Page 63 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Adnan Oktar

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Even the very smallest components of living things have been created
for a specific purpose, and every one of them are far too complex to ad-
mit any possibility of chance.

Michael George Pitman, a professor of biology from University of
Sydney, uses the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's words to
express how life is not just a collection of inanimate substances:
Every organism is organic through and through in all its parts, and no-
where are these, not even in their smallest particles, mere aggregates of
inorganic matter. 43
If we were to express the volume of data in
DNA in numerical terms, then a 4-meter (13.12-foot)
long DNA molecule has been packaged and compressed

into a cell only 3 to 5 microns in diameter (1 micron =
1/1000 millimeter). If the DNA codes in every one of the body's
100 trillion cells were laid out end to end, the resulting length would
stretch to the Sun and back 600 times. 44
Prof. Jerry Bergman, known for his scientific papers, emphasizes
the engineering in DNA in an analogy:
Suppose you were asked to take two long strands of fisherman's mono-
filament line –125 miles [201 kilometers] long– then form it into a double-
helix structure and neatly fold and pack this line so it would fit into a bas-
ketball. Furthermore, you would need to ensure that the double helix
could be unzipped and duplicated along the length of this line, and the
duplicate copy removed, all without tangling the line. Possible? This is
directly analogous to what happens in the billions of cells in your body
every day. Scale the basketball down to the size of a human cell and the
line scales down to six feet [2 meters] of DNA. . . . The DNA packing proc-
ess is both complex and elegant and is so efficient that it achieves a reduc-
tion in length of DNA by a factor of 1 million. 45
The molecular biologist Michael Denton describes the extraordi-
nary nature of DNA's data compression ability: