Werner Gitt

Werner Gitt (born 22 February 1937) is a German young earth creationist.

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 [ [http://www.werner-gitt.de/down_eng/ENG_childhood_21.pdf "My Childhood in East Prussia"] by Werner Gitt] .

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". [ [http://clv.dyndns.info/pdf/255255.pdf "In The Beginning was Information"] by Werner Gitt] (original German title: "Am Anfang war die Information") and in an article for Answers in Genesis [ [http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v10/i2/information.asp Information, science and biology] by Werner Gitt, Answers in Genesis] he argues that information theory refutes evolution. In his later book "In the Beginning was the Big Bang?" "(Am Anfang war der Urknall?)", he argues that the Big Bang Theory is weak due to the lack of Arguments and Evidence pointing towards the Big Bang, and its reliance on the existence of Dark Matter which he claimed as of the year 2000 may not exist.

Work

In an article for Answers in Genesis [ [http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v10/i2/information.asp Information, science and biology] by Werner Gitt, Answers in Genesis] he argues that information theory refutes evolution. Critics claim this has been rejected by the scientific community as pseudoscience, specifically pseudomathematics.

Gitt's arguments have been rejected by the scientific community. Rich Baldwin of talk.origins explained that Gitt has incorrectly cited research that used "algorithmic randomness and not statistical randomness", which has led to false conclusions. [ [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/information/gitt.html Information Theory and Creationism: Werner Gitt] by Rich Baldwin, part of the talk.origins Archive] Secondly, Gitt "describes his principles as "empirical" but Baldwin explained "the data is not provided to back this up." Similarly, Baldwin explained Gitt "proposes fourteen 'theorems,' yet fails to demonstrate them". Similarly, Tom Schneider of the Molecular Information Theory Group at the National Institutes of Health, an expert on the application of evolution to biology similarly criticizes his use of unproved "theorems", use of circular reasoning, self-contradiction, "Gitt has gotten Shannon backwards" and that Gitt falls into a "standard misunderstanding that information is not entropy, information is not uncertainty" [ [http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/paper/ev/gitt/ Errors in Werner Gitt's work with Information Theory] by Tom Schneider, Molecular Information Theory Group at the National Institutes of Health] .

Bibliography

* 1992 "Questions - that always get asked" "(Fragen - die immer wieder gestellt werden)"(ISBN 3-89397-184-X)

* 1993 "Did God use Evolution?" "(Schuf Gott durch Evolution?)" (ISBN 3-89397-725-2)

* 1994 "If Animals Could Talk" "(Wenn Tiere reden koennten)"(ISBN 3-89397-760-0)

* 1997 "In the Beginning was Information" "(Am Anfang war die Information)"(ISBN 3-89397-255-2)

* 1999 "The Wonder of Man" (ISBN 3-89397-397-4)

* 2000 "In the Beginning was the Big Bang?" "(Am Anfang war der Urknall?)"(ISBN 3-89397-433-4)

* 2001 "Time And Eternity" "(Zeit und Ewigkeit)"(ISBN 3-89397-473-3)

* "" "Signals from Space - Why are there Stars?" "(Signale aus dem All - Wozu gibt es sterne?)" (ISBN 3-89397-705-8)

References

External links

* [http://www.werner-gitt.de/ Werner Gitt's website]
* [http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/w_gitt.asp Biography] from Answers in Genesis
* [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/information/gitt.html Information Theory and Creationism: Werner Gitt] - part of the talk.origins Archive.
* [http://www.researchintelligentdesign.org/wiki/Werner_Gitt Werner Gitt: ResearchID]
* [http://www.researchintelligentdesign.org/wiki/Gitt%27s_Information_Theorems Werner Gitt's Information Theorems]