In the Beginning was Information

Genetic algorithms: The so-called “genetic algorithms” is yetanother way of trying to explain how information could originatein matter [F5, M4]. The combination of words is deliberatelychosen from biology and numerical mathematics to suggest thatevolutionary events are described mathematically. But what isactually involved, is a purely numerical method used for theoptimisation of dynamic processes. This method can be used tofind, by repeated approximations, the maximum value of ananalytic function numerically (e. g. f(x,y) = yx - x 4 ), or the optimalroute of a commercial traveller. The effects of mutation and selectioncan thus be simulated by computer. Using predetermined samplesof bits (sequences of noughts and ones), each position is regardedas a gene. The sample is then modified (mutated) by allowingvarious genetic operators to influence the bit string (e. g. crossover).A “fitness function”, assumed for the process of evolution, isthen applied to each result. It should be pointed out that thisgenetic algorithm is purely a numerical calculation method, anddefinitely not an algorithm which describes real processes in cells.Numerical methods cannot describe the origin of information.Evolutionary models for the origin of the genetic code: We findproposals for the way the genetic code could have originated, invery many publications [e. g. O2, E2, K1]. But up to the presenttime nobody has been able to propose anything better than purelyimaginary models. It has not yet been shown empirically howinformation can arise in matter, and, according to Theorem 11, thiswill never happen.6.5 Scientists against EvolutionFortunately, the number of scientists who repudiate evolutionaryviews and dilemmas, is increasing. This number includes internationallyrenowned experts, of whom some quotations follow. In“New Scientist”, the British astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle, one oftoday’s best known cosmologists, expresses his concern about thecustomary representations under the title “The big bang in astronomy”[H4, p 523+524]:104“But the interesting quark transformations are almost immedi-