Page 66 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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25,000 pages. This gives rise to an extraor-
dinary picture. Inside the nucleus, itself far
smaller than the microscopic cell in which it

is contained; is a data bank 40 times larger
than one of the largest encyclopedias on
Earth, equivalent to a 920-volume encyclo-
pedia. Research has shown that this giant
encyclopedia contains some 5 billion differ-
ent pieces of information. Let's repeat those
two words, "contains information"
We now need to stop and think about
what this means. It is easy enough to say that
a cell contains billions of pieces of informa-
tion. However, we are discussing not a com-
puter or a library, but an area 100 times
smaller than a millimeter made up solely of
protein, fat and water molecules. It would be

astonishing for only a single piece of infor-
mation, let alone millions, to be contained
inside this tiny molecule. Moreover, books
and encyclopedias are inert and inanimate.
Someone possessed of consciousness needs
to read the information and act on the in-
structions it contains. Yet DNA is a living
source of information that does not just con-
tain data, but also uses that information and
acts upon it.
How can a chain consisting of atoms ar-
ranged one behind the other, in a space just
a billionth of a millimeter in diameter, pos-
sess such knowledge and memory? While