Where did the information in DNA come from?

Question

It's scientifically proven that information, any information cannot result from random processes.

So where did the information contained in our DNA come from?

Answer 1

our parents

Specifically, our parents' DNA


Why can't information result from random processes? Surely we can at least learn that the process is random as opposed to chaotic.

Answer 2

Science by definition focuses primarily upon material
causes which can be experienced and repeated. Theories
of course apply, but only to the extent that they can
be proven true. Almighty is infinite. How can the
finite understand the design intended by the infinite?

Science cannot accommodate "metaphysics" since there is
no tangible access to anything outside the physical
realm. How then can a Creator outside of nature
possibly be referenced by the so called science? It
simply cannot.

http://www.theologywebsite.com/archives/sdf/intelligent_des.shtml

(1) Evolution is built into the DNA/structure of the
universe. "Elements" have always had the possibility to
interact to create "organic matter." There has always
been an abundance of "radiation." Evolution itself did
not evolve from the universe. In fact, if we count
atoms massing together to create molecules as part of
the evolutionary process to create life, then evolution
began with the universe.

(2) Hard determinism... the universe follows one path.
Even if there is a multiverse, I only belong to one
universe.

(3) Living organisms arise from evolutionary processes.

Given these three things, it seems that the universe
exists or was created with the intention of the existence
of life. Intent presupposes an intendor or designer.

No-one has ever said that evolution precludes
intelligent design. There is nothing in evolutionary
theory that prevents there being a creator. Gregor
Mendel was a Lutheran monk. Albert Einstein believed in
the Creator.

X is exists. There was always the possibility of X
existing, so we can say that X existed as soon as the
universe did. Therefore it seems that the universe was
created with the intention of X existing. Intention
presupposes a designer. Therefore there is a designer.

http://community.livejournal.com/philosophy/1404277.html?nc=5

After the discovery of DNA in 1953, evolutionists
realized that natural selection is inadequate to
explain "macro-evolution," which is evolution from one
species to another. Natural selection cannot add new
information to the DNA during the evolution of a new
species. Dogs cannot evolve into cats through natural
selection, because there is a lot of information in cat
DNA that is missing in dog DNA. Natural selection
cannot make this data appear the DNA. However,
evolutionists also recognized that "micro-evolution,"
which is variation within a species, can occur by
natural selection or selective breeding because no new
information needs to be added to the DNA.

http://www.renewamerica.us/analyses/050818hutchison.htm

In other words, there is nothing material/ existential,
like two atoms slamming together or the existence of
any kind of energy, that reasonably could have started
the Universe. The cause of the Universe, in order for
the Universe to be dependant upon it, must exist
outside of the Universe and must itself not be
material. The intelligent mind is the only "thing" we
know of that has the capability to be a cause and is
itself not material. Only the existence of an
intelligent mind, a "thing" that is not material,
outside of the boundaries of our universe, could form
an idea and be the cause that would have the ability to
start the chain of cause and effect events that formed
our Universe. This cause itself would not need to be
caused, and could exist as an uncaused cause, simply
because it does not exist within the bounds of matter/
space and time as our universe does.

http://www.webspawner.com/users/godproof/

Answer 3

Your assertions are not particularly well informed, but that aside the information in DNA arises from natural selection.

Natural selection is not a random process. It very rapidly converges on best survival solutions, which are propagated by DNA through a population.

Answer 4

"It's scientifically proven that information, any information cannot result from random processes."

Evolution is NOT a "random process".

Evolution has a random element (variation driven by mutation), but it also has a NON-RANDOM element: natural selection ... the fact that individuals better suited for the environment tend *on average* to survive longer and reproduce more offspring. That is NOT randomness.

Answer 5

Trial & error.

In 1948 a student in Chicago showed you could create basic amino acid molecules by subjecting a mix of early gases to electrical discharges. (Simulated lightning on a young earth).

If any one of these molecules happened to be arranged in a form that promoted replication, chances of it happening were higher than of it not happening.

Anything approaching RNA structure that was "imperfect" would simply have faded away.

Your question is a bit like asking "How is it possible that the winner of the 100M dash in the Olympics could be in such ideal physical form?"...

Answer 6

DNA is a long polymer of simple units called nucleotides, which are held together by a backbone made of sugars(ribose or deoxy ribose) and phosphate groups. This backbone carries four types of molecules called bases, and it is the sequence of these four bases that encodes information.
The bases are purine(adenine and guanine) and pyramidines(cytosine and thymine).

Answer 7

RNA: An RNA Replicator arose first. It took over the primordial soup. (RNA can be its own gene AND its own catalyst.) DNA is RNA's data storage method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world_hypothesis