DNA: Evidence for Creation and a Divine Blueprint? Would Darwin Change His Mind?
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a molecule and a nucleic acid that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, and reproduction of all known living organisms, including viruses. A DNA molecule contains two biopolymer strands coiled around each other to form a double helix structure. The DNA molecule was first identified in the 1860s by Swiss chemist Johann Friedrich Miescher. In the early 1950’s, two scientists, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins studied DNA using x-rays. Franklin produced an x-ray photograph that allowed two other researchers, James Watson and Francis Crick to determine the 3D structure of the DNA, which was determined to be a double-helix structure. DNA contains the genetic code or blueprint for all living organisms and supplies the instructions for making all of the proteins in the human body.
With the discovery of DNA, many wonder if Charles Darwin would have changed his mind about his beliefs in macroevolution. Now that scientists today know that every living thing has genetic blueprints inside its cells, the question arises of whether DNA implies a unique creation for humans and all living things. Evolutionists praise the discovery of DNA and believe that it implies that life had a naturalistic origin. However, creationists reach a different conclusion in that the processes that created life could not have evolved over millions of years and a unique creation must have occurred from the beginning. Creationists also believe that structures such as DNA are too complex to have evolved naturalistically and that there must have been a higher power to install or create such complex structures. According to American biochemist Dr. Duane Gish, the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that processes occur from order to disorder, or that entropy increases unless an energy source is added. Gish also references the sudden occurrence of complex organisms in the fossil record and the gaps between different kinds of fossils that imply the sudden creation of living organisms.
With the discovery of DNA, many wonder if Charles Darwin would have changed his mind about his beliefs in macroevolution. Now that scientists today know that every living thing has genetic blueprints inside its cells, the question arises of whether DNA implies a unique creation for humans and all living things. Evolutionists praise the discovery of DNA and believe that it implies that life had a naturalistic origin. However, creationists reach a different conclusion in that the processes that created life could not have evolved over millions of years and a unique creation must have occurred from the beginning. Creationists also believe that structures such as DNA are too complex to have evolved naturalistically and that there must have been a higher power to install or create such complex structures. According to American biochemist Dr. Duane Gish, the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that processes occur from order to disorder, or that entropy increases unless an energy source is added. Gish also references the sudden occurrence of complex organisms in the fossil record and the gaps between different kinds of fossils that imply the sudden creation of living organisms.
