CONSIDER THIS: If DNA is the Code of Life, Who Wrote It?
(9:38 VIDEO) — Darwinian evolutionary theory explains an awful lot about the billions of creatures who occupy the Earth, but there is one fact it cannot explain and that “just happens” to be the most important of all facts.
Dr. Stephen Meyer — Director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, and author of three landmark bestsellers — Darwin’s Doubt, Signature in the Cell, and Return of the God Hypothesis — explains this reality in these words from the following video:
“What do we know about the origin of information? Bill Gates has said DNA is like a software program, but much more complex than any we’ve ever created. Richard Dawkins himself has acknowledged that DNA is like a machine code, again, computer code. Well, where does computer code come from? Where does software code come from? It comes from a programmer, it’s a mind product, a product of intelligence.
“What we know from our uniform and repeated experience, which is the basis of all scientific reasoning, is that information always arises from an intelligent source, whether we’re talking about computer code or a paragraph in a book or a hieroglyphic inscription or the information transmitted as we’re talking or across a radio signal, information is in our experience a product of intelligence.”
And that raises the fundamental question – where does that intelligence come from? In the case of DNA and the origin of human life, it clearly had to come from a source outside of human life, otherwise human life would be self-created, which is contradictory.
Call it whatever you wish — God, Intelligent Design, the Creator, etc. etc. — but there it is and this reality points to the conclusion that, whatever other value evolutionary theory might offer, it cannot explain the origin of human life. This 9:38 video is extremely accessible for those of us who aren’t practicing scientists and, best of all, Meyer has a gift for explaining these issues in a way that is highly accessible to laymen: