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Why is it impossible to account for DNA by chance ? |
Why is it impossible to account for DNA by chance ?
HARUN YAHYA
www.harunyahya.com
The level of scientific knowledge we have arrived at today shows that
the evident design and complex systems in living things make it
impossible for them to have emerged by chance. For instance, thanks to
the recent "Human Genome Project," the marvelous design and the
enormous information content in human genes have been revealed for all
to see.
In the framework of that project, scientists from many countries, from
the United States to China, worked for 10 years to decipher one by one
the 3 billion chemical codes in DNA. As a result, nearly all the
information in human genes has been set out in its correct order.
Although this is a very exciting and important development, as Dr.
Francis Collins, who leads the Human Genome Project states, so far only
the first step has been taken in the decoding of the information in
DNA.In order to understand why it took 10 years and the work of
hundreds of scientists to uncover the codes that make up this
information, we have to understand the magnitude of the information
contained within DNA.
There is enough information in the DNA of a single human cell to fill
an encyclopedia of one million pages. It would be impossible to read it
all in one lifetime. If one person set out to read one DNA code per
second, non-stop, all day every day, it would take him 100 years. That
is because the encyclopedia in question possesses nearly three billion
different codes. If we wrote down all the information in DNA on paper,
it would stretch from the North Pole to the Equator. That means some
1,000 large volumes-more than enough to fill a big library.
Even more important, all this information is contained in the nucleus
of each and every cell, which means that as each individual consists of
some 100 trillion cells, there are 100 trillion versions of the same
library.
If we wish to compare this treasury of information with the level of
knowledge so far reached by man, it is impossible to provide any
example of the same magnitude. An unbelievable picture presents itself:
100 trillion x 1,000 books! That is more than the number of grains of
sand in the world. Furthermore, if we multiply that number by the six
billion people currently living on the Earth, and the billions more who
have ever lived, then the number is beyond our capacity to grasp, and
the amount of information stretches to infinity.
These examples are an indication of what imposing information we are
living cheek by jowl with. We possess advanced computers that can store
great amounts of information. However, when we compare DNA to these
computers, we are amazed to see that the most modern technology-the
product of the cumulative human labour and knowledge over the
centuries-does not even possess the storage capacity of a single cell.
Gene Myers is one of the most prominent experts of Celera Genomics, the
company that carried out the Human Genome project. His words regarding
the outcome of the project are a statement of the great knowledge and
design in DNA: "What really astounds me is the architecture of
life...The system is extremely complex. It's like it was designed...
There's a huge intelligence there."
Another interesting aspect is that all life on the planet has been
produced according to the coded descriptions written in this same
language. No bacterium, plant, or animal is formed without its DNA. It
is quite evident that all of life emerges as the result of descriptions
that employ the same language and stemming from the same source of
knowledge.
This leads us to an obvious conclusion. All living things in the world
live and multiply according to information created by one single
intelligence.
This makes the theory of evolution utterly meaningless. That is because
the foundation of evolution is "chance," but chance cannot create
information. If one day the formula of a medicine that can cure cancer
were found on a piece of paper, all of mankind would join forces to
discover the scientist concerned and even give him an award. Nobody
would think, "I wonder if the formula appeared when some ink was spilt
onto the page." Everybody who possesses reason and clear thinking will
think that that the formula was written by someone who had made a deep
study of chemistry, human physiology, cancer, and pharmacology.
The evolutionist claim that the information in DNA came about by chance
is completely irrational, and is equivalent to saying that the formula
on the paper also came about by chance. DNA contains the detailed
molecular formulae of 100,000 types of proteins and enzymes, together
with the delicate order governing how these will be used during
production. Alongside these, it contains the production plans for the
message-carrier hormones and the inter-cellular communications
protocols they are used in, and all kinds of other complex and
specified information.
To claim that DNA and all the information within it came about by
chance events and natural causes reflects either total ignorance of the
subject or materialist dogmatism. The idea that a molecule such as DNA,
with all the magnificent information and complex structure it contains,
could be the product of chance is not even worth taking seriously.
Unsurprisingly, evolutionists try to gloss over the subject of the
source of life, as with so many other subjects, by describing it as an
"unsolved secret."
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15 Sep 2005 03:41:54 PM |
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Why is it impossible to account for DNA by chance ?
HARUN YAHYA
www.harunyahya.com
The level of scientific knowledge we have arrived at today shows that
the evident design and complex systems in living things make it
impossible for them to have emerged by chance. For instance, thanks to
the recent "Human Genome Project," the marvelous design and the
enormous information content in human genes have been revealed for all
to see.
In the framework of that project, scientists from many countries, from
the United States to China, worked for 10 years to decipher one by one
the 3 billion chemical codes in DNA. As a result, nearly all the
information in human genes has been set out in its correct order.
Although this is a very exciting and important development, as Dr.
Francis Collins, who leads the Human Genome Project states, so far only
the first step has been taken in the decoding of the information in
DNA.In order to understand why it took 10 years and the work of
hundreds of scientists to uncover the codes that make up this
information, we have to understand the magnitude of the information
contained within DNA.
There is enough information in the DNA of a single human cell to fill
an encyclopedia of one million pages. It would be impossible to read it
all in one lifetime. If one person set out to read one DNA code per
second, non-stop, all day every day, it would take him 100 years. That
is because the encyclopedia in question possesses nearly three billion
different codes. If we wrote down all the information in DNA on paper,
it would stretch from the North Pole to the Equator. That means some
1,000 large volumes-more than enough to fill a big library.
Even more important, all this information is contained in the nucleus
of each and every cell, which means that as each individual consists of
some 100 trillion cells, there are 100 trillion versions of the same
library.
If we wish to compare this treasury of information with the level of
knowledge so far reached by man, it is impossible to provide any
example of the same magnitude. An unbelievable picture presents itself:
100 trillion x 1,000 books! That is more than the number of grains of
sand in the world. Furthermore, if we multiply that number by the six
billion people currently living on the Earth, and the billions more who
have ever lived, then the number is beyond our capacity to grasp, and
the amount of information stretches to infinity.
On the other hand, ascribing DNA transcription to the rate of reading
or typesetting a book is a little off. At the molecular level, the time
required to replicate an entire strand of DNA is a little less than a
second.
Moreover, a digital camera with 10 megapixel resolution stores a
quarter of a billion bits of information in approximately a
half-second. A single home computer could generate a hundred copies of
each picture in less than a minute. A thousand computers operating
simultaneously could apply a filter that changes 2% of the bits on a
picture each time, generating new pictures that carry the same amount
of information as the original picture, and do so at the rate of a
hundred thousand distinct pictures an hour. Ten years of that operation
would replicate the same amount of information stored in all the
genetic information stored in every organism on the planet.
I don't know why you would compare this with human read/write times. I
don't know why you would find this amount of information extraordinary.
I don't know why you would think that two organisms that differ in
their DNA by 2% would have to have their joint probability calculated
as though each were assembled completely randomly from the ground up.
These examples are an indication of what imposing information we are
living cheek by jowl with. We possess advanced computers that can store
great amounts of information. However, when we compare DNA to these
computers, we are amazed to see that the most modern technology-the
product of the cumulative human labour and knowledge over the
centuries-does not even possess the storage capacity of a single cell.
Gene Myers is one of the most prominent experts of Celera Genomics, the
company that carried out the Human Genome project. His words regarding
the outcome of the project are a statement of the great knowledge and
design in DNA: "What really astounds me is the architecture of
life...The system is extremely complex. It's like it was designed...
There's a huge intelligence there."
Ah, and a witness makes it so.
Another interesting aspect is that all life on the planet has been
produced according to the coded descriptions written in this same
language. No bacterium, plant, or animal is formed without its DNA. It
is quite evident that all of life emerges as the result of descriptions
that employ the same language and stemming from the same source of
knowledge.
This leads us to an obvious conclusion. All living things in the world
live and multiply according to information created by one single
intelligence.
This makes the theory of evolution utterly meaningless. That is because
the foundation of evolution is "chance," but chance cannot create
information. If one day the formula of a medicine that can cure cancer
were found on a piece of paper, all of mankind would join forces to
discover the scientist concerned and even give him an award. Nobody
would think, "I wonder if the formula appeared when some ink was spilt
onto the page." Everybody who possesses reason and clear thinking will
think that that the formula was written by someone who had made a deep
study of chemistry, human physiology, cancer, and pharmacology.
The evolutionist claim that the information in DNA came about by chance
Who says that? Ever hear of self-organization?
is completely irrational, and is equivalent to saying that the formula
on the paper also came about by chance. DNA contains the detailed
molecular formulae of 100,000 types of proteins and enzymes, together
with the delicate order governing how these will be used during
production. Alongside these, it contains the production plans for the
message-carrier hormones and the inter-cellular communications
protocols they are used in, and all kinds of other complex and
specified information.
Yes, and your vocabulary contains roughly 20,000 words, all with
specific meanings in specific contexts and with a certain grammar, and
all created out of 26 letters of the alphabet and a dozen punctuation
marks. Did your vocabulary spring into existence in one fell swoop,
complete with the complex organization you now use? No? Then why do you
presume that DNA had to spring into existence this way?
To claim that DNA and all the information within it came about by
chance events and natural causes reflects either total ignorance of the
subject or materialist dogmatism. The idea that a molecule such as DNA,
with all the magnificent information and complex structure it contains,
could be the product of chance is not even worth taking seriously.
Well, that's a choice, not an argument. If you took it seriously, then
you could evaluate whether it was feasible.
Unsurprisingly, evolutionists try to gloss over the subject of the
source of life, as with so many other subjects, by describing it as an
"unsolved secret."
And what's wrong with that? Does unsolved and unknown mean
*automatically* supernatural? What basis do you have for that
judgement?
PD
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14 Sep 2005 02:44:00 PM |
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Not just chance, though that's a factor. Takes Blind
Variation/Selective Retention
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/BVSR.html
"Blind Variation and Selective Retention" (BVSR) is a phrase introduced
by Donald T. Campbell, as a way of describing the most fundamental
principle underlying Darwinian evolution. (Campbell only applied it to
the evolution of knowledge, but we here apply it in the most general
context). The BVSR formula can be understood as a summary of three
independent principles: blind variation, asymmetric transitions, and
selective retention. The second principle is implicit in the "and" of
"blind-variation-and-selective-retention", since it ensures that
configurations produced by blind variation can make the transition to
stability, i.e. selective retention. That this is not obvious is shown
by classical mechanics where unstable or variable configurations
necessarily remain unstable (see asymmetric transitions) .
Copyright=A9 1993 Principia Cybernetica - Referencing this page
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