Is Intelligent Design About the Hierarchy of Information in the Universe?

[SF]

I'm quoting from here: http://www.arn.org/blogs/index.php/2/2006/07/16/lstrongglemgwhy_is_tech_guru_george_gild_1

Gilder makes the key point that intelligent design is not about introducing ideas about the supernatural. It simply insists that the cosmos is hierarchical. That is, information comes from the top down, not the bottom up.

In itself, intelligent design - while anti-materialist, of course - does not require assumptions about the supernatural. It is a statement about how the universe actually works, what it actually is in itself. That is, the universe is top down, not bottom up. Ideas come first and are not generated by matter. Rather ideas either generate or govern matter.

Then, here:
http://www.arn.org/blogs/index.php/2/2006/07/16/lstrongglemgwhy_is_tech_guru_george_gild

Gilder ends by pointing out that we do not currently have satisfactory explanations for key phenomena like human consciousness, and Darwinism is not on the road to offering any. He quotes Nobel-laureate physicist Robert Laughlin of Stanford: "The Darwinian theory has become an all-purpose obstacle to thought rather than an enabler of scientific advance."

He closes with the reflection that the word, information, is the primary fact of nature, not matter, adding, "Superior even to the word are the mind and the meaning, the will and the way. Intelligent people bow their heads before this higher power, which still remains inexorably beyond the reach of science."

what is this? science? quackery?

 

[Evo]

It's quackery. George Gilder is a member of the Intelligent Design "Discovery Institute". I wouldn't give you 2 cents for anything that comes out of his mouth, his agenda is to push Intelligent Design.

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&isFellow=true&id=10