This is the second in my series of articles on God and Science. In terms of information storage capacity, the DNA in the cells of a simple one-celled bacteria is far stronger and more complicated than the most powerful supercomputer. The difference is by a mind-boggling order of magnitudes. And if you are thinking 3, 5, or at the most 10, you are in for an almighty shock.
The science community wants us to believe that the level of complexity in DNA simply CREATED ITSELF, over two billion years ago, to govern the reproduction of single-celled algae and bacteria, without any kind of divine plan. Reading The Bible is always good, but the level of absurdity to this scientific claim cannot be understood by reading The Bible. It can only be understood through science itself.
Ever wonder why a computer only stores a “1” or a “O”. Why are there only two choices for each information position? Why not three or four choices? Why not ten choices? Now let’s take a look at DNA. Molecular biologists have identified four proteins that compromise DNA. They are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. These make up the DNA base pairs.
ADENINE (A)
CYTOSINE (C)
GUANINE (G)
THYMINE (T)
Four choices are way more complex than two choices, but no, DNA is not a 4-choice data system. DNA actually has 12 possible choices for each data position. The letter pairs below are the 12 choices:
POSSIBLE DATA CHOICES FOR EACH DNA LEVEL (each level is a DNA base-pair)
POSSIBLE DATA CHOICES FOR COMPUTER CODE
How much better is a 12-choice system than a 2-choice system? I’m going to try and explain this as simply as possible, until it outpaces what can be conceptualized. DNA isn’t a few data points long. Even the simplest microscopic organism has millions of base pairs.
For DNA, the first data position is any of the 12 possible base pairs. Including the second data position, there are 12 x 12 = 144 choices. Go three rows deep, and there’s 12 x 12 x 12 = 1,728 choices. Oh boy, this is exponentially greater than a 0 or 1 choice that yields 8 possible choices three rows deep. Right off the bat, DNA is much better at information storage than computer code. If we go only 10 levels deep, for DNA there’s over 61 billion possible combinations (see the yellow highlighted number below). For computer code, there’s only 1,024 possible combinations.
Let’s go to position 20. See the chart above. That’s a mind-blowing difference for a DNA spiral with only 20 levels. Yet DNA isn’t 20 data positions, it’s a long spirally thing with million or billions of data positions. Let’s consider for a moment the DNA of a cat.
Question: What information is stored in a cat’s DNA?
Answer: How to make a cat
Oh, yes, of course. You knew that, but I needed to spell it out. The DNA for how to make a cat is INFORMATION. This information is organized into something called life. Quite literally, a cat is a biological computer. So is all life, from a bacterium up to a human. Biological computers are way better than electronic computers, in ways other than information storage. Computers can’t work without an outside power source, but a cat can. Computers can’t exist outside in the weather, but cats can. Cats can exist into the future, storing and passing on the information on how to make a cat, possibly for millions of years. Compare that to these computers that were abandoned by the US military in Afghanistan. They quickly became useless without humans to keep them going. They can’t even function, not less reproduce.
Human DNA has over 3 billion base pairs, spread out over 23 chromosomes.
https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Base-Pair If each base pair is an information position with 12 choices, how many possible choices are there in a data system that is 3 billion base pairs long?
The answer is so large it can only be measured by “orders of magnitude”. Each order of magnitude Is a zero on a number. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude For instance, 100 is 3 orders of magnitude. Each additional order of magnitude is 10 times larger than the order before it. 20 orders of magnitude is ten times more than 19 orders of magnitude. Got it?
Now imagine a number with phenomenally more zero’s than I can type on this page. That’s how many orders of magnitude that DNA outperforms a super-computer.
Just how many more zeroes? We are comparing a 2-choice system to a 12-choice system, so each level (each data point) is 10 times more complex (12 – 2 = 10). Hmmm, ten. What a coincidence. That’s one order of magnitude for each information level (each DNA base pair).
So, if human DNA is 3 billion base pairs long, that means it is 3 billion orders of magnitude more powerful than the 0’s and 1’s of computer storage. That number is a one (1) followed by three billion zeroes. And that’s not how many times stronger that DNA is over computer code for information storage. That’s how many orders of magnitude that it is stronger. For example, 50,000 orders of magnitude is a number ten times larger than 49,999 orders of magnitude. 3 billion orders of magnitude is a number absurd beyond human comprehension.
And that information is packed into the DNA of every single cell, and each cell is so small that it is microscopic.
ACCORDING TO EVOLUTIONARY THEORY, THAT DNA CREATED ITSELF
This is the DNA that science says created itself. Ha. They say it created itself without the hand of God. My article doesn’t include any audio, but this is right time to laugh really hard. We are at the point that there has to be a divine creator for DNA. In no way shape or form could DNA have created itself.
We could cut the scientists a little bit of slack by suggesting that God set up all the universal constants, all the laws of nature, and all the principles of organic chemistry specifically for this level of complexity to exist, and then He sat back and watched as DNA evolved according to His divine plan. Could he do that? Sure, He is God. And maybe the process is happening on millions or more planets throughout the universe. The first problem is that science actually has no clue how DNA evolved, and it’s all guesswork. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6360/ Secondly, this “systemic creation” concept is not the Creationist position, even though it effectively proves a greater God.
I disagree with traditional Creationist theory. I think that systemic creation is a mightier accomplishment than God individually creating each species. Conceptually, any kind of system is much grander than the sum of its parts. Traditional Creationist theory takes the parts approach, and to that extent it is missing the full glory of an evolutionary and ecological system that GOD DESIGNED to advance and evolve. I wrote a prior essay on systemic creation. https://www.thewelcomemovement.com/god-science-and-the-creation-paradox
According to science, DNA supposedly created itself 2 billion years ago, for the purpose of one-celled bacteria to reproduce. All of that information complexity, just for microscopic forms of life. Wow. It’s just ridiculous.
Computers as we know them will never outcompete DNA. At some point computer scientists are going to have give up their binary system of 1’s and 0’s, and move over to a 12-choice DNA-based computer coding system. They will start to use DNA to store information, and computers will literally become biological. Say goodbye to Moore’s Law.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mooreslaw.asp . The complexity of information storage will far more than double every two years.
This technology is already being developed. Next, they are going to want to implant a microchip into our hands or foreheads to merge the human mind with the internet, and also to allow us to make electronic purchases. It’s been prophesized, and now it’s coming in our lifetime.
Let’s look at the existence of DNA using a simple logic tree:
If the answer is no, that means it was engineered directly by a divine creator. God did that.
If the answer is yes, go to question #2.
2. Why are the universal constants, the laws of nature, and the principles of organic chemistry set up in such a way to make it possible for DNA to evolve, all by itself?
Option #2 is an absurdity. Good science is never based on absurdities, it is based on tested and proven principles and ideas. In the end, science cannot answer itself, and instead it all points to a divine creator. God did that.
Can I make it any clearer? I made my case, and proved my points without cracking open The Bible and citing a single verse. I said in the opening of this article that I would prove my case through science itself, and I did.
The more I learn about science, the more I am in awe of God. DNA isn’t in The Bible, yet it exists, and it proves there is a Creator.
Devout Christians have it all wrong when they say that Science and God are in conflict. Let’s explore this a little further. Yes, science causes Youth and Young Adults to veer away from God, and to reject God. That is happening only because of how the curriculum is designed, and how God is kept completely out. Youth and Young Adults are led towards a weak understanding of science, because a stronger understanding points to a divine Creator.
All you atheists, agnostics, and cynics out there, please learn more about math and science. If you love math and science, you are on the path to God. You might not think you are, until it hits you. You are going to have an a-ha moment. Perhaps this article is that a-ha moment for some of you. I certainly hope so. And for others, it’s one big step on your path to understanding the nature of reality, and the glory of God.
6 DAYS OR 13.8 BILLION YEARS
The whole system of organic chemistry, DNA, and life simply isn’t possible without a divine Creator. For the purposes of this essay, it doesn’t matter if the universe was created by God in 6 days or in 13.8 billion years. Either way, DNA and life are mathematically and statistically impossible without a divine creator.
If your understanding of The Bible and the Word of God is “entry level”, don’t get hung up on the 6-day Creation thing. Don’t let it be an obstacle. Many people’s spiritual development is stopped dead at that level. They learn a little science and a little religion, and then decide that one thing is absolutely true, which is that the physical universe is 13.8 billion years old. And once they agree to that, they give up on God and religion. Big mistake. Let me be crystal clear ---- my position is that even if the physical universe is 13.8 billion years old, the complexity of DNA is still impossible without a divine creator.
The same is true for everything learned in astrophysics. Everything discovered is impossible without a divine creator. Another essay is pending on that one.
Christians have this concept of a “stronghold”. https://www.gotquestions.org/spiritual-strongholds.html Anything that stops someone from attaining the highest possible appreciation for God is a stronghold. Many Christians want to say that most of science is a stronghold. But if true science actually proves God, it’s not a stronghold.
Atheists and secular forces designing curriculum have created strongholds against God in both math and science. I personally have broken through every one of them. I have broken every rope and every chain.
I’ve reached the point that the more I learn about math and science, the more I am in utter and astounding awe of God and everything He designed and created.
A few serious scientists are actually suggesting that God created everything. Michio Kaku is one of them. He was quite popular among the science community 10 or 20 years ago, and his face is recognizable to many people. In recent years he has been marginalized, especially now that he has written a book called The God Equation. https://www.amazon.com/God-Equation-Quest-Theory-Everything/dp/0385542747
Michio Kaku, Author of The God Equation
I explained in the first article in the God & Science series that the universe is indeed 13.8 billion years old, but we are living in a temporal (time) dimension that is 6,000 to 10,000 years old, and which was set up by God within the one and only physical reality/spacetime. Therefore, both science and the Bible are correct on the Creation debate, from different perspectives. There is Real Time which includes the Kingdom of Heaven, and then there are a great many dimensions of time (temporal dimensions) which have been set up by God for souls to visit in order to experience our current time period. “Our” time period is the maturation of humanity. We are living in one of these temporal dimensions, and it is 6,000 to 10,000 years old. It may run for another 1,000 or so years. The first article, entitled Determinism and Temporal Dimensions, explains this in detail. https://www.thewelcomemovement.com/determinism-and-temporal-dimensions
I know this is considered a radical Christian position, but I am on a mission to break all strongholds. We Christians are losing 90% of our youth to the Creation v. Evolution debate. We’re left with 10%, and a textbook case of Confirmation Bias has set in. God is very displeased with this. As we lose our youth, we lose our country. I’m not letting go of 90% of our youth, not when I’ve seen in dreams the nature of the universe and the structure of reality. It’s all quite shocking, but people are ready for the truth. My mission continues.
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