What are the information embedded in DNA, which Bill Gates quoted "more complex than any computer program"?

Question

does this really prove that it's a work of a higher being(God) & Can never be created through evolution? i want real facts & ofcourse, your point of view for the second Q.

Answer 1

The human genome is three billion base pairs. There are four possible bases, so each base pair is two bits. Six billion bits is less than one gigabyte, or a little more than a CD-ROM full. MS Office takes up more disk space and doesn't do as much.

Digital computers are easy. Analog systems are far more complex. You don't know exactly what will happen at any step. Just a pretty good idea. A short stretch of DNA may have many functions since the protein it encodes may do multiple things. Take the proteins of the complement system. Where antibodies attach to cells, they interact with the antibody and punch holes in the cell. Some fragments that come off attract immune cells. The immune cells have molecules that attach to the bound complement to help them ingest the attacked cells.

As for proof of God, it's not there. Consider this: Microsoft has been around for 31 years. What do you think they could develop in 500 million years? Complement is complex, but its multiple functions all make sense from an evolutionary stand point. Evolution favored creatures whose immune cells better responded to a defense protein system.

Answer 2

Well, real facts. It's been millions and millions of years since the first life-forms appeared on Earth. Their genetic coding was, of course, going to be extremely primitive, only having enough information for the bare essentials of living. They first began reproduction simply by replicating the DNA they had, and splitting up into two identical cells.

At this point we've got to ask ourselves: if they're primitive life-forms, will they replicate their DNA perfectly every single time? They might add in base pairs that never existed before, maybe replace some with something completely different, or just take a base pair out altogether. Most of the time, this'll just make a code for a life-form that can't survive, because its coding is wrong. But this is happening over millions of years; eventually, the random changes will make a new life-form that can survive.

And then those random changers will make other random changers, cells would band together to form multicellular beings, some cells would eat others and recruit them for a new function inside the cell (that's how plant cells and animal cells developed, anyway).

So, my answer is no, simply becase it is complex doesn't mean that God exists. When disputing the question of evolution vs. intelligent design, one should not begin by questioning the complexities of today's life. They should question things from the bottom up; why our cells use DNA, how proteins are derived from genetic material in the way that they are, and why that first organism appeared in the first place.

Answer 3

aw man, i gotta pull out my science book. lol

but i can tell you that there is a true and living God who is the Creator of all things.