Page 72 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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*Were the information in DNA to be placed in books piled one on
top of the other, those books would attain a height of 70 meters (229

feet). Alternatively, that information could fill 200 phone books of 500
pages each. 61
*If the DNA in all the cells in the human body were flattened out
and laid end to end, they would stretch for some 50,000,000 kilometers
(31,070,000 miles.) That distance is enough to go from the Earth to the
Solar System. Light would take approximately two days to travel the
entire length of the DNA in your body. 62
*According to professor Jérôme Lejeune, a genetics expert, the ge-
netic data belonging to all the human beings on Earth could be con-
tained in a quantity of DNA no larger than a few aspirin tablets. 63
*The information in the DNA in a single human cell could fill 1

million encyclopedia pages. Individuals could not live long enough to
read their own genetic data. Where they to read the DNA code every
day, 24 hours a day, non-stop, it would take 100 years to complete the
task.
*To envisage the density of the data in the DNA molecule, assume
that you have enough DNA to cover a pinhead. Now consider that this
same information is written down in books of 160 pages each. The da-
ta in such a small amount of DNA could fill 15 trillion (15 times 1012)
of those 160-page books. If you placed that many books one on top of
the other, their height would be 500 times the distance between the
Earth and the Moon (384,000 kilometers, or 238,600 miles). Alternati-
vely, if these books were equally distributed among the 6 billion or so
people in the world, every individual would receive 2,500 volumes. 64

The boundless information that these examples try to express is
stored inside every cell nucleus. The presence of DNA, storing the
equivalent amount of information to a large library, in some 100 trillion
cells, means 100 trillion of these libraries. Were we to compare that lev-
el of information with the level so far achieved by mankind, we would