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DNA’S MIRACULOUS DESIGN

All the information about the bodies of living beings is en-
coded in the huge DNA molecules found within the nucleus of
each cell. Living beings’ DNA is formed by hundred of thou-
sands of small molecules called nucleotides, of which there are
four types. Their sequence is specific to each species. Each
species’ DNA contains the codes of that species’ characteristics.

The same is true for humans. It’s thanks to our DNA sequence
that man as a species is different from all other life forms; and
each man’s DNA makes him slightly different from every other
man. We can compare nucleotides to letters in the alphabet.
Since there are four different nucleotides, we can liken the DNA
to a huge encyclopedia composed with an alphabet of four let-
ters.

The sequence of the “letters” in the DNA molecule deter-
mines every detail of the human body. Besides details like height
and the color of eyes, hair and skin, the blueprint for all 206
bones, 600 muscles, network of 10,000 hearing nerves, two mil-
lion optic nerves, 100 million nerve cells and more than 100 tril-
lion other cells is contained in every cell’s DNA. If all the genetic
information stored in the DNA were committed to printed
pages, they would fill 900 volumes of 500 pages each. But this
huge quantity of DNA information is encoded within the micro-

scopic cell’s nucleus.
The data contained in one DNA molecule would fill one
million pages. In other words, a million encyclopedia pages’

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