(November 20, 2013 at 9:08 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(November 20, 2013 at 8:54 pm)snowtracks Wrote: first sentence under dna wikipedia - Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses.
so are you saying that's incorrect? or instuctions is not information?
It's a metaphor, kitten.
If you think it's otherwise, and this information is a scientifically factual concept, then you can obviously show the method by which information can be accurately measured and scientifically quantified, yes?
so if instructions is a metaphor for information, then it's information.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.