Who Wrote The Books: 48 feet of library shelves

Albert Einstein was neither a Christian nor a believing Jew. He was, on a good day, a deist. More often and persistently, he was agnostic. The one thing he was not was an atheist.

He describes three levels of religious belief. The first is a wonder at the order, complexity, grandeur and mystery of the universe. The second is commitment to moral order and social betterment; the third, belief in a supernatural creator, which he viewed as childish and superstitious. Our theme quote reflects a level-one view:

"We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."

Turns out, Einstein was more perceptive than he realized. With the discovery of DNA, we now know that life is passed on not through some mindless slimy process but through the transmittal of encoded information that amounts to a language. The quantity of information transmitted to produce a new human being exceeds that of an encyclopedia. In all of human experience, encoded instructional information always comes from intelligence. Moreover, information is understood to be something apart from the medium by which it is transmitted. Instructions for a recipe, for example, could be written in a book, could be orally transmitted, could be encoded in braille, pictograms and symbols, etc. In all of human experience, information implies intelligence. DNA encoding is powerful evidence for intelligence at work. Atheists are forced, as they are when they deny the implications of the fine-tuning of the universe, to treat the DNA evidence as "the exception to the rule".

Over the next several days, I'm going to run quotes dealing with the wonders of DNA. Here goes:

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"The amount of information in human DNA is roughly equivalent to 12 sets of The Encyclopaedia Britannica—an incredible 384 volumes' worth of detailed information that would fill 48 feet of library shelves" -- Mario Seiglie

http://gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode.htm

So, let me ask the question: who wrote the books?