Creation science
Creation science is a systematic attempt to show that scientific evidence is consistent with the account of Creation in the Bible— usually with a literal six-day-creation interpretation—rather than the theory of evolution.
Creation science is not accepted by most scientists either in terms of its claims[1] or as a science,[Citation Needed] but it is claimed by creation scientists that this is due mainly to the worldviews and preconceptions of the scientists, rather than on the basis of scientific evidence[Citation Needed].
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 [2], while a similar survey found that 93% of members of the United States National Academy of Sciences do not believe there is a God [3]
Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information
For more on the topic of the origin of biological information see:Intelligent design
Creationists and intelligent design advocates state the genetic code, genetic programs, and biological information argue for an intelligent cause in regards the origins question. [4][5][6]
Dr. Werner Gitt, former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), wrote that human beings are the most complex information processing systems on earth and Dr. Gitt estimated that the human body processed thousands of times more bits of information than all the information than is contained in the world’s libraries.[7]
Dr. Gitt has written several points regarding the origin of biological information:
- In his work In the Beginning Was Information Dr. Gitt stated 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.” [8]
- Dr. Gitt argued that the density and complexity of DNA information is millions of times larger than mankind's current technology and this means a supremely intelligent being was the author of this information.[9] Similarly Dr. Stephen C. Meyer in his 1996 essay The Origin of Life and the Death of Materialism wrote that "the information storage density of DNA, thanks in part to nucleosome spooling, is several trillion times that of our most advance computer chips.[10]
- Gitt stated that the author of the information encoded into the DNA molecule who constructed the molecular biomachines to encode, decode and run the cells was supremely intelligent.[11]
- Dr. Gitt asserted that because information is a nonmaterial entity and does not originate from matter, the author of biological information must be nonmaterial (spirit).[12]
Dr. Walt Brown concurs in regards to the supernatural origin of biological information and 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. [13] 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."[14]
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:
| “ | 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[15][16] | ” |
Notes and References
- ↑ 95% of scientists accept the theory of evolution. Robinson, B.A., Public beliefs about evolution and creation, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, May 7, 2007.
- ↑ http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/97su/faith.html
- ↑ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/full/394313a0.html
- ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
- ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/infotheory.asp
- ↑ http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=118
- ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html
- ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1484094
- ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
- ↑ http://www.arn.org/docs/meyer/sm_origins.htm
- ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
- ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
- ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
- ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
- ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742
- ↑ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958
