So my brain was wandering this past week and I was thinking about how improbable the whole evolution argument is and I came away with 2 intriguing thoughts that I wanted to throw out here.
1) If life supposedly began around 3.8 - 4 billion years ago and there are approximately 3 billion base pairs of DNA in the Human Genome, than wouldn't it stand to reason that on average, for every 4 years of your life, you should GAIN a new base pair of DNA?? You would keep these and pass them on to your children, an then your children would gain a bunch of new base pairs on top of yours and then pass them on to their children ... etc, etc.... With this in mind, I would think we should all be wildly divergent from one another. And of course this assumes that these are all added on end to end (sequentially) to form new genes. What if they were just randomly placed in our genetic code, that could be disastrous.
2) DNA is often described as the blueprint for life, and rightly so. I mean really, life simply cannot exist without this most basic of set of instructions. But I think we're still missing something. If I were to give you a blue print to build my dream house, could you do it? Most likely not. You actually need to be able to understand what it takes to build a house to do this. This morning I found this breakdown of DNA, and what it codes for.
That's a lot of stuff, but where in the world in all this DNA does it tell a liver "how" to be a liver. Where in here would it tell a cell how to initiate it's own death in a "complex cascade of carefully coordinated events" (Apoptosis)? It would seem to me that DNA codes for Parts and Supplies. nothing more. We need a builder to make all this work.
1) If life supposedly began around 3.8 - 4 billion years ago and there are approximately 3 billion base pairs of DNA in the Human Genome, than wouldn't it stand to reason that on average, for every 4 years of your life, you should GAIN a new base pair of DNA?? You would keep these and pass them on to your children, an then your children would gain a bunch of new base pairs on top of yours and then pass them on to their children ... etc, etc.... With this in mind, I would think we should all be wildly divergent from one another. And of course this assumes that these are all added on end to end (sequentially) to form new genes. What if they were just randomly placed in our genetic code, that could be disastrous.
2) DNA is often described as the blueprint for life, and rightly so. I mean really, life simply cannot exist without this most basic of set of instructions. But I think we're still missing something. If I were to give you a blue print to build my dream house, could you do it? Most likely not. You actually need to be able to understand what it takes to build a house to do this. This morning I found this breakdown of DNA, and what it codes for.
That's a lot of stuff, but where in the world in all this DNA does it tell a liver "how" to be a liver. Where in here would it tell a cell how to initiate it's own death in a "complex cascade of carefully coordinated events" (Apoptosis)? It would seem to me that DNA codes for Parts and Supplies. nothing more. We need a builder to make all this work.
