Here is What The Complexity of DNA Coding Tells Us About Individual Rights

Among the most incredible advances in all of human history is the cracking of the DNA code because, among so much else, it makes clear how amazingly complex is the structure within just a single cell of the human body. Multiply that complexity by the trillions of cells required to make up one human being.

For all of its complexity, however, the essential lesson of the DNA code is this: DNA code is information and information requires intelligence. As Dr. Frank Turek put it, “the message found in a one-celled amoeba is about the equivalent of 1,000 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.”

For those of you who’ve never heard of the Encyclopedia Britannica, this was a collection of hardback books that decades ago was sold by pesky door-to-door salesmen.

These peddlers promised buyers their product, which usually consisted of about 24 volumes arranged in alphabetical order, contained all the information one needed to understand the world around us.

No More Door-to-Door Salesmen

But then Google wrote an algorithm that put all those poor, hungry door-to-door guys out of a job because you no longer needed a bunch of hardback books on a shelf, you just went to Google Search. Who needs a bunch of cumbersome books when you have all of world’s knowledge at your fingertips with just a couple of mouse clicks, right? (Tongue modestly in cheek here).

Turek adds that:

“The order of letters in the genetic code, while expressed in chemical known as DNA, is not determined by physical forces any more than the order of the words in this sentence is determined by physical forces. In other words, just like the laws of ink and paper cannot explain the order of the letters in this sentence, the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology cannot explain the order of the letters in your DNA.”

In other words, to continue with Turek’s explanation, if you find your Alpha Bits breakfast arranged in a message on the kitchen table one morning, you can be absolutely certain that somebody is trying to tell you something. Those letters didn’t just happen to be arranged like that by chance, an earthquake, or the expansion of air inside the cereal box.

Or to put it another way, Mac Air laptops, the Affordable Care Act, and Teslas don’t assemble themselves or merely appear out of nothingness, somebody has to conceive, design, obtain the needed materials, and assemble them in the proper sequence.

Now, About Individual Rights:

So, what is the relevance of this analysis for you if it happens that you are an aide working for a senator, representative or congressional committee?

Consider this: If human beings originate from nothing more than chance combinations of physical matter and energy, then what we understand as individual rights are nothing more than whatever a majority of us agree on at any given moment, or that one or a group of us impose on everybody else by force or deception.

But if human beings originate in the mind of an intelligent designer — AKA “God” — then what our Declaration of Independence called “certain inalienable rights” we are each given by our creator are vastly more concrete and valuable than mere fleeting opinion or transitory force. We Americans recognize the place of those rights in our society with our Constitution.

And if God is the source of individual rights, then kings, presidents, parliaments, parties, and congresses must respect them. The technical application here is known as “the separation of church and state,” or, to put it in contemporary terms, the separation of ideology and individual rights.

By the way, this is not an argument for a theocracy. Far from it. What it is, friends, colleagues and mere acquaintances, is an argument for politicians and bureaucrats to keep their hands off our individual freedoms, including freedom of speech, thought, religion, assembly and petition for change. Or to put it simply, the Bill of Rights.

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