Intelligent Being Required
(or Johnny and the Garbage part two).
Naturalistic biologists assert that life generated spontaneously from non living chemicals by natural laws without any intelligent intervention. Such a theory might have seemed plausible to a nineteenth-century scientist who didn’t have the technology to investigate the cell and discover its amazing complexity.
DNA has a helical structure that looks like a twisted ladder. The sides of the ladder are formed by alternating deoxyribose and phosphate molecules, and the rungs of the ladder consist of a specific order of four nitrogen bases. These nitrogen bases are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine, which commonly are represented by the letters A, T, C, and G. These letters comprise what is known as the four-letter terms of its ability to communicate a message, except that the genetic alphabet has only four letters instead of twenty-six. Just as the specific order of A,T,C, and G within a living cell determines the unique genetic makeup of that living entity. Another name for that message or information, whether it’s in a sentence or in DNA, is “specified complexity.” In other words, not only is it complex – it also contains a specific message.
The incredible specified complexity of life becomes obvious when one considers the message found in the DNA of a one-celled amoeba (a creature so small, several hundred could be lined up in an inch). Staunch Darwinist Richard Dawkins, professor of zoology at Oxford University, admits that the message found in just one cell nucleus of a tiny amoeba is more than all thirty volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica combined, and the entire amoeba has as much information in its DNA as 1,000 complete sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica! In other words, if you were to spell out all of the A, T, C, and G in the “unjustly called ‘primitive’ amoeba”, the letters would fill 1,000 complete sets of encyclopedia!
Now, we must emphasize that these 1,000 encyclopedias do not consist of random letters but of letters in a very specific order-just like a real encyclopedias. So here’s the key question for Darwinists like Dawkins: if simple messages such as “Take out the garbage-Mom,” and “Mary loves Scott,” require an intelligent being, then why doesn’t a message 1,000 encyclopedias long require one?
Taken from I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
