Heredity is what gene expression is passed on from one
generation to another. This gene expression also determines whether you are male
or female. Yes, all information for both male and female are in the DNA in the
cells of your body. Some gene expressions only take place when needed such as
the stimulation of the thyroid gland. It secretes its hormone only when
stimulated to do so by a hormone that is released by the pituitary gland. The
total information of the DNA in man is known as the Human Genome.
Viruses are DNA and Protein. In some viruses RNA substitutes for DNA. The
virus injects its RNA into the cell and uses the cell DNA to replicate itself.111/18
DNA & Information
Where does information come from? Some say it comes from
random chance. Information, however, always comes from an intelligent source.
What is information? A representation of something. But there is a great gulf
between the representation of something and the object itself. Having
information is not the same as the object itself. Einstein taught what is now
known as Einstein’s Gulf. Einstein stated that there is a difference
between our impression of things, that is hard objects, and the world of
concepts, ideas or meaning. Between these two realms is a logical gulf that he
stated were unbridgeable without outside intelligence to bridge them.
To create an object you first need a concept. A
representation can serve for the basis of the creation of an object like the
manufacture of a car. However, the car cannot exist without the representation,
the plans, the blue prints from which the car is created. First you must design
it, second set up the tools to manufacture the parts and then create an assembly
plant to put it together.
Before an object can exist it must first be preceded by
information about how the object is to be made. However, the object cannot
create a representation of itself from the blue print. The car cannot recreate
itself from a set of blue prints for making a car. Making the car from the blue
prints requires a third factor: an intelligent source that can read and decode
the blue prints to make the car, but the car cannot make itself. It is
impossible for an object to transform itself into a representation of itself.
Einstein pointed out that material matter is not able to create a representation
of itself, an object is only what it is, an object, nothing more.
This creates problems for Evolutionists when it comes to
existing information in the genetic code for example. The genetic code is a
representation of the human body. According to evolution the genetic code came
from unintelligent matter; but we just learned that material matter cannot
produce its own representation. DNA, the blue print for the human body, contains
the information for making and maintaining a human body; but DNA, if left to
itself, can neither reproduce itself or decipher the information stored in
itself to create the needed proteins to create and maintain the human body.
First, If there is information in a DNA molecule it had to come from an
intelligent outside source, it could not be self generated. Second, DNA is
nothing more than a blue print for the creation and maintenance of a body, like
the blue print for a car. Just as the blue print for a car cannot make a car,
neither can the DNA molecule make and maintain a human body. An outside
intelligent source is required to extract the information from the DNA molecule
to make the body just as an intelligent outside source is required to extract
the information from the blue prints to make a car. This is what is meant by the
Einstein Gulf. It is less impossible and ridiculous to believe you could
walk out into a field of stones and find the works of Shakespear written by
chance than to believe the highly ordered complex information in DNA came about
by chance. Without an intelligent creator we cannot explain the existing
information in the DNA or the DNA molecule at all.
DNA is a language just like any other language. It has
letters, it has an alphabet of four letters. It has words which are all three
letters long. It has sentences, it has punctuation, it has a dictionary. It has
everything we find in a human language. Therefore it is a true language which
communicates how physical human life exists; it is equal to any language because
it shares the same qualities, grammatical qualities and so forth. As one looks
at the world, one finds that information does not exist apart from an
intelligent source which created that information. A dictionary is thousands of
times less complicated than a DNA molecule, but you would be laughed in the face
if you claimed it came about by chance.
How much information is contained in the Human DNA? Some have
estimated that it is several sets of encyclopedias of information. Not only is
DNA a blue print for life, but is specifically designed for the life and
function of each different kind of creature. Take the Ameba for example: not
only does DNA specify all its needed proteins but is also equipped to deal with
any possible factors within the environment that it lives. This is true for any
living form on earth. Wherever they are found, we find that their genetic code
has built in factors to deal with and adjust to the environment they find
themselves in. This shows omnipotent intelligent design.
Evolutionists in some ways admit that information is the
result of intelligence. For example: when evolutionary scientists are looking
for ETs in the universe, they tune their radios toward space to listen for a
message. If they were to find a radio message from outer space that did not
originate from earth, How would they know that it came from an intelligent
source? Because of the fact that it contains information. Where did the
information come from? It had to come from an intelligent source. This then
would be their proof that there is intelligent life in the universe. However,
they are inconsistent when the evidence points to divine intelligence. They look
at the DNA molecule which is many times more complex and full of complex
information than a possible radio message from outer space and assume that it did
not come from an intelligent source but only by chance random collisions of
molecules.
Piano sheet music by itself is of no more value than a rock.
The same is true of the piano. However if an intelligent human being who knows
how to decipher the sheet music and transcribe it to the keyes of the piano sits
down and plays the piano, you then have music full of intelligent beautiful
information to the hearer. In the same way the DNA molecule, though a highly
complex molecule, is of no more value than any other material object by itself.
This is why if even you were to have DNA molecules floating around in the ocean,
this does not constitute intelligent information. This is because there is
nothing there to decode the information for an intended intelligent purpose. We
call the DNA information only because within the living cell are mechanisms
which are able to decipher that code into messenger RNA which is then able to
translate it into Protein molecules for a beneficial purpose which means
intelligent design. However, there is no useful information in the DNA without
the living cell to decode and use it.
Not only did God create the DNA molecule but a system which is able to read
this blue print to create the human body. This incredible living design shows
the character and the infinite intelligence of our Creator.