Language DNA & Thermodynamics - Andy McIntosh
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What is the relationship between intelligence and the material world? In confirmation of John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word,” there is a top-down flow of control such that the thermodynamics of DNA is essentially governed by software in a similar way to how man-made digital computers are controlled by programmed algorithms originating from intelligent minds. This talk examines how the language of DNA connects with thermodynamics and shows how a Christian worldview provides a framework for new research. It is shown that the remarkable efficiency of information transfer in DNA is close to the minimum possible.
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"Andy McIntosh holds an Emeritus chair in Thermodynamics at the University of Leeds and is also an adjunct professor of Engineering at Liberty University in Virginia. He has had a long scientific research career concerning mathematics, combustion and aeronautics, both in academia and in a government establishment, and is author of over 200 academic papers. Andy has long worked on combustion and its interaction with acoustics and larger pressure waves. He has also worked on the mathematical modelling of ignition, and he is the inventor of the 𝜇Mist novel spray technology which mimics the Bombardier beetle spray and has led to this spray technology being applied to fuel injectors, pharmaceutical sprays, aerosols and more recently fire sprinkler systems. This was awarded the 2010 Times Higher Educational award for the Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology. His work has also included investigations into the fundamental link between thermodynamics and information. This strikes at the heart of the issue concerning abiogenesis – the information in living systems is neither matter nor energy but is absolutely essential for life.
Andy now lectures widely on origins, and has authored the books “Genesis for Today” (Day One, 6th
