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Although a belief in God, does not automatically imply a belief in creationisim, it is interesting to note that a poll among United States scientists showed that approximately 55% of scientists believed there is a God <ref> http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/97su/faith.html</ref>, while a similar survey found that 93% of members of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences]] do not believe there is a God <ref> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/full/394313a0.html</ref>
Although a belief in God, does not automatically imply a belief in creationisim, it is interesting to note that a poll among United States scientists showed that approximately 55% of scientists believed there is a God <ref> http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/97su/faith.html</ref>, while a similar survey found that 93% of members of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences]] do not believe there is a God <ref> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/full/394313a0.html</ref>
Creation scientists and [[intelligent design]] advocates state the [[genetic code]], [[genetic program]]s, and [[biological information]] argue for an intelligent cause in regards the origins question.<ref name="waltbrown-scientificcreation">Dr. [[Walt Brown]], Center For Scientific Creation, [http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html Codes, Programs, and Information]</ref><ref>[[Answers in Genesis]], [http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/infotheory.asp Information Theory Questions and Answers]</ref><ref>[[William Dembski]], [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=118 Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information]</ref>
[[Image:Stephen Meyer.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Dr. [[Stephen Meyer]] published an article favoring [[intelligent design]] in a peer reviewed science journal which had traditionally only published material advocating the evolutionary position.]]
Dr. [[Walt Brown]] states the genetic material that controls the biological processes of life is coded information and that human experience tells us that [[codes]] are created only by the result of intelligence and not merely by processes of nature. <ref name="waltbrown-scientificcreation" /> Dr. Brown also asserts that the "information stored in the genetic material of all life is a complex program. Therefore, it appears that an unfathomable intelligence created these genetic programs."<ref name="waltbrown-scientificcreation" />
To support his view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of [[David Abel]] and Professor [[Jack Trevors]] who wrote the following:
{{cquote|No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In [[computer science]], we call it a "program." Another name for [[computer software]] is an "[[algorithm]]." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even [[Mycoplasmal]] genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed? - David L. Abel and Jack T. Trevors, “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and Their Relevance to Biopolymeric Information,” Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling, Vol. 2, 11 August 2005, page 8<ref>Dr. [[Walt Brown]], Center For Scientific Creationism, [http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742 Notes and References: Codes, Programs, and Information]</ref><ref>PubMed Central (PMC), [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958 Three subsets of sequence complexity and their relevance to biopolymeric information by David L Abel1 and Jack T Trevors]</ref>}}
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