From the John 10:10 project at Vimeo:
Enter a living human cell to discover a world of unimaginable precision, complexity and design. Measuring less than 2/1000th of an inch in diameter, the cell is packed with molecular machinery that makes life possible. These microscopic wonders include our DNA – the genetic code. Through extraordinary computer animation you’ll discover how the more than 18 trillion feet of DNA in your body is organized, stored and processed.
Imagine, all that information in there doesn’t weigh anything. But it matters.
Hat tip: Philip Cunningham
As Berlinski puts it,
DNA literally screams that ‘we are Intelligently Designed’ from every angle that we look at it.
For instance, the information storage capacity of DNA vastly exceeds the best efforts of man to store information in computers. As of 2011, it was found that it is ‘theoretically’ possible to store all the information in the world on just 4 grams of DNA:
Moreover, the power efficiency of DNA is found to be almost a billion times better than that of flash memory,
Which is only about an order of magnitude worse than the limit of Landauer’s bound.
Moreover, the integrated coding between the DNA, RNA and Proteins of the cell is, apparently, ingeniously designed and/or programmed along the very stringent guidelines laid out in Landauer’s principle, (by Charles Bennett from IBM of Quantum Teleportation fame), for ‘reversible computation’ in order to achieve such amazing energy/biochemical efficiency as it does.
The amazing energy efficiency possible with ‘reversible computation’ has been known about since Charles Bennett first laid out the principles for such reversible computation in 1973, but as far as I know, due to the extreme level of complexity involved in actually designing such ingenious ‘reversible computation’ in our own computers, has yet to be accomplished in any meaningful way in our own computers:
As well, the ‘grammar’ of the human genetic code is now found to be ‘more complex than that of even the most intricately constructed spoken languages in the world.’
In fact, the coding in DNA vastly exceeds what even our most talented computer programmers are capable of writing.
There are now found to be multiple overlapping codes encoded within a single stretch of DNA.
In fact, there is one human gene that codes for 576 different proteins, and there is one fruit fly gene that codes for 38,016 different proteins!
As Dr John Sanford commented, “our best computer programmers can’t even conceive of overlapping codes. The genome dwarfs all of the computer information technology that man has developed.”
Besides DNA being a ‘super-super set of programs’, DNA is also ingeniously designed to prevent damage from UV light:
As well, the repair mechanism of DNA is so efficient that it has been compared to, “spotting potholes on every street all over the country and getting them fixed before the next rush hour.”
Of note: DNA repair machines ‘Fixing every pothole in America before the next rush hour’ is analogous to the traveling salesman problem. The traveling salesman problem is a NP-hard (read: very hard) problem in computer science; The problem involves finding the shortest possible route between cities, visiting each city only once. ‘Traveling salesman problems’ are notorious for keeping supercomputers busy for days.
Yet it is exactly this type of ‘traveling salesman problem’ that quantum computers excel at:
Thus, since it is obvious that there is not some type of classical CPU (central processing unit) in the DNA, or cell, busily crunching numbers to this monster logistic problem, in a purely ‘classical’ fashion, then it is obvious that this monster ‘traveling salesman problem’, for DNA repair, must somehow be computed with ‘non-local’ quantum computation;
And indeed, it is now found that practically the whole DNA molecule can be viewed as quantum information with classical information embedded within it
Such massive quantum entanglement in DNA, with trillions upon trillions of atoms being simultaneously entangled, simply trounces anything man has yet to accomplish in regards to his efforts to build quantum computers on a practical scale.
As unfathomably complex as DNA is turning to be, simply looking at a cross section of DNA is enough for most ordinary people to instantly see that DNA must obviously be the product of Intelligent Design,
In fact, DNA is ingeniously designed along the architecture of the very beautiful Golden Ratio
Of related interest, natural log e is found to be necessary for calculating ‘growth’ of the ‘golden spiral’ of the Fibonacci number;
I do not know how deep the connection actually is, but Euler’s Identity, (which contains natural log e and which was once voted ‘The Most Beautiful Equation of Math’),,,,
,,,, I do not know how deep the connection is, but Euler’s Identity ‘coincidentally’ graphs out as a right handed spiral, just like DNA does.
i.e. Euler’s Identity, when plotted in 3D, results in the fundamental geometry of DNA: a right handed helix!??
In the following article, Adam Rutherford takes exception to the many incorrect examples of left handed DNA spirals that he has found on the Internet and even found at many reputable institutions:
In regards to the apparent intelligent design of DNA and in DNA, I have, obviously, only barely scratched the surface. I sure much more could be said and someone could easily write a (very thick) book on the subject.
Verse:
I’m watching a Great Courses course on DNA.
Instructor said one cell of DNA is 6 ft long as in this video. All the DNA in one body would stretch from the sun to Pluto and back again. A different analogy from video. All the DNA on earth would stretch across the visible universe universe several times.
On the other hand, we have the “materialist” credo:
DNA does indeed weigh something. It is made of mass.
Rhampton7
Denyse was talking of the immaterial information (“soul”).