In my original post back in August, titled "Why I believe," I briefly mentioned Francis Collins' book "The Language of God." Francis Collins, pictured below, was the Director of the Human Genome Project. He entered the East Room alongside President Clinton back in 2000. He is one of the country's leading geneticists, and was the one who coordinated the efforts of thousands of other geneticists in 6 countries. (In other words, the man is no dummy).
In writing about the project he states, "For me the experience of sequencing the human genome, and uncovering this most remarkable of all texts, was both a stunning scientific achievement and an occasion for worship." Hmm.In the introduction to his book he writes, "The human genome consists of all the DNA of our species, the hereditary code of life. This newly revealed text was 3 billion letters long, and written in a strange and cryptographic four-letter code. Such is the amazing complexity of the information carried within each cell of the human body, that a live reading of the code at a rate of one letter per second would take thirty-one years, even if reading continued day and night." The sheer volume of information is truly remarkable and incomparable to anything man has created.
Notice I underlined the word information. That's what DNA is: information. So, we'll keep this post short and sum it up with these words by Stephen C. Meyer, "Information is not something derived from material properties; in a sense, it transcends matter and energy. Naturalistic theories that rely solely on matter and energy are not going to be able to account for information. Only intelligence can."
