Page 50 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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If the total amount of genetic information–the genome, in other
words–is compared to a library, every book in that library represents a
chromosome, and the chapters in the books are genes. Genes are rath-

er like the headings in a giant encyclopedia, containing a detailed blue-
print of a human being's biologic characteristics. 25
The chromosomes passed on by way of inheritance are deter-
mined by the different arrangements of the four chemical bases consti-
tuting the DNA steps. Thousands of these steps, or base pairs, consti-
tute a single gene. James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of DNA's
structure, notes that base sequences are the source of the differ-
ences in genes:
The four nucleotides were not however, completely dif-
ferent, for each contained the same sugar and phosphate
components. Their uniqueness lay in their nitrogenous
bases, which were either a purine (adenine and gua-
nine) or a pyrimidine (cytosine and thymine) . . . If
the base sequences were always the same, all DNA
molecules would be identical. And there would not ex-
ist the variability that must distinguish one gene from
another. 26

From these four base sequences, Allah has created
billions of different human beings and keeps creat-
ing. Thanks to the flawless order that Allah cre-
ated in DNA, human beings emerge with a
detailed and complex structure and the rich
characteristics they possess.

The packaging of DNA is one of the proofs of creation. A chro-
mosome is a total of 1nanometer thick–one billionth of a milli-
meter. The packaging of a DNA molecule 4 meters long into a
space too small to be seen with the naked eye; the way it is
read and unraveled with no confusion arising when it needs to
be copied, is evidence that the organization within the cell is
the work of our Omniscient and Almighty Lord.