Evolutionists claim that life arose by random mutation and natural selection. While numerous holes in this “theory” have been exposed time and again across the scientific spectrum, perhaps the greatest unmasking has come from the fields of molecular biology and genetics. Intersecting these fields is the science of information, which by itself poses overwhelming problems for any concept that relies on randomness and chance outside of intelligence. This presentation will walk you through the different ideas of what information is, and how its presence in the biological world is an insurmountable hurdle for evolution to overcome.

1. Information Theory & the
Demise of Darwinism
Fred Williams
B.S. Electrical Engineering

3. Just Matter & Energy?

5. John Wheeler, famous physicist who coined the term
“black hole”, wrote that the universe has three parts:
First, “Everything is Particles,”
second, “Everything is Fields,”
and third, “Everything is information.”

6. “Information is information,
not matter or energy.”
Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
… the founder of cybernetics

7. ❖Matter
❖Energy
❖Information

8. How much Does Information Weigh?

9. SETI – Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
“We (humans) are the
products of a long series
of biological accidents.”
Carl Sagan

11. What is Information?

12. What is Information?
Websters: ‘The communication or reception
of knowledge or intelligence’
Wikipedia: ‘Information is the resolution of
uncertainty’

13. History of Information Theory
Claude Shannon: The reduction of
uncertainty between sender and receiver
William Dembski: Complex Specified
Information
Werner Gitt: Universal Information (statistics,
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, apobetics)
Royal Truman: Coded Information Systems

14. COMPLEX SPECIFIED INFORMATION
Dembski: We need to show that it is
improbably (i.e. complex) and suitably
patterned (i.e. specified)
Specified but NOT complex
Specified AND Complex!

15. COMPLEX SPECIFIED INFORMATION

16. COMPLEX SPECIFIED INFORMATION

17. Apobetics (purpose)
Pragmatics (action)
Semantics
Syntax
Statistics (Shannon)
UNIVERSAL INFORMATION (GITT)
SLI 4: Universal information can only
be produced by an intelligent sender

18. Shannon Information
Syntax Semantics
Purpose

19. WHAT IS SHANNON INFORMATION?

20. WHAT IS SHANNON INFORMATION?

21. SHANNON UNCERTAINTY (ENTROPY)

22. Randomness
Entropy

23. SHANNON UNCERTAINTY

24. 0 1
00 01 01 11
000 001 010 011 100 101 110 111
Log2 (2) = 1 bit
Log2 (4) = 2 bits
Log2 (8) = 3 bits

25. SHANNON UNCERTAINTY (ENTROPY)
H = 0 H = 1.75 H = 2

26. 1
2
3

27. SHANNON ENTROPY ~ GIBBS ENTROPY

29. ❖ Many creationists & evolutionists confuse Uncertainty
with Information.
❖ Shannon wrote an engineering paper on maximum
throughput through a channel, so naturally such
mathematics would be agnostic to the message
content (meaning).
❖ A year later Shannon co-authored a book with Warren
Weaver and wrote that meaning, action, and purpose
were implied in their work!
“LEVEL A: How accurately can the symbols of communication be
transmitted? (The technical problem.)
LEVEL B. How precisely do the transmitted symbols convey the desired
meaning? (The semantic problem.)
LEVEL C. How effectively does the received meaning affect conduct in
the desired way? (The effectiveness problem.)” – Shannon/Weaver 1949
Shannon Information
Syntax Semantics
Purpose

30. ❖ Information is NOT Uncertainty (H)!
Hbefore Hafter
❖ Information is the REDUCTION of
Uncertainty!
R = Hbefore - Hafter

31. ❖ NOISE = randomization = higher uncertainty
❖ What is the opposite of NOISE? →
Order, Information, Meaning
Hbefore Hafter
R = Hbefore - Hafter Hbefore ~ Hafter
INFORMATION = Hbefore - Hafter = 0!

32. ❖ NOISE = randomization = higher entropy
❖ NOISE is the opposite of Order, Information,
Meaning
Hbefore Hafter
R = Hbefore - Hafter Hbefore ~ Hafter

33. ❖ NOISE increases ENTROPY!
❖ NOISE can’t fix NOISE!
Hbefore Hafter
R = Hbefore - Hafter Hbefore ~ Hafter
INFORMATION = Hbefore - Hafter = 0!

34. Hbefore Hafter
R = Hbefore - Hafter Hbefore ~ Hafter
INFORMATION = Hbefore - 0 = Hbefore
Information is
The Reduction of Uncertainty

35. The Reduction of Uncertainty

36. The Reduction of Uncertainty

37. The Reduction of Uncertainty

38. TEST TIME!

39. Hbefore Hafter
INFORMATION OR NOISE?
NO INFORMATION!

40. INFORMATION OR NOISE?

41. INFORMATION OR NOISE?
Noise: U.S.
Information: Europe!

45. Information Theory
Claude Shannon: The
reduction of uncertainty
between sender and receiver
William Dembski: Complex Specified Information
Werner Gitt: Universal Information (statistics, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, apobetics)
Royal Truman: Coded Information Systems

46. What is Information?
Websters: ‘The communication or reception
of knowledge or intelligence’
Wikipedia: ‘Information is the resolution of
uncertainty’ [Shannon]
Shannon Information
Syntax Semantics
Purpose

47. The Golden Plover
➢ Migrates from Alaska to
Hawaii (2500 miles)
➢ Flight takes 88 hours (3
days, four nights)
➢ Puts on additional 50% of weight (about 70 grams)
before embarking
➢ Converts 0.6% of body weight per flight hour into
motion and heat

48. At this rate, all fuel (body fat) would have been
exhausted 500 miles short of Hawaii!
(82.2g body weight would be needed)

51. Charles Darwin offered the following test for his theory:
"If it could be proved that any part of the structure of
any one species had been formed for the exclusive good
of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for
such could not have been produced through natural
selection.”
On the Origin of Species (1859), Chapter 6: Difficulties of the Theory
Symbiosis

52. Suzanne Simard discovered that
“trees send warning signals about
environmental change, search for
kin, and transfer their nutrients to
neighboring plants before they die.”

53. Information vs Evolution
“In all the reading I’ve done in
the life-sciences literature, I’ve
never found a mutation that
added information. The NDT says
not only that such mutations
must occur, they must also be
probable enough for a long
sequence of them to lead to
macroevolution.” – Dr Lee Spetner, PhD in
Phsyics, MIT

54. • 453,732 “mutation” hits
• Only 186 were “beneficial”
• These 186 when examined closely resulted in the
loss of some function (loss of information)
Literature on “beneficial” Mutations

55. Dawkins Stumped

56. SICKLE CELL TRAIT
Evolutionists desperate for an information-adding mutation in nature
“People with just one copy of this gene
are 29% less likely to get malaria, while
people with two copies enjoy a 93%
reduction in risk. And this gene variant
causes, at worst, a mild anemia,
nowhere near as debilitating as sickle-
cell disease.” – Beneficial Mutations Happening
Now, Bigthink.com (popular humanist website)

58. NYLON EATING BACTERIA
The Evolutionary Story:
• In 1975, Japanese researchers found
some bacteria living in a pond next to
a nylon-producing plant that could
digest nylon.
• Nylon wasn’t invented until 1935, so
there would be no reason
whatsoever for a bacterium to be able
to digest nylon before it was invented.
• Thus, in a mere 40 years, a new gene
had evolved, allowing the bacteria to
digest something they otherwise
could not digest.
Evolutionists desperate for an information adding example in nature

59. • Arthrobacteria KI72 bacteria does NOT digest
nylon. They digest broken-down bits of nylon
molecules!
• The ability to digest nylon waste products is
incredibly common in bacteria and other organisms
from a diverse set of environments.
NYLON EATING BACTERIA
Our analyses indicate that nylonase
genes are abundant, come in many
diverse forms, are found in a great
number of organisms [355 bacteria,
1800 organisms total], and these
organisms are found within a great
number of natural environments.
- Sal Cordova and John Sanford
Evolutionists desperate for an information adding example in nature

60. Wiki: Nylon-eating Bacteria:
“This discovery led geneticist Susumu Ohno to
speculate that the gene for one of the
enzymes…had come about from the
combination of a gene duplication event with
a frameshift mutation.[4] Ohno suggested that
many unique new genes have evolved this way.
A 2007 paper led by Seiji Negoro of
the University of Hyogo, Japan, suggested that
in fact no frameshift mutation was involved in
the evolution of the 6-aminohexanoic acid
hydrolase.[5] However, many other genes have
been discovered which did evolve by gene
duplication followed by a frameshift mutation
affecting at least part of the gene.[citation needed]
GENE DUPLICATION

63. GENE DUPLICATION
Twice the Information?
IDENTICAL!

64. GENE DUPLICATION
Twice the Information? NO!
Software
Switching Logic
Added
Information

65. GENE DUPLICATION
Twice the Information?

66. GENE DUPLICATION
As Co-op (split the work)

67. GENE DUPLICATION
As Co-op (split the work)
IBM Sysplex Timer
Mainframe Mainframe

68. DNA Encrypts Multiple Codes!
Bill Gates: “DNA is like a computer program, but
far, far more advanced than any software we’ve
ever created.”

71. Mutation
“The fact that the genetic code can
simultaneously write two kinds of
information means that many DNA
changes that appear to alter protein
sequences may actually cause disease
by disrupting gene control programs or
even both mechanisms simultaneously”
Genome scientist Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulus

72. When DNA encrypts 12
codes…
→ A rare beneficial mutation has
to not break functionality of the
other 11 codes!

73. “As a biochemist I became skeptical about
Darwinism when I was confronted with the
extreme intricacy of the genetic code and its
many most intelligent strategies to code,
decode, and protect its information.”
Marcos Eberlin, Ph.D., founder of the Thomson Mass
Spectromety Laboratory and member of the National
Academy of Sciences in Brazil

75. Chromosome 2 “Fusion”
Claim: All great apes have 24 pairs of
chromosomes. Two fused together in the past to
arrive at 23 pairs on humans.
Evidence:
➢ The correspondence of chromosome 2 to two ape
chromosomes. – “near-identical DNA sequences”
➢ The presence of a vestigial centromere.
➢ The presence of vestigial telomeres.

76. Ape Human
Vestigial
centromeres?
Vestigial
telomeres?
Chromosome 2 “Fusion” (Allegedly)

77. Vestigial
telomeres?
Gene DDX11L2:
FULLY FUNCTIONAL!
Binding Switch

78. Dr. Tompkins concludes:
“Functional genes do not arise by the
mythical fusing of telomeres. The
alleged fusion site is not a degenerate
fusion sequence but is and, since
creation, has been a functional feature
in an important gene.”

82. Kenneth Miller’s analogy: “I
ran your papers through a
program that looks for unusual
matching strings. You guys
misspelled the same six words
in the same six ways. And when
you have matching mistakes,
there is no other explanation
other than a common ancestor
for the paper.”

83. “Broken” pseudogene

84. pseudogenes that have been
suitably investigated often
exhibit functional roles

85. The impact of a beneficial mutation on the
genome is akin to taking a $10 bill from
Nolan Arenado’s $260 million Contract!
Genetic Load

86. Math + Evolution = 0
Unaffected Offspring = 2e9
Required Offspring = 16,000
Mutation Rate = 9 per person

87. Evolutionist Dr Dan Graur, molecular biology,
argued that if most of the human genome is
functional, each human female needed to
make 10^35 children to prevent human
genomic degeneration. Graur concluded that
therefore the human genome must be about
90% junk.

88. A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism
“We are skeptical of claims for the ability of
random mutation and natural selection to
account for the complexity of life. Careful
examination of the evidence for Darwinian
theory should be encouraged.”

89. “Evolution makes predictions, creation
cannot”
Famous evolutionist J.B.S. Haldane in 1949
predicted that evolution could never
produce “various mechanisms, such as the
wheel and magnet, which would be useless
till fairly perfect.”

91. The Giraffe
➢ Heart weighs over 24 pounds
and pumps 16 gallons a
minute
➢ Special one-way, back-flow
preventer valves in the neck
to regulate the flow of blood
to the head.
➢ Blood vessels in the giraffe's
head are very elastic
➢ Blood vessels near feet are
thicker and much less elastic

92. To suppose that the eye,
with all its inimitable
contrivances for adjusting
the focus to different
distances, for admitting
different amounts of light,
and for the correction of
spherical and chromatic
aberration, could have
formed by natural
selection, seems, I freely
confess, absurd in the
highest degree possible.
- Charles Darwin

94. Darwin: “Language slowly and unconsciously
developed by many steps [from primitive language
consisting of grunts]” (Darwin, 1871, p. 55).
ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE

95. People with least complex cultures have sophisticated
languages, with complex grammar and large vocabularies,
can name and discuss anything that occurs in the sphere
occupied by their speaker…the oldest language that can
reasonably be reconstructed is already modern,
sophisticated, and complete from an evolutionary point of
view.
(Simpson, G.G. 1966. The biological nature of man. Science 152:476–477.)
ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE

96. MIT professor Noam Chomsky (1972): “Many
attempts have been made to determine an
evolutionary origin of language, and all have failed”.
ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE

97. SIGNAL RECOGNITION

98. Shared Object
Process
2
Process
1
Process
5
Mutex
SOFTWARE MUTEX

99. FERTILIZATION
Sea Urchin
Tripneustes ventricosus

100. ➢ “Fast block” – Electrical: The resting
membrane potential across the egg
changes from about −70 to +10 mVolts
within 1-3 seconds after fertilization.
➢ “Slow block” – Mechanical: Cortical
granules release their contents into the
space between the egg's cell
membrane and its outer coating,
creating a hard envelope that sperm
can't get through. Lasts about a minute
to remove all the remaining sperm
from the egg.
FERTILIZATION
Prevention of Polyspermy
NAADP and InsP3 play distinct roles at fertilization in starfish oocytes
Developmental Biology Volume 294, Issue 1, 1 June 2006, pp 24-38

101. FERTILIZATION
The Zinc Spark
“On cue, at the time of fertilization, we see the egg release thousands of packages,
each dumping a million zinc atoms, and then it’s quiet. Then there is another burst
of zinc release. Each egg has four or five of these periodic sparks. It is beautiful to
see, orchestrated much like a symphony.” - Dr. Thomas O'Halloran

102. FERTILIZATION
The Zinc Spark

103. FERTILIZATION
The Zinc Spark - Mouse

104. FERTILIZATION
The Zinc Spark - Human

105. The Cephalopods and camouflage

107. Rom 1:18-20 - For since the creation of the
world
being understood by the things that are
made, even His eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse.
God’s Evidence for Creation

108. Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
“Faith” from Webster’s Dictionary:
2 a (1) : belief and trust in and
loyalty to God (2) : belief in the
traditional doctrines of a religion b
(1) : firm belief in something for
which there is no proof (2) :
complete trust
the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1

109. Luke 7: 20-23