Table of Contents Foreword Introduction PART I Chapter I : Principles of Creativity Some Basic Considerations The biological Organism and the Machine. David Hume's Objections Apparent Exceptions to Section I Time, Creativity and the Evolution of Machine Structure Infinite Time and infinite Quanta of Information. Inorganic Matter The Hybridization of lnfonnation with Maller and its Connection with the Definition of lhe Term MMiracle" Chapter II : Primary and Secondary Information and Its Sources. The Origin and Development of the von Neumann Machine excluding Conciousness Theoretical Considerations Actual and Potential Information Some Further Details on the Actual Information required for the Synthesis of von Neumann Machines The van Neumann Machine and the Phenomenon of Consciousness Accounting for the Origin of lnfom1ation - Coupled with Dimension Theory PART Il Chapter Ill : Materialism and Its Relationship to Information Materialism and Positivism Scientific and dialeclical Malerlalism Communism and posllivisllc Ideology The EffecUveness of polilical Dialeclic and of Nalural Selection Chapter IV : Materialism In the Light of Modern Physical Research Factors which have led to the Abdication of Scientific Materialism Recent Developments in Astronomy and the Validity of Scientific Materialism Light Refraction and Gravitation Chapter V: Evolutionary Theory, Abiogenesis and Evolutive Speciation The Irrelevance and Impotence of Evolutionary Theory in Matters of Experimental Abiogenesis Attempts at the Synthesis of Life in vitro The Arthur Kornberg and the Sol Spiegelman Syntheses PART ill Chapter VI : The Origin of the Genetic Code: an Alternative View The Nature of U1e Genetic Code Carl Sagan's and olhers' Views on Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, its Falsification or Verification ETI and its Verification: its Consequences for Darwinian Theory Chapter VII : Origin and Function of Information in Abiogenesis and Evolutive Speciatlon: Ancient and Modern Wisdom on the Six Days of Creation and the Age of the Earth Information Theory as the Decisive Factor Negating the Danvinian Evolutionary Concept but Suggesting a Scientific Alternative The Alchemists and Their Investigations Hindrances Standing in the way of Lhe Development of New Theories of Abiogenesis and of Evolulive Specialion Ancient and Modern Wisdom Concerning the Six Days of Creation Mechanisms of Transfer of Factor WI at the Hybridization with Matter in Biology and Their Relationship to "t" The Age of the Universe, the Solar System and the Earth Chapter VIII : Materialism In the Light of an Analogy and some Practical Examples Flatland and its Environment A Disquieting Event in Flatland Dr. Albertus Zweisteinus' Visit and Verdict on the Recent Happenings in Flatland Dr. Albertus Zweisteinus' Views on the Nature of Dimensions and Reality Some Purely Theological Consequences of Dr. Zweisteinus·Conjurations Addendum