In the Beginning was Information

A corollary of Theorem 26 is:Theorem 27: Any model for the origin of life (and of information)based solely on physical and/or chemical processes, is inherentlyfalse.In their school textbook R. Junker and S. Scherer establish a basictype that must have been “ready-made” [J3]. This result, whichrequires the information content of living beings to be completeright from the beginning, is biologically sound. The derived theoremsabout the nature of information fit this model.6.4 Materialistic Representations and Models of theOrigin of Biological InformationThe question “How did life originate?” which interests us all, isinseparably linked to the question “Where did the informationcome from?”. Since the findings of James D. Watson (*1928) andFrancis H. C. Crick (*1916), it was increasingly realised by contemporaryresearchers that the information residing in the cells isof crucial importance for the existence of life. Anybody who wantsto make meaningful statements about the origin of life, would beforced to explain how the information originated. All evolutionaryviews are fundamentally unable to answer this crucial question.The philosophy that life and its origin are purely material phenomena,currently dominates the biological sciences. Note the words ofsome authors who support this view:Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744 – 1829), a French zoologist andphilosopher, wrote: “Life is nothing but a physical phenomenon.All life features originate in mechanical, physical, and chemicalprocesses which are based on the properties of organic matter itself”(Philosophie zoologique, Paris, 1809, Vol 1).The German microbiologist R. W. Kaplan holds a similar materialisticview [K1]: “Life is effected by the different parts of a systemwhich work together in a certain way ... Life can be completelyexplained in terms of the properties of these parts and their99