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'''Information''' is a message transmitted by a message sender and received and understood by a message receiver.
'''Information''' is a message transmitted by a message sender and received and understood by a message receiver.
Information can be considered to be the third [[fundamental quantity]] of the universe, after [[matter]] and [[energy]]. Information is a non-material entity, and can only arise from an intelligence.{{fact}}
Information can be considered to be the third [[fundamental quantity]] of the universe, after [[matter]] and [[energy]]. Information is a non-material entity, which some contest only arise from an intelligence, although others, committed to a materialistic view, disagree, yet offer no examples of information arising from non-intelligent sources.<ref>Musgrave, Ian, Baldwin, Rich, et. al., [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/information/infotheory.html Information Theory and Creationism] The TalkOrigins Archive, 14th July, 2005.</ref>
== The mediums of information ==
== The mediums of information ==
For example, the word <tt>gift</tt> in [[English]] means a present, wheres in [[German]] the same word <tt>gift</tt> means a poison.
For example, the word <tt>gift</tt> in [[English]] means a present, wheres in [[German]] the same word <tt>gift</tt> means a poison.
For information to be understood, the receiver of the information must know what the symbols represent.
For information to be understood, the receiver of the information must know what the symbols represent.
Information specialist Dr. Werner Gitt refers to the set of symbols as a ''code''. He says:
{{QuoteBox|A code is an essential requirement for establishing information. ...<br />It should be emphasised that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required. ...<br />A code system is always the result of a mental process...(it requires an intelligent origin or inventor). ...<br />There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.<ref>Gitt, pp. 64, 65, 67, 107.</ref>}}
== Levels of information ==
== Levels of information ==
Information scientist has defined five levels of information.<ref>Gitt, pages 50-82.</ref>
Information science has defined five levels of information.<ref>Gitt, pages 50-82.</ref>
=== Statistical ===
=== Statistical ===
=== Syntax ===
=== Syntax ===
Information must have syntax, which is the ''arrangement'' of symbols.
Information must have syntax, which is the ''arrangement'' of symbols to form a message.
Not all possible combination of symbols can actually carry meaning.
Not all possible combination of symbols can actually carry meaning.
=== Semantics ===
=== Semantics ===
Semantics is to do with the range of possible meanings of symbols.
Information must have meaning to the recipient.
Information must have meaning to the recipient.
If a syntactically-correct sequence of symbols does not have meaning, it is not information.
If a syntactically-correct sequence of symbols does not have meaning, it is not information.
=== Pragmatics ===
=== Pragmatics ===
Pragmatics is concerned with the context of the symbols.
Different contexts can result in different meanings for the same symbols.
Information has the potential to cause the recipient to take some action.
Information has the potential to cause the recipient to take some action.
=== Apobetics ===
=== Apobetics ===
Apobetics is to do with the purpose of the information.
== Measuring information ==
Whilst there is no measure for information, it is possible to compare two similar pieces of information to see which has the most information. For example, compare the following two sentences:<ref>Example taken from Lamb, 2007.</ref>
*She has a yellow vehicle.
*She has a yellow car.
The second sentence conveys more information than the first, because the second tells you not just she has a vehicle, but that the specific type of vehicle is a car.
But also note that the second sentence, although carrying more information, is shorter than the first sentence. Thus a measure of information at the ''statistical'' level bears little if any relationship to the amount of ''meaningful'' information.
== Origin of information ==
== Origin of information ==
Creation scientists claim that all "information" (here referring to signal type information) is the result of a will, and as information is not a property of matter, it has a non-material source.
Thus all information ultimately has its origin in intelligence.
Thus, they believe all information ultimately has its origin in a personal mind exercising free will,<ref>Gitt, page 113.</ref> an intelligence.<ref>Bates, Gary, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/551 SETI—coming in from the cold of space], ''Creation'' 26(3):48–50, June 2004.</ref>
==Law of Conservation of Information==
[[William Dembski]]'s [[Law of Conservation of Information]] states that information cannot be created by natural (non-intelligent) causes.<ref>Dembski, 1998.</ref>
== Information and creation ==
== Information and creation ==
Creationists use the science of information to argue that the information carried on the DNA of all living things must have had its origin in an intelligence (God), and could not have arisen through natural ([[materialism|materialistic]]) processes.
Creationists use the science of information to argue that the information carried on the DNA of all living things must have had its origin in an intelligence (God), and could not have arisen through natural ([[materialism|materialistic]]) processes.
According to the [[Theory of evolution|evolutionary]] view, the first living cell had only the information required for that cell to survive and reproduce.
As life evolved, living things acquired new organs and other features, such as [[bone]]s, scales, [[eye]]s, [[blood]], [[feather]]s, limbs, [[hair]], [[muscle]]s, and much more.
At a genetic level, this means that the evolving creatures had to acquire large amounts of new ''genetic information'' for these new organs.
However, evolutionists have been unable to produce more than a very few disputable examples of genetic information arising naturally.
== Legal Meaning ==
In legal terminology information is an accusatory document, filed by the prosecutor, detailing the charges against the defendant. An alternative to an indictment, it serves to bring a defendant to trial. [[Category:Legal Terms]]
== Bibliography ==
== Bibliography ==
* Dembski, William A., [http://www.arn.org/docs/dembski/wd_idtheory.htm Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information], Access Research Network, 1998.
* Gitt, Werner, ''In the Beginning was Information'', Christliche Literateur-Verbreitung e. V., Bielefield, Germany, 1997 (English edition).
* Gitt, Werner, ''In the Beginning was Information'', Christliche Literateur-Verbreitung e. V., Bielefield, Germany, 1997 (English edition).
* Gitt, Werner, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1533 Information, science and biology], ''Journal of Creation'' 10(2):181–187.
* Gitt, Werner, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1533 Information, science and biology], ''Journal of Creation'' 10(2):181–187.
* Sarfati, Jonathan, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4947 More or less information? / Has a recent experiment proved creation?].
* Lamb, Andrew, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4947 More or less information?], February 17, 2007
== References ==
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