Page 64 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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. . . it is clear that cells are immensely complex entities. . . more than
a number in a jumbo jet. . . the complexity of a jumbo jet packed in-
to a speck of dust invisible to the human eye. It is hardly conceiva-
ble that anything more complex could be compacted into such a small
volume. Moreover, it is a speck-sized jumbo jet which can duplicate it-
self quite effortlessly 46

DNA's ability to hold information is so efficient that all the
data concerning to a human being can be compressed
into an area weighing just a few trillionths of a
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gram. According to Yale University's Prof. Ge-
orge Gaylord Simpson, the data belonging 1
billion living things can be squeezed with ease
into a single grain of salt. 48
Prof. Francis S. Collins, a physicist and
geneticist and also director of the National
Human Genome Research Ins-
titute, describes the results
of his study of DNA:

Now fifty years
since Watson and
Crick unraveled
the structure of the
double helix, I think it
is amazing to contem-
plate the elegance of DNA carrying informa-
tion . . . This digital code allows, in a very easily
copyable form, such a massive amount of information
to be carried inside each cell of the human body. This
double helix DNA is made up of base pair letters. The whole hu-
man genome consists of three billion of these base pairs all packaged in-
side the cell's nucleus. . . The three billion letters are able to direct all of
the biological properties of a human being. 49