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The Dark Spell of Darwinism
each gene has about 1000 letters (links) in it. So
the bacterium's DNA must be at least 2 million
letters in length.
A human being has over 500 times as many
genes as a bacterium, so the DNA must be at
least 1 billion letters in length.
The bacterium's DNA would be equivalent to
20 average novels, each of 100,000 words, and
the human's to 10,000 such novels! 18
How large, then, is the DNA molecule that
Carl Sagan
contains so much information?
The late Carl Sagan, one of the proponents of contemporary evolution,
refers to the immensity of the store of information DNA contains:
DNA is a data bank containing all the information
relevant to a living creature. Our every aspect,
from our outward appearance to our inner or-
gans, is encoded in DNA.
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