Mario Seiglie
Recent discoveries about DNA—including the finding that
so-called "junk DNA" is anything but—once again clearly points to a
supreme Intelligence having imbedded an incredible multifaceted code in
our genes.
When first discovered, scientists believed that DNA was a somewhat
simple genetic code filled with what they termed "junk DNA," useless
bits assumed to be evolutionary remnants from our supposed ancestors.
But now they have found the code to be astoundingly complex,
multilayered and even bidirectional.
On Sept. 5, 2012, The New York Times reported: "The human
genome is packed with at least four million gene switches that reside
in bits of DNA that once were dismissed as "junk" but that turn out to
play critical roles in controlling how cells, organs and other tissues
behave . . .
"The thought before the start of the [DNA] project, said Thomas
Gingeras, an Encode researcher from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, was
that only 5 to 10 percent of the DNA in a human being was actually being
used. The big surprise was not only that almost all of the DNA is used
but also that a large proportion of it is gene switches.
"Before Encode, said Dr. John Stamatoyanno-poulos, a University of
Washington scientist who was part of the project, 'if you had said half
of the genome and probably more has instructions for turning genes on
and off, I don't think people would have believed you'" ("Bits of
Mystery DNA, Far From 'Junk,' Play Crucial Role," Sept. 5, 2012, online
edition).
The astounding complexity of the DNA code was the main reason Sir
Antony Flew, the late world-famous philosopher who had been the leading
atheist in England, renounced his atheism a few years back and accepted
the existence of a divine intelligence behind it all.
He wrote: "What I think the DNA material has done is that it has
shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which
are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved
in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together" ( There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, 2007, p. 75).
Let's see some of the examples of the incredible complexity of the DNA code.
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