Ihave, for quite some while, considered why it is that in their arguments with evolutionists, creationists don't talk much more about 'information.' Why do I ask this? Simply because it is generally known and understood that information is not part of matter and this would seem to be an area in which the Christian Creationist holds several trump cards.
Evolutionists have developed some smart views on what matter is and it's potentialities (although they always assume it's presence at the beginning of time and will never be able to tell you where it came from), but many of them will agree, yes even now, that information and consciousness are not really part of matter. Yet, truthfully, they will tend to avoid the subject. The subject is a little tricky for them for they must assume that there is no God nor superior intelligence in the universe, yet 'information' obviously exists. Evolutionary astronomers, for instance, will want to say that at the time of the so-called 'big bang' there was only mass and energy - nothing else, but we are going to see that they cannot possibly be correct and we will arrive at that conclusion, and other conclusions, through using scientific laws alone.
Think about 'information' in this way: Suppose you had a super new computer but, for some reason, no operating system has been installed. So it has nothing like Windows or Linux which can render it useable for the average person. You would not be able to do much with that. But now let us assume that you go out and purchase a Windows operating system. You install that so the computer now has a program, or, 'intelligence' which effectively 'tells it' how to perform various tasks for you. So now it is supremely useable. A Windows O.S. is very large. I think that XP was about 3 gigabytes - that's big! I mean, that's a lot of information. But Vista is much bigger, I think that Vista Premium is closer to 15 gigabytes! I think they have made the very new Windows Seven a bit smaller. But those are huge programs of information. But if you weigh your computer after installing Windows XP or Vista, it won't even be a tiny bit heavier (as long as you remember to take out the CD after installation)! You have just installed a huge amount of information which, as we have noted, is very large in measure, yet you can't record any weight for it on the weighing scale. Ever wondered about that? Moreover, if after a week you delete the entire operating system which you have just installed, you will not be able to make your computer even a tiny bit lighter in weight...
Where am I going with this? The point we are making here is that information is not matter. Now there is a lot more to this than might be immediately apparent, but - to put it in a nutshell- evolutionary science cannot explain the presence of information in the universe. If you have read this far please let me encourage you to read our entire article. The article has been purposely written not to be 'heavy' or demanding but to be very accessible. It is here.
Robin A. Brace, January, 2010.
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UPDATE: From May, 2008 we are starting to discontinue our old My Christian World site. This has been a great little site with no ads or problems of any kind and it came free from our ISP (at the time, NTL, later being taken over by Virgin Media), but we simply no longer need that site to continue. We are phasing the site out gradually from April, 2008 but it could still last another 10 months or so.
So our main work is now on these sites:
Museltof Countercult and Apologetics (www.museltof.org.uk/)
We are happy to say that from Autumn 2006 this site is no longer on OurChurch.com web space but on our own puchased web space - this frees this site from the sometimes dreadful "Christian ads" which marred its pages at times. In the end, it just was not acceptable that a site warning of cults sometimes carried ads purchased by such cults!! However, we remain grateful to OurChurch.com for giving us a great start.
UK Apologetics(www.ukapologetics.net/)
A new site which we started developing from March, 2005. We have purchased this site space and this is now our main site. Even by April, 2006 this huge site contains almost 500 articles! (Update: In May, 2008 our site articles are closing-in on 900!) This has also become the top Apologetics resource in Europe in view of both its size and its huge number of 'hits.'
Witness to the Word (www.ukapologetics.net/witnessindex.htm) .
'Witness to the Word' is now included under our 'UK Apologetics' hosting server situation. The search engine on our UK Apologetics homepage also finds articles on this site.
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