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Study Section14: Information: a Demonstration of Intelligence

14.1 Connect.

Have you ever played a game using dice? Dice have numbers printed on all six sides, each
one progressing from 1 to 6. When you throw the dice down, it will land on one of those
numbers facing up. Every time you throw the dice down, you have a 1 in 6 chance of rolling
a certain number. It is all random. When trying to roll a certain number, you have to rely on
chance. Eventually, if you keep rolling the dice you will finally by chance obtain a certain
number. You might get it the first time you throw the dice, but it may take many throws to finally obtain
a certain number. Today we will look at the complexity of the similiest amino acid which is the
foundation of proteins which are the foundation of all our tissues in our body. We will see what the
probability of the a small protein being formed by rote chance (evolution), like rolling a dice…

14.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to explain the complexity of the DNA molecule to see how all the
information for life resides in this complex molecule.

2. The student should be able to describe the probability is for a simple protein being randomly
formed from a pool of amino acids.

3. The student should be able to show that the probability of any living thing being formed by rote
chance is basically impossible.

14.3 Information: a Demonstration of Intelligence

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) – the minutest complexity of life

DNA exists in every single cell. You have one hundred or so trillion cells in your body. Every
one of those cells has a little physical strip of DNA. It is a coiled copy of coded information.

There are 46 segments in that little coil. Twenty-three of those came from your
father and twenty-three of those came from your mother to make the 46. DNA
determines exactly how every single cell in your body is to function throughout
your entire life. The information embedded into the DNA molecule provides the
instructions for all of the cell’s life functions. To the right is what a segment of a
DNA molecule looks like…

If the 46 segments of DNA in just one of your cells we uncoiled and stretched
out, it would be seven-feet long. It would be really thin. It would be so thin that
we couldn’t see it under an electron microscope. But if it were stretched out it
would be seven-feet long. If all of the DNA in your body were stretched out and

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