Werner Gitt
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Werner Gitt (born 22 February 1937) is a German young earth creationist.
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[edit] Biography
Gitt was born in Raineck, Ebenrode East Prussia, (now Nesterov in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) in 1937, the son of Hermann Gitt, a farmer, and his wife Emma (née Girod). During the Second World War, his 15-year old elder brother Fritz was taken away and killed by the Red Army, his mother was taken to a Soviet labor camp where she died and his uncle Fritz was killed fighting for the Volkssturm. His father survived and was taken prisoner of war in France. He and his aunts were relocated to Föhr in the North Frisian Islands where he was reunited with his father[1].
In 1963 he enrolled in the Technische Hochschule Hannover in Hannover to study engineering and completed his studies in 1968. He then went to the Technische Hochschule Aachen in Aachen where he gained a doctorate in 1970.
In 1971 Werner Gitt started his career at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt "PTB"), in Braunschweig. From 1978 to 2002 he was Head of Q4 Information Technology. In 1978 he was promoted to Professor at the PTB and was promoted to Director. He retired in 2002.
He is best known for his opposition to evolution. In his book In the Beginning was Information.[2] (original German title: Am Anfang war die Information) and in an article for Answers in Genesis[3] he argues that information theory refutes evolution.
Gitt categorized information into a five level hierarchy:
- Statistics: Symbol frequencies, channel capacity etc. See: Information Entropy, Shannon's Theory
- Syntax: All structural properties of setting up information.
- Semantics: Meaning of symbols.
- Pragmatics: Actions required by recipient to achieve sender's purposes.
- Apobetics: Sender's purposes.
Gitt coined
apobetics: the teleological aspect, the question of the purpose; derived from the Greek apobeinon = result, success, conclusion.
In an article for Answers in Genesis[5] he argues that information theory refutes evolution. Critics claim this has been rejected by the scientific community as pseudoscience, specifically pseudomathematics.
[edit] Bibliography
- 1992 Question - I Have Always Wanted to Ask (ISBN 3-89397-184-X)
- 1993 Did God use Evolution? (ISBN 3-89397-725-2)
- 1994 If Animals Could Talk (ISBN 3-89397-760-0)
- 1997 In the Beginning was Information (ISBN 3-89397-255-2)
- 1999 The Wonder of Man (ISBN 3-89397-397-4)
- 2001 Time And Eternity (ISBN 3-89397-473-3)
[edit] References
- ^ My Childhood in East Prussia by Werner Gitt
- ^ In The Beginning was Information by Werner Gitt
- ^ Information, science and biology by Werner Gitt, Answers in Genesis
- ^ G4 (1982)
- ^ Information, science and biology by Werner Gitt, Answers in Genesis
