Page 80 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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er characteristics all come into being by the commands of rele-
vant genes. We may compare these genes to the pages of a book
written with only the letters A, T, G and C.

There are some 30,000 genes in a human cell's DNA. Every gene
consists of between 1,000 and 186,000 nucleotides arranged in a par-
ticular sequence, depending on the kind of protein to which it corre-
sponds. These genes contain the codes for some 200,000 proteins that
operate inside the human body, and also regulate the production
of those same proteins. The information contained by these
30,000 genes represents only 3% of the total information that
DNA contains. The data in the remaining 97% is still un-
known, but it has been established that this portion
contains information essential to the activities of
the cell. (For more detail, see the Chapter 12,
"How the Miracle of DNA Invalidates the The-
ory of Evolution.")
Genes exist inside chromosomes, and

there are 46 chromosomes in the nucleus of
every human cell (apart from the reproduc-
tive cells). To compare every chromosome
to a volume consisting of pages in the form
of genes, then we can say that in each cell,
there is a 46-volume cellular encyclopedia
containing all of a human being's character-
istics. As we've already made clear, this cel-
lular encyclopedia contains an amount of in-
formation equivalent to a 920-volume Encyclo-
pedia Britannica.
The arrangement of the letters in every indi-
vidual's DNA is different. That is why all the peo-
ple who have ever lived have been different from