[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!

The point that information (Shannon, successful communication) is the difference between life and non-life/death in nature was underscored by Wimmer's creating the polio virus in the laboratory.

He began with the information content (genome sequence available even on the internet) which he merely facilitated the communication of via physico-chemical synthesis.

[MHGinTN]

Indeed, an excellent example of information properly framed then processed by the Universe as God has designed it.

And it reminds me, too, of the joke about the scientists who tell God they can now create life, and God tells them to get their own dirt ... kind of saying the processing system is built into the background state to which information streams for processing. I sometimes use the analogy of radio waves carrying information but needing a radio receiver to process the encoded information so that it can then be further processed by a 'listener'.

Electromagnetic waves are an elegant carrier, but receivers and 'decoders' are required to realize the created/intended encoded messages.