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| | {{cquote|A system performing a given basic function is irreducibly complex if it includes a set of well-matched, mutually interacting, non-arbitrarily individuated parts such that each part in the set is indispensable to maintaining the system's basic, and therefore original, function. The set of these indispensable parts is known as the irreducible core of the system. <ref>William Dembski, ''No Free Lunch'',(2001), p. 285. ISBN 0742512975</ref>}} | | {{cquote|A system performing a given basic function is irreducibly complex if it includes a set of well-matched, mutually interacting, non-arbitrarily individuated parts such that each part in the set is indispensable to maintaining the system's basic, and therefore original, function. The set of these indispensable parts is known as the irreducible core of the system. <ref>William Dembski, ''No Free Lunch'',(2001), p. 285. ISBN 0742512975</ref>}} |
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| − | Dr. [[Stephen C. Meyer]] argued that naturalistic explanations for the [[origin of life]] have failed and that inference to the best explanation for the origin of biological information is an intelligent cause. <ref>http://www.macrodevelopment.org/library/meyer.html</ref> In the peer reviewed biology journal [[Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington]] Dr. Meyer argues that no current materialistic [[theory of evolution]] can account for the origin of the information necessary to build novel animal forms and proposed an intelligent cause as the best explanation for the origin of biological information and the higher [[taxa]]. <ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2177</ref> The editor of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Dr. [[Richard Sternberg]], [[Smithsonian-Sternberg affair|came under intense scutiny and persecution for the aforementioned article]] published by Dr. Meyer. <ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2399</ref>
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| − | As aforely mentioned, creationist concur with intelligent design theorist in regards to an intelligent cause in regards to the origin of biological information and that the genetic code, genetic programs, and genetic information argue for an intelligent cause in regards the origins of living organisms. Dr. [[Werner Gitt]], former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology ([[Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt]], Braunschweig), described human beings as the most complex information processing systems on earth and estimated that the human body processed millions of times more information each day than is contained in all the world's libraries. <ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i4/humanbody.asp</ref> Dr. Gitt wrote in his work ''In the Beginning Was Information'' that “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>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1484094</ref>
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| − | 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>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref> 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>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html</ref>
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| − | 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:
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| | == Statements and Analogies == | | == Statements and Analogies == |