ABikerSailor
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Amazing revelations about DNA
As scientists began to decode the human DNA molecule, they found something quite unexpectedan exquisite 'language' composed of some 3 billion genetic letters. "One of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century," says Dr. Stephen Meyer, director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Wash., "was that DNA actually stores informationthe detailed instructions for assembling proteinsin the form of a four-character digital code" (quoted by Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004, p. 224).
It is hard to fathom, but the amount of information in human DNA is roughly equivalent to 12 sets of The Encyclopaedia Britannica an incredible 384 volumes" worth of detailed information that would fill 48 feet of library shelves!
Yet in their actual sizewhich is only two millionths of a millimeter thicka teaspoon of DNA, according to molecular biologist Michael Denton, could contain all the information needed to build the proteins for all the species of organisms that have ever lived on the earth, and "there would still be enough room left for all the information in every book ever written" ( Evolution: A Theory in Crisis , 1996, p. 334).
Who or what could miniaturize such information and place this enormous number of 'letters' in their proper sequence as a genetic instruction manual? Could evolution have gradually come up with a system like this?
Actually, it already has, because mankind has helped to breed every different variety of dog from a single common ancestor known as the wolf.