Bike lock DNA

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So DNA contains the instructions on how to build a living thing, right down to the chemistry within the cell.

If you wanted a computer to perform a new task, what would it need? You would have to give it instructions, information, code. In the same way, life forms carry their self-replicating information within the DNA in all of their cells. But where did the original set of instructions come from for each life form?



Biologists are well aware that information was essential for the origin of each life form. The puzzle this situation puts to them is called the "information enigma."

Materialists and atheists must explain the existence of information by random chance alone. The video above demonstrates the the overwhelming odds against such an explanation, and suggests that intelligent agency is the only thing we have ever seen which can produce information.

That bike lock analogy? Watch the video to see how it illustrates the incredibly remote chance that life and species developed entirely by random chance.

For every good protein (string of amino acids in correct sequence), there are *10 to the 77th power* combinations of amino proteins that do not yield a good protein. The odds against random chance producing just one good protein are the same as hacking the right combination on a bike lock with 77 dials, with 10 possible digits in each dial.

DNA Code

You know what DNA is, that immensely complicated and big molecule at the center of all the cells in your body - and all the cells in every living thing. Segments of DNA are genes that code for how the cell must build a perfect, working protein .

There are thousands of proteins. Each protein is a string of amino acids, and a short protein is 150 amino acids long in a specific order. If one of these proteins (string of amino acids) is incorrectly assembled, it is destroyed by a quality control mechanism because they must be perfect.

So what are the odds that a code could develop by accident - randomly - to instruct a living body to build the thousands of proteins necessary for life?  The odds are small, like trying to hack a bike lock.

More on the bike lock analogy tomorrow.
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