Page 22 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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pears at the moment to
be almost a miracle. 2

Richard Dawkins,
known for his evolu-
tionist views, describes
the complexity concealed
within the cell:
Physics books may be complicated, but
. . . the objects and phenomena that a phys-
ics book describes are simpler than a single
cell in the body of its author. And the author
consists of trillions of those cells, many of them
different from each other, organized with intri-
cate architecture and precision--engineering in-
to a working machine capable of writing a book. . . . Each
nucleus . . . contains a digitally coded database larger, in information con-
tent, than all thirty volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica put together.
And this figure is for each [individual] cell, not all the cells of the body
put together. 3
If you had found a CD on your desk 25 years ago, and even if yo-
u had never seen one before, you would still never try attempt to ac-
count for its existence in terms of chance. Despite its being a very thin,
flat, round piece of plastic, the regularity of its shape would still make

it clear that it had been produced by an intelligent, knowledgeable hu-
man being. Even if you never met the person who designed and man-
ufactured that CD, you would still never claim that metals and plastics
had assumed such a perfect form as the result of successive accidents.
And what if you learned, through a detailed examination of the
CD's structure, that in indentations and protrusions on its surface, there
was information coded in the form of the numbers 0 and 1? At first
glance it appeared like just a flat plastic disc, but were it enlarged to the