Functional Information is something that provides you with practical or useful or helpful or valuable information.
Examples are a traffic sign, computer programming, a recipe, a dictionary, a fuel gauge, the alphabet.
Functional information Always requires the effort of intelligent design. It does not happen by accident. It requires the effort of a “mind” or “agent”.
For example, let’s say we remove any evidence of human existence on planet Earth and all that is left are computers. That a million years after human existence was erased, an alien life form lands on Planet Earth and discovers even one computer, or even the elements of decomposed computers such as transistors. What would they conclude? Would they think that the computers were created, self-assembled from the soil or water or air? That they evolved from the basic elements of the planet? Obviously not.
Functional information is Always the product of intelligent design.
“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created”.
- Bill Gates, The Road Ahead.
Q? What is the origin of our DNA?
Wishes for a great day, each one a gift,
Hugs too,
David/
