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From
the back:
All
living organisms require information to function. If we want to make
meaningful and useful statements about the origin of life, then we
first have to explain what information is and how it came about. The
author of this book uses many ilustrative and striking examples to
clarify this question.
The
basic principles of information are clearly established in terms of
laws and theorems which are just as valid and applicable as those
employed in the natural sciences. The current materialistic
representations of information are criticised, and a new model for the
origin of life is derived.
In
this book, the author describes a new way of understanding creation and
the Bible.
Contents
Preface
Preface to the English Edition
Preliminary Remarks about the Concept of Information
Part
1: Laws of Nature
2
Principles of Laws of Nature
2.1 The Terminology Used in the Natural Sciences
2.2 The Limits of Science and the Persistence of Paradigms
2.3 The Nature of Physical Laws
2.4 The Relevance of the Laws of Nature
2.5 The Classification of the Laws of Nature
2.6 Possible and Impossible Events
Part
2: Information
3
Information is a Fundamental Entity
3.1 Information: A Fundamental Quantity
3.2 Information: a Material or a Mental Quantity?
3.3 Information: not a Property of Matter!
4
The Five Levels of the Information Concept
4.1 The Lowest Level of Information: Statistics
4.2 The Second Level of Information: Syntax
4.3 The Third Level of Information: Semantics
4.4 The Fourth Level of Information: Pragmatics
4.5 The Fifth Level of Information: Apobetics
5
Delineation of the Information Concept
6
Information in Living Organisms
6.1 Necessary Conditions for Life
6.2 The Genetic Code
6.3 The Origin of Biological Information
6.4 Materialistic Representation and Models of the Origin of Biological
Information
6.5 Scientists against Evolution
7
The Three Forms in which Information Appears
8
Three Kinds of Transmitted Information
9
The Quality and Usefulness of Information
10
Some Quantitative Evaluations of Semantics
11
Questions often Asked about the Information Concept
Part
3: Application of the Concept of Information to the Bible
12
Life Requires a Source of Information
13
The Quality and Usefulness of Biblical Information
14
Aspects of Information as Found in the Bible
14.1 God as Sender - Man as Recipient
14.2 Man as Sender - God as Recipient
14.3 The Highest Packing Density of Information
15
The Quantities Used for Evaluating Information and Their Application to
the Bible
16
A Biblical Analogy of the Four Fundamental Entities, Mass, Energy,
Information, and Will
Appendix
A1 The Statistical View of Information
A1.1 Shannon's Theory of Information
A1.2 Mathematical Description of Statistical Information
A1.2.1 The Bit: Statistical Unit of Information
A1.2.2 The Information Spiral
A1.2.3 The Highest Packing Density of Information
A1.3 Evaluation of Communication Systems
A1.4 Statistical Analysis of Language
A1.5 Statistical Synthesis of Language
A2
Language: The Medium for Creating, Communicating, and Storing
Information
A2.1 Natural Languages
A2.1.1 General Remarks on the Structure of Human Language
A2.1.2 Complexity and Peculiarities of Languages
A2.1.3 The Origin of Languages
A2.1.4 Written Languages
A2.2 Special Languages Used in the Animal World
A2.3 Does "Artificial Intelligence" Exist?
A3
Energy
A3.1 Energy, a Fundamental Quantity
A3.2 Strategies for Maximising the Utilisation of Energy
A3.2.1 Utilisation of Energy in Technological Systems
A3.2.2 Utilisation of Energy in Biological Systems (Photosynthesis)
A3.3 The Consumption of Energy in Biological Systems: Strategies for
Minimisation
A3.4 Conservation of Energy in Biological Systems
A3.4.1 Animal "Clorophyll"
A3.4.2 Animal with "lamps"
A3.4.3 The Lung, an Optimal Structure
A3.4.4 The Flight of Migratory Birds
A3.4.4.1 The Flight of Migrating Birds: An Accurate Energy Calculation
A3.4.4.2 The Flight of Migrating Birds: A Navigational Masterpiece
References
Author
Index
246
pages + References and Author Index
(C)
of the German Edition: Werner Gitt, "Am Anfang war die Information"
1994 vy Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, Germany
(C)
of the English Edition 1997 by CLV - Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung
e.V.
Postfach 110135
D-33661 BIELEFELD
GERMANY
Translated
into English by
Prof. Dr. Jaap Kies
ISBN
3-89397-255-2
The Author
Prof. Dr. Ing. Werner Gitt is Director and Professor at the German
Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische
Bundesanstalt Braunschweig). He has written numerous scientific papers
in the field of information science, numerical mathematics, and control
engineering, as well as several popular books, some of which have been
translated to different European languages, including English, French,
Spanish and Russian, besides others. Since 1984 he has been a regular
guest lecturer at the State Independent Theological University of
Basle, Switzerland, on the subject of "The Bible and Science". He has
held lectures at many universities in many countries on the topic
"Faith and Science".
246
pages + References and Author Index
(C)
of the German Edition: Werner Gitt, "Am Anfang war die Information"
1994 vy Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, Germany
(C)
of the English Edition 1997 by CLV - Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung
e.V.
Postfach 110135
D-33661 BIELEFELD
GERMANY
Translated
into English by
Prof. Dr. Jaap Kies
ISBN
3-89397-255-2
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