I just came across a very interesting peace of 'information' which in a different way proves that design is the basic principle behind life.
Professor Gitt's Universal Laws for Information
1)It is impossible to set up, store, or transmit information without using a code.
2)It is impossible to have a code apart from a free and deliberate convention.
3)It is impossible to have information without a sender.
4)It is impossible that information can exist without having had a mental source.
5)It is impossible for information to exist without having been established voluntarily by a free will.
6)It is impossible for information to exist without all five hierarchical levels: statistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and apobetics (the purpose for which the information is intended, from the Greek apobeinon = result, success, conclusion).
7)It is impossible that information can originate in statistical processes.
and to this I will add: 8) DNA is information.
Jacques
Truth looks identical from every direction. The above are elementary axioms. My focus is on the Purpose of the information transfer in the Universe. Have you read NUjournal.net/choice.html?.
I will be travelling overseas until August 2001 and I will not be able to answer questions on this Forum until I return.
Tom