文档介绍：What is the ‘bottom line’ issue
when using the design argument?
THE MARVELOUS MESSAGE MOLECULE
INFORMATION: A MODERN SCIENTIFIC DESIGN ARGUMENT
Is it enough to point out the evidence of ‘intelligent design’ in the world? • What is the ‘bottom line’ issue when using the design argu-
ment? • Is the ‘plexity’ argument still valid? • What are other evidences of ‘design’? • What about ‘chaos theory’?
CLOSE PDF PROJECT 3:15 • DESIGN 1
The Marvelous ‘Message Molecule’
by Carl Wieland
First published in:
Creation 17(4):10-13
September-November 1995
When someone sends a message, something rather fascinating and mysterious gets passed along.
Let’s say Alphonse in Alsace wants to send the message, ‘Ned, the war is over. Al’. He dictates it
to a friend; the message has begun as patterns of pression (spoken words). His friend puts
it down as ink on paper and mails it to another, who puts it in a fax machine. The machine trans-
fers the message into a coded pattern of electrical impulses, which are sent down a phone line and
received at a remote Indian outpost where it is printed out in letters once again. Here the person
who reads the fax lights a campfire and sends the same message as a pattern of smoke signals. Old
Ned in Nevada, miles away, looks up and gets the exact message that was meant for him. Noth-
ing physical has been transmitted; n