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Our Amazing DNA
In our media-saturated culture, the only thing many people know about DNA is that it identifies the real killer. But beyond the crime drama lies a fascinating, complex mini-world that points squarely away from naturalism – life by “blind chance” – to the work of a Creator.
If high school biology is a distant memory, let’s review some basics of DNA. “Within the nucleus is the genetic machinery of the cell (chromosomes and genes containing deoxyribonucleic acid – DNA). The DNA is a supermolecule that carries the coded information for the replication of the cell” (Rock Solid Faith 153).
“DNA is the primary information-carrying molecule of living organisms … Being the blueprint of living cells, it stores all the information necessary for the cell to feed and protect itself, as well as propagate itself into more living cells, and to cooperate with other living cells that make up a complex organism” (In Six Days 174).
Our DNA is an arrangement of chemical substances that comprise genes, and genes are the key to making various protein structures which, in turn, are the “stuff” of which we are made – specialized cells (brain, blood, bone, nerve, etc.) and tissues. But the key to our discussion of DNA is its almost indescribable complexity and miniaturization. Listen to scientists trying to explain this:
“(Genetic replication) takes place in a DNA fiber that is only two millionths of a millimeter thick (barely visible under an electron microscope). Yet the amount of information contained within it ‘is so immense in the case of human DNA that it would stretch from the North Pole to the equator if it was typed on paper, using standard letter sizes’ … If the tightly coiled DNA strands inside a single human adult were unwound and stretched out straight, they would cover the distance to the moon half a million times. Yet when coiled, all the strands could fit inside a teaspoon” (The Scientific Case for Creation 169).
The bottom line: Evolutionists fervently preach their belief that all this incredible complexity of structure and function just happened on its own without any intelligent planning or goal in mind. The more we learn about DNA, the harder it is to sustain the blind chance of naturalism.
