Back in the 60s, one of the best shows on TV was Danger Man, or, as it was known in the US, Secret Agent Man. It starred Patrick McGoohan. Like other spy-genre shows in the 60s every once in a while it would have a story line that featured microdots. Microdots were hot stuff. The idea that man had developed the ingenuity to be able to store a page of information on a dot the size of a period in a sentence was incredible stuff. In fact, I think in one episode, maybe not Danger Man, the microdot actually was the period at the end of a sentence.
So, how does DNA compare to human microdot technology? How much information, for example, could be contained in a teaspoon's worth of DNA? According to molecular biologist Michael Denton, a teaspoon could contain all the DNA information needed to build the proteins for every species of organisms that have ever lived on the earth and 'there would still be enough room left for all the information in every book ever written' (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 1996, p. 334). Source: Mario Seiglie - http://gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode.htm
If all it took to preserve life on earth was DNA, Noah's ark could have been a thimble.
When you see a microdot with stored, imprinted information, you know that an impressive intelligence is at work.
What do you see when you see DNA, perhaps a billion times more potent and with the same ability to store and specify information?
The human race splits into two on this. Many, those who wield power in western academic circles, say that it is written by no-one, a non-intelligent, non-existent nothing. DNA just happened; dust turned into Dostoevsky. Further, they insist that this, their view, must be the only option presented to students. Others see something else -- evidence of a not-so secret Agent at work.
Some look at a flower and see nothing but molecules arranged by time and chance and environment; others see an Artist.
I see an Artist that I'd like to get to know.
How about you?
It's your call.
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