Norbert Weiner, MIT Mathematician and Father of Cybernetics
“Information is Information, neither matter nor energy. No materialism that fails to take account of this can survive the present day.”
Does the natural universe contain embedded information? Yes. DNA represents both stored information and communicated information. It represents a design, or blueprint, or instructions, for life to be created. Like a musical score to music, it tells what notes to play, when, and for how long.
In all of human experience, information comes from intelligence, and communication comes from mind and not merely matter. Patterns may occur naturally in nature (snowflake, wave patterns on sand), but information and communication do not.
This is the atheist's conundrum. Based on what we know empirically about information and communication of information, inference to the most likely cause suggest there is a mind and intelligent cause behind life on Earth.
Anyone want to hazard a guess Who this might be?
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