Does the information in DNA point to an intelligent designer?
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Whosoever Will, The Scientist Who Had to Believe: Wilder-Smith's question was simple: where does the information come from? The materialist answer, that random chemical interactions over sufficient time can generate biological information, is not a scientific answer. It is a philosophical commitment dressed in scientific language. No experiment has demonstrated the spontaneous generation of specified biological information from non-living chemistry. The second law of thermodynamics (entropy) describes the universal tendency of closed systems toward disorder, not toward increasing specified complexity. Wilder-Smith spent his career making this argument with the precision of a chemist who had actually done the math. The evolutionary response, that living systems are open systems receiving energy from the sun, does not resolve the problem. Sunlight falling on a pile of bricks does not produce a house. Energy without information produces chaos, not organization. You need not only energy but a blueprint, a code, a plan: to direct energy toward specified complexity. The blueprint for every living thing is DNA. And Wilder-Smith's point, made two decades before the intelligent design movement formalized it, is that the existence of a biological code requires a coder.
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This answer is the short form. The argument is made at length in The Scientist Who Had to Believe: The Central Argument: Information Cannot Organize Itself.