In order for living things to operate in any organized or functional way, one very important thing must be present. The information or instructions by which it is to operate. This need can be seen in all living organisms. A butterfly and its marvelous wing structure, an apple tree with its ability to store food along with the seed, a sponge that can rearrange itself after being broken apart, or a baby as it develops and grows. This is called “conceptual information” and could pose one of the greatest questions facing scientists today as they try to explain life without a Creator. If you remove God from the origin of life then you must have knowledge or conceptual information coming about by pure accident.
In an article by Dr. A.E. Wilder-Smith, one of the world’s leading creation scientists, he says, “the biblical report of the origin of life is right on the mark when it states that man, with his brain and ability to speak and to develop conceptual thought, was created in the image of God the Creator.” He also states that we are “forced to come back to basics and assume that there must have been in the beginning–at the act of creation–an organ of the kind that makes the human brain tick (but infinitely more powerful, of course) to generate the concepts of biology on a much larger scale than the human brain can ever develop,” i.e., God!
As for the answer given by atheistic scientists that matter alone can do this, he says,
“Now that it is known that the DNA molecule stores information not linearly but in three dimensions, we understand that life could not, on theoretical grounds, ever have originated from inorganic matter alone. Equal amounts of different forms of DNA could never have functioned as an information storage and retrieval system. Therefore, matter alone, with only chemistry to aid it, could never have produced any form of life as we know it.”
