How
is it that every single one of the 100 trillion cells in the human body
possesses unbelievable intelligence, information and ability? These are, after
all, piles of atoms, and they are unconscious. Take the atoms of all the
elements, combine them in different forms and numbers, obtain different
molecules, and still you can never obtain wisdom. Whether these molecules are
big or small, simple or complex does not matter. You can never obtain a mind
that will consciously organize any process and accomplish it.
Then
how can it be that DNA, which is composed of the arrangement of a certain number
of unwise and unconscious atoms in certain sequences and enzymes working in a
harmonious way, is able to organize countless complicated and diverse operations
in the cell in a perfect and complete manner? The answer to this is very simple;
wisdom is not in these molecules or in the cell that contains them, but in the
self who has brought these molecules into being, programming them to function as
they do. Shortly put, wisdom is present not in the work done, but in the creator
of that work.
Even
the most developed computer is the product of a wisdom and intellect that has
written and installed the programs to operate and then use it. Likewise, the
cell, including the DNA and RNA in it, and the human being made up of these
cells, are nothing but the works of the One who created them as well as what
they do. No matter how perfect, complete and striking the work is, the wisdom
always lies with the owner of the work.
Who,
Why, Where?
If
you saw one meaningful sentence in your notebook on the table, you would be
curious to know who wrote it. You would never think that the notebook and the
pen or the ink came together with the effect of the wind and wrote this
sentence. In DNA, we are talking about billions of pieces of information each of
which is crucial for a human being.
So
why don't we ask the same question about the cell? If the information in the
notebook or the computer was written by someone, then who "wrote" DNA
--- that has a far superior and more advanced technology and is designed in the
most perfect manner--- then created it and placed it in the tiny cell, which, by
itself, is another miracle?
Moreover,
to date, it has not lost any of the properties that it has had for thousands of
years. What can be more important for you than to question by whom and for what
reason these cells that function non-stop so that you may read these lines, see,
breathe, think, in brief, exist and continue to exist, have been brought into
being?
One
sees great design, planning and order, from the sun in the sky to the DNA in
one's body. To think that any of these things could be the work of chance is an
unacceptable claim, one that is impossible to take seriously.
You
must have seen the name of a building spelt out in flowers on the ground in
front of it. Looking down at them or from far away, you can immediately make out
the name of the building or company concerned. That is a sign that the flowers
are not there by chance, but that they have been set out by gardeners and
landscape designers. You may not see the gardeners actually doing it, but you
can see that it has happened from the name the flowers spell out.
Alternatively,
let us imagine that you leave the tiles scattered about at random on the table
after a game of Scrabble. When you return, you see that the tiles now spell out
the words: "I have won," and you immediately realize that someone has
arranged them in a meaningful sequence. You would never imagine that they had
come together by chance and formed those words, in just the same way that you
would never imagine the name the flowers spelt out had appeared by chance. In
short, if there is a design directed to a particular end somewhere, then you
know that there must definitely be a designer behind it. You may not have seen
the designer, yet you can be certain of his existence and intention from his
work or the traces he leaves behind him.
“…(Here)
indeed are signs for a people that are wise.” (2:164)
The
main idea we would like to convey with these examples is this: If there is even
the slightest sign of something planned somewhere, there certainly lies the
traces of a possessor of wisdom. For example, if you roll white stones down a
mountain trillions of times, you will never see that they come to spell out the name of a building. If
there is a word or a sentence somewhere, everyone will agree that that word or
sentence must have been written by someone. Words without writers, or designs
without designers are quite impossible.
The
human body, on the other hand, possesses a structure trillions of times more
complex than the name of a building or the words "I have won," and it
is again totally impossible to imagine that this complexity could have come
about of its own accord or by chance. Moreover, the trillions of DNA that
billions of living things have possessed for millions of years have been used in
the most intelligent manner, written in the most perfect manner with no flaws,
and placed in a tiny area invisible to the naked eye. That being the case, there
is a Creator who planned and designed the cell and the DNA inside it so
perfectly. Claiming the opposite means to go beyond the bounds of reason and
attack the very foundations of truth, reason and logic.
At
this point, let us consider the claim of materialism: Is it possible that the
information in DNA could be reduced to matter as materialists suggest? Or, in
other words, can it be accepted that DNA is merely a collection of matter, and
the information it contains came about as a result of the random interactions of
such pieces of matter?
All
the scientific research, experiments and observations carried out in the 20th
century show that the answer to this question is a definite "No." The
director of the German Federal Physics and Technology Institute, Prof. Dr.
Werner Gitt, has this to say on the issue:
A
coding system always entails a nonmaterial intellectual process. A physical
matter cannot produce an information code. All experiences show that every piece
of creative information represents some mental effort and can be traced to a
personal idea-giver who exercised his own free will, and who is endowed with an
intelligent mind.... There is no known law of nature, no known process and no
known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in
matter...1
Those
who claim that millions of pages, billions of pieces of information, were
written by chance are of course left quite speechless in this way. In the same
way that every book or piece of information has a writer or owner, so does the
information in DNA: and that Creator is our Lord God, the possessor of superior
and infinite knowledge and reason.
References:
1-
Werner Gitt. In the Beginning Was Information. CLV, Bielefeld, Germany, p. 107,
141
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