Information part three - the LIE
Preface: To have a complete and logical belief system concerning origins, you need to have a narrative that explains the beginning of all time and matter. In other words, where does all the stuff come from? Creationists do have an explanation and a narrative. God created all things and all time. He recorded this in Genesis so that mankind would have a record of the events. In fact, He reveals not only how things came to be but why things came to be. The Young Earth Creationist has an account of beginnings as a guidebook to help understand the evidence available in the world around us. The numerous fulfilled prophecies in the Bible and the millions of lives changed by the Spirit of God in addition to the testimony of Jesus Christ and the prophets within the Bible give us evidence that the Bible is a reliable source of truth and a Creator God's message to mankind. It just so happens that evidence seen in the fossil record and within organisms and in the heavens fit nicely into the Bible narrative.
Those who prefer not to believe that God created have a lot of unexplained problems, but three words represent three massive problems they must deal with: Life, Information and Energy. They do make a very nice acronym, no?
Life: The structure and composition of a living frog and a dead frog are alike. What makes the living frog alive? What exactly is life and where did it come from? Naturalist materialistic scientists have no good answer for this. Pay attention to what they say about it for they do not have an actual explanation. Anything they say will boil down to "by some means."
Van Helmont tried to "prove" that living mice sprung from dirty underwear and wheat left in a bowl for three weeks. Science can be far away from truth. Pasteur once and for all proved that all life comes from life - Omne vivum ex ovo - in 1864. We call this the Law of Biogenesis.
Since evolution depends on chance to advance life forms, what explanation has it for the beginning of life? Particularly since science has "proven" that life could not have come from non-life.
Information: We will talk on this in the post following the quick look at energy.
Energy: Since the entire Universe is a story of energy being converted to entropy, who or what supplied the original energy, much of which is now entropy? Some postulate a Big Bang as a beginning to all things, but an explosion requires energy and matter to occur. To postulate that a big explosion that came from nothing and nowhere and with no cause as the beginning of all things and all life is tantamount to believing in magic.
That a superior being could conceive of and create both everything and nothing and create time is far more logical than the idea that everything just magically sprung into being. That the Universe and all biologicals show evidence of consistency, logic and design is evidence of a Creator, not a chance event.
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What is Information? I presented the dictionary definition in a previous post and followed up with a sequel. Let us begin part three with another analogy to help those still struggling to grasp the concept.
Suppose we have one of those little notepads and an ink pen. Suppose you would like a shopping list to take to the store and I know a few things that need to be picked up. Well, that notepad and that ink pen are sitting on the kitchen table. According to the way naturalistic materialistic scientists think of things, that list is going to write itself. But it won't. You can wait a thousand years. The ink pen will dry up and the notepad crumble to dust, if they aren't tossed into a trash can first. But that list will not magically appear. If you come to get your list, you will find a blank notepad and an unused pen, which will tell you nothing about what to get at the store.
If I put the notepad and pen on a weigh scale, I will get a reading. For the sake of argument, let's say they weigh 0.7 pounds. Now suppose I write out a shopping list on the note pad:
Tea
Parmesan Cheese
Dog Chewies
Can of WD-40
Bananas
Now you know what to get at the store. Guess what? If I put the notepad and the ink pen back on the weigh scale, it will still weigh 0.7 pounds. I did not add significant weight or mass to the system that is ink pen and note pad. I merely added information. But now the notepad is a message that transmits information. What changed? An intelligent (somewhat, since it was me!) source added information. Information, which has no apparent weight and is cannot be defined as being material, has nevertheless changed the system that is notepad and ink pen and made it considerably more complex.
What happened is that an intelligent being transmitted intelligence and transferred it into the material world. I did not create or destroy any matter and there was no apparent change to the physical composition of pen and notepad. But I used my own energy to input information into this system.
Evolutionists have no explanation for information. They would have you believe that lobbing a bomb into a cornfield would produce a three bedroom house fully equipped with wiring and plumbing. They would have you believe something even more ridiculous, that existence itself just popped up with no cause.
Now, back to the pen and notepad. A great forensic scientist might find a fingerprint on the pen that matches mine and therefore identify me as the writer. Perhaps I left a bit of myself in terms of that print behind, and perhaps a bit of liquid from the ink evaporated into the air, thus changing the system ever so slightly. In any event, my fingerprint is evidence that the information left on the notepad was produced by a person, me.
DNA. The Bible. The remarkable fine-tuning of natural law to allow for our existence and, in fact, logical laws. These are evidences for a Designer.
You naturalistic materialists out there, what is your explanation for the very complex information found in every cell of your body, in every living thing?! Do you have anything that doesn't sound like a fairy tale?
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LIE - Life, Information and Energy. Naturalistic Materialistic scientists cannot lie their way past these three gigantic obstacles to the fairy tale that is macroevolution and a natural explanation for existence as we now know it.
Those who prefer not to believe that God created have a lot of unexplained problems, but three words represent three massive problems they must deal with: Life, Information and Energy. They do make a very nice acronym, no?
Life: The structure and composition of a living frog and a dead frog are alike. What makes the living frog alive? What exactly is life and where did it come from? Naturalist materialistic scientists have no good answer for this. Pay attention to what they say about it for they do not have an actual explanation. Anything they say will boil down to "by some means."
Van Helmont tried to "prove" that living mice sprung from dirty underwear and wheat left in a bowl for three weeks. Science can be far away from truth. Pasteur once and for all proved that all life comes from life - Omne vivum ex ovo - in 1864. We call this the Law of Biogenesis.
Since evolution depends on chance to advance life forms, what explanation has it for the beginning of life? Particularly since science has "proven" that life could not have come from non-life.
Information: We will talk on this in the post following the quick look at energy.
Energy: Since the entire Universe is a story of energy being converted to entropy, who or what supplied the original energy, much of which is now entropy? Some postulate a Big Bang as a beginning to all things, but an explosion requires energy and matter to occur. To postulate that a big explosion that came from nothing and nowhere and with no cause as the beginning of all things and all life is tantamount to believing in magic.
That a superior being could conceive of and create both everything and nothing and create time is far more logical than the idea that everything just magically sprung into being. That the Universe and all biologicals show evidence of consistency, logic and design is evidence of a Creator, not a chance event.
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What is Information? I presented the dictionary definition in a previous post and followed up with a sequel. Let us begin part three with another analogy to help those still struggling to grasp the concept.
Suppose we have one of those little notepads and an ink pen. Suppose you would like a shopping list to take to the store and I know a few things that need to be picked up. Well, that notepad and that ink pen are sitting on the kitchen table. According to the way naturalistic materialistic scientists think of things, that list is going to write itself. But it won't. You can wait a thousand years. The ink pen will dry up and the notepad crumble to dust, if they aren't tossed into a trash can first. But that list will not magically appear. If you come to get your list, you will find a blank notepad and an unused pen, which will tell you nothing about what to get at the store.
If I put the notepad and pen on a weigh scale, I will get a reading. For the sake of argument, let's say they weigh 0.7 pounds. Now suppose I write out a shopping list on the note pad:
Tea
Parmesan Cheese
Dog Chewies
Can of WD-40
Bananas
Now you know what to get at the store. Guess what? If I put the notepad and the ink pen back on the weigh scale, it will still weigh 0.7 pounds. I did not add significant weight or mass to the system that is ink pen and note pad. I merely added information. But now the notepad is a message that transmits information. What changed? An intelligent (somewhat, since it was me!) source added information. Information, which has no apparent weight and is cannot be defined as being material, has nevertheless changed the system that is notepad and ink pen and made it considerably more complex.
What happened is that an intelligent being transmitted intelligence and transferred it into the material world. I did not create or destroy any matter and there was no apparent change to the physical composition of pen and notepad. But I used my own energy to input information into this system.
Evolutionists have no explanation for information. They would have you believe that lobbing a bomb into a cornfield would produce a three bedroom house fully equipped with wiring and plumbing. They would have you believe something even more ridiculous, that existence itself just popped up with no cause.
Now, back to the pen and notepad. A great forensic scientist might find a fingerprint on the pen that matches mine and therefore identify me as the writer. Perhaps I left a bit of myself in terms of that print behind, and perhaps a bit of liquid from the ink evaporated into the air, thus changing the system ever so slightly. In any event, my fingerprint is evidence that the information left on the notepad was produced by a person, me.
DNA. The Bible. The remarkable fine-tuning of natural law to allow for our existence and, in fact, logical laws. These are evidences for a Designer.
You naturalistic materialists out there, what is your explanation for the very complex information found in every cell of your body, in every living thing?! Do you have anything that doesn't sound like a fairy tale?
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LIE - Life, Information and Energy. Naturalistic Materialistic scientists cannot lie their way past these three gigantic obstacles to the fairy tale that is macroevolution and a natural explanation for existence as we now know it.