“As distinct from the purely energetic chemistry of the universe in general, which can in the end only create disorder and increase entropy, this elegant earthly chemistry of energy and information only creates order. Whatever the entropy change involved in each individual, it is unquestionably the information flow maintained by DNA of the genes which as produced which such precision the ordered structure of all those animals and plants now populating the earth.”

“Although Darwin’s evolution by natural selection appeared to challenge the prevailing 19th century concept of a divine creation, the discovery of the structure of DNA and its role in the replication of genetic information has largely reinstated the almighty as the great computer programmer of the biosphere—and it is now a matter of ‘in the beginning’ God created DNA.”

“The ‘central dogma’ of molecular biology, which states that the information upon which the chemistry of life depends is provided by the genetic material DNA. But the refusal of biologists to regress further than this point and to confront the question as to where the information contained in DNA came from in the first place has, according to Stephen Black, reintroduced a quasi-vitalism in to biology.”

— Michael Foley (1990), Laws, Men and Machines [1]