The Magic and Mystery of DNA
Today, unless your a hermit living in a cave, you probably already know what DNA is. You hear about it frequently in the news. It's what is used to make clones. It's what makes genetic engineering possible.
Every cell of our physical bodies has the double helix of DNA in it. The strands of human DNA are only ten atoms wide but about two meters long. And a double strand is coiled into the nucleus of every cell! As one writer put it, that's like "putting 50 miles of kite string in a shoe box".
The real surprise about DNA is that it seems to have changed very little, if at all, since life first began on Earth billions of years ago! You would expect that if life was a random thing, as taught by most evolutionists, that the earliest and simplest life forms would have no DNA and be unable to reproduce themselves. Then a simple form of DNA would develop, and, over many millions of years, grow more complex until it reaches it's current state. But there is no evidence that it happened that way. Even simple bacteria and single-celled animals have complex DNA.
According to Francis Crick, a Biologist who is considered the co-discoverer in the 1950's of the DNA structure,
the chance of such a thing developing at random is " more unlikely than the assembly of a Boeing 707 by a hurricane in a junk yard". Specifically, he calculated the odds of this happening by chance at 1 in 1 followed by 260 zeros. That's worse than the odds of winning 100 state and national lotteries simultaneously.
Since Crick was an Atheist who could not accept the existence of any kind of spiritual world that pre-dates , and is the source of, the physical world, he came to the conclusion that life must have been planted here from alien life forms from an advanced civilization. Those of us who do believe in God have a different solution to this enigma.
Another fascinating thing about DNA is that there is some evidence that ancient priests and shaman may have been aware of it's existence thousands of years ago, though perhaps only vaguely. In Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, cave paintings done 25 to 35 thousand years ago, believed to have been done by tribal shaman to illustrate their spiritual visions, often depict coiled snakes that resemble the double helix of DNA. The ancient Egyptian Book of Gates depicts the gods who carry the twisted cord which also resembles DNA. Coincidence? Perhaps, but not likely.
Every cell of our physical bodies has the double helix of DNA in it. The strands of human DNA are only ten atoms wide but about two meters long. And a double strand is coiled into the nucleus of every cell! As one writer put it, that's like "putting 50 miles of kite string in a shoe box".
The real surprise about DNA is that it seems to have changed very little, if at all, since life first began on Earth billions of years ago! You would expect that if life was a random thing, as taught by most evolutionists, that the earliest and simplest life forms would have no DNA and be unable to reproduce themselves. Then a simple form of DNA would develop, and, over many millions of years, grow more complex until it reaches it's current state. But there is no evidence that it happened that way. Even simple bacteria and single-celled animals have complex DNA.
According to Francis Crick, a Biologist who is considered the co-discoverer in the 1950's of the DNA structure,
the chance of such a thing developing at random is " more unlikely than the assembly of a Boeing 707 by a hurricane in a junk yard". Specifically, he calculated the odds of this happening by chance at 1 in 1 followed by 260 zeros. That's worse than the odds of winning 100 state and national lotteries simultaneously.
Since Crick was an Atheist who could not accept the existence of any kind of spiritual world that pre-dates , and is the source of, the physical world, he came to the conclusion that life must have been planted here from alien life forms from an advanced civilization. Those of us who do believe in God have a different solution to this enigma.
Another fascinating thing about DNA is that there is some evidence that ancient priests and shaman may have been aware of it's existence thousands of years ago, though perhaps only vaguely. In Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, cave paintings done 25 to 35 thousand years ago, believed to have been done by tribal shaman to illustrate their spiritual visions, often depict coiled snakes that resemble the double helix of DNA. The ancient Egyptian Book of Gates depicts the gods who carry the twisted cord which also resembles DNA. Coincidence? Perhaps, but not likely.
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