Page 31 - The Miracle of Creation in DNA
P. 31
muscular spasms appear in the arms,
legs and face. Since this fatal and
incurable disease also affects the brain,
the sufferer's memory and powers of
thought grow progressively weaker.
All these genetic diseases reveal
one important fact: the genetic code is
so sensitive and balanced, and so
minutely calculated, that the smallest
change can lead to very serious
consequences. One letter too many or
too few can lead to fatal sicknesses, or
ADowns Syndrome child with
lifelong crippling effects. For this
one extra chromosome in the
reason, it is definitely impossible to st
21 chromosome pair.
think that such a sensitive equilibrium
came about by chance and developed by means of mutations, as the
theory of evolution would have us believe. That being the case, how did
the enormous information within DNA come about and how was it
encoded? Evolutionists, who base the roots of life on coincidences, have
actually no comment to make on the subject of the roots of life. When you
ask them about the roots of DNA, in other words the genetic code, you get
the same reply from all of them. Leslie E. Orgel for instance, one of the
foremost evolutionist biochemists of our time, offers the following reply:
We do not understand even the general features of the origin of the genetic
code . . . [It] is the most baffling aspect of the problem of the origins of life
and a major conceptual or experimental breakthrough may be needed
before we can make any substantial progress. 5
Those who claim that millions of pages, billions of pieces of
information were written by chance are of course left quite speechless in
this way. In the same way that every book or piece of information has a
writer or owner, so does the information in DNA: and that Creator is our
Lord God, the possessor of superior and infinite knowledge and reason.
DNA: The Data Source of Life 29