Unraveling the Mystery: DNA and the Miracle of Life 

How does the embryo "know" how to develop into its form, to build, step by step, all the complex organs, the skeletal system, arteries, capillaries, and nerves?

The knowledge to build the body is contained within the nucleus of a living cell, known as DNA.

Every cell in our body contains genetic material in the form of DNA, which can be likened to a detailed library of information on the construction of organs and cells. Human DNA contains 3 billion nucleotides, which can be thought of as letters. To write down all the vast information of the human genome, it would require a stack of 2,000 books that would reach a height of 60 meters and together contain a million pages.

It turns out that a vast library of genetic information is folded into a tiny coil within the nucleus of a cell, yet its size does not exceed 5 micrometers (a thousand micrometers equals one millimeter)! It’s hard to believe, but the nucleus of a cell is 17 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.

The immense complexity of life is not only found in the human body. Even the genetic information of a "simple" bacterium like E. coli contains about 3 million nucleotides.

Biophysicist Dr. Harold Morowitz [2] calculated that for a single bacterium, it would take much longer than the entire age of the universe if the sole driving force behind its creation were random combinations of molecules. Most people are unaware of how low the probability of random fitting is. To illustrate: what do you think are the chances that a random shuffle of 52 cards will lead to their correct arrangement? Although it’s just 52 cards, the number of variations for their arrangement is astronomical: 80 million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion. This enormous number looks like this: 80,658,175,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

The probability of random fitting is just 1 out of the vast number above.

Some estimate the age of the universe to be 13 billion years, but this number is minuscule compared to the probability of 52 successful genes! Let alone 3 billion genes in human DNA.

It turns out that belief in "luck" cannot contend with the immense complexity of a living cell, animals, and the human body.

Chemist Dr. Roland Hirsch wrote: “Life as revealed by new technologies is more complicated than the Darwinian viewpoint anticipated. Thus evolutionary theory, which was considered to be a key foundation of biology in 1959, today has a more peripheral role. … modern science makes it possible to be a scientifically informed doubter of Darwinian theories of evolution.” [3]

Science is groping in the dark and is only beginning to uncover what God revealed to us at Science is groping in the dark and is only beginning to uncover what God revealed to us at Mount Sinai thousands of years ago: “And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so. “ And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.” (Genesis 1:24-27). [4]

The Lord made everything with wisdom that has no bounds, and science is gradually approaching this knowledge from generation to generation.

[1]- Original article by Daniel Balas – (Hebrew)  - https://www.hidabroot.org/article/1198722

[2]- Biophysicist Dr. Harold Morowitz- https://philpapers.org/rec/MORTEO-7, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_J._Morowitz

[3] - Dr. Roland Hirsch -https://robertcliftonrobinson.com/2019/02/18/1000-scientists-who-say-evolution-is-wrong/

[4] - (Genesis 1:24-27)- https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htm