(Main source for this article is Perry S. Marshall.
http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/ifyoucanreadthis.htm)
Languages can be written and/or spoken. They are used to convey information from one mind to a similar mind (human to human, dog to dog, etc.) or from a human to a machine (computer, punched card reader, automated light switch, etc.).
Written languages use symbols and collections of symbols. The written symbols can be an alphabet, punctuation, hieroglyphics (pictorial symbols as with Chinese), diagrams (blueprints, maps), musical symbols, numbers, precise holes in IBM cards, etc. The language symbols can be written on various materials (paper, ink, parchment, stone tablets, papyrus, etc.) with a variety of marking instruments (pencil lead, ink, chisel, etc.). The message in written information is always independent of the material used.
DNA contains a language that life forms use to store, translate, copy, correct errors and read in order to create proteins. Evolutionists argue that random, favorable, mutations in the DNA language are the basis for evolution – the improvement in life forms. Information theory disagrees.
Random mutations in the DNA language are exactly like interference (commonly called noise) in TV or radio broadcasts and in recordings. Information theory teaches that noise never improves a message.
Random mutations violate the whole
nature of how information is created.
Information begins with an idea in a mind that the mind-owner wants to
communicate to another mind. The
mind-owner thinks of a message and then speaks or writes the message in some
language that the second mind can understand.
When you are speaking in a noisy place, how often does the noise improve
your message? How often does
noise/interference improve your cell-phone messages? To communicate in such situations you need to repeat yourself and
sometimes ask your listener to tell you what he heard.
Information can only be improved from the top (a mind) working down to the bottom (the spoken words or written symbols). You can’t randomly mutate a sentence into saying something more meaningful. Mutations, like noise, only work from the bottom up. They always destroy information, and you can never recover it. It’s like food decay; once food rots you cannot change the garbage back into food.