[AndrewC]

Nevertheless, the main point which I was making, that the genetic code is not a "code" in the same fashion that a cypher or a language is, still stands.

It is still coded information. What is your point? That letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books and libraries don't contain information?

[WildHorseCrash]

That it isn't coded information in the manner that language is coded information; that communication theory is ill-suited as applied to the genetic context. I was responding, specifically, to these statements, in post #170:

5. Random processes cannot generate coded information; rather, they only reflect the underlying mechanistic and probabilistic properties of the components which created that physical arrangement.

6. Re-phrasing 5, coded information cannot arise by chance. Information requires a sender (a source of intelligence).

7. The information we see in the genetic code of life requires a source of intelligence behind it. It needed a source of intelligence (man) to discover the information and beign to understand it. You cannot have information without intelligence to create it.