the origin of life, but he cannot say where the creative information characteristic of all life-forms came from, the crucial question remains unanswered.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterThe Three Forms in which Information AppearsApril 9, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
Information accosts us from all sides and presents itself over a wide range of manifestations.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterInformation in Living OrganismsApril 2, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
There is an extreme multiplicity of life-forms around us, and even a simple unicellular organism is much more complex and purposefully designed than anything that human inventiveness can produce.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterDelineation of the Information ConceptMarch 26, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
Information always plays a substitutionary role. The encoding of reality is a mental process.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterThe Five Levels of the Information ConceptMarch 19, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
The question is whether these pictures represent information or not.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterInformation Is a Fundamental EntityMarch 12, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
Many scientists therefore justly regard information as the third fundamental entity alongside matter and energy.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterPrinciples of Laws of NatureMarch 5, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
Through the natural sciences, the world around us is observed for the purpose of discovering the rules governing it.
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Semi-Technical Book ChapterPreliminary Remarks about the Concept of InformationFeb. 26, 2009 from In the Beginning Was Information
What is the reason that such a system can function?
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Magic, Information, and FaithFeb. 29, 2008
A recent post on the Daily Telegraph accuses creationists of believing in “magic,” but it fails to see the faith needed to believe in evolution.
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Semi-TechnicalSome evidence and hope that secular publishers may provide creation informationJune 27, 2007
The cracks are beginning to show in the monopoly that evolutionist have had on academic publications.
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Magazine ArticleTwo Heads Are Better Than One?Dec. 1, 2002, pp. 56–57
It’s often said that ‘two heads are better than one’. But, in the case of Sam and Ella, two heads aren’t so good.
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Magazine ArticleCopy ChallengeSept. 1, 2001, pp. 42–43
Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have embarked on a research project to create an artificial ‘housefly’ that can fly around in dangerous or small spaces, such as collapsed buildi
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Magazine ArticleBillionaire on Biological InformationJune 1, 2001, pp. 22–23
The most famous of all computer software gurus has recently acknowledged the brilliance of the programming in our bodies (without any hint of acknowledging the Programmer, so far).
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Feedback ArticleThat Depends on Your Definition of ‘Information’July 24, 2000 from Feedback
The ‘information’ argument is used by many creationists to show that particles-to-people evolution is impossible. Following is an attempt by a critic to discredit this argument, and our response.
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Magazine ArticleCreation’s Amazing ComputerSept. 1, 1996, pp. 24–25
‘Where’, questions the creationist, ‘would the information come from to effect such a transformation?
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Semi-Technical Research PaperInformation, Science and BiologyAug. 1, 1996, pp. 181–187
A rigorous analysis of the characteristics of information demonstrates that living things intrinsically reflect both the mind and will of their Creator.
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Magazine ArticleWhere’s the Intelligence?March 1, 1992, pp. 19–20
Most would acknowledge that as complexity of information and design increases, there has to be an increase in the intelligence and ability of the one who produces it.
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