Evolution With A Restricted Number Of Genes

14 December 2007

 Fruit flies and worms have between 15,000 and 20,000 genes and humans only have around 25,000. If more complex means more genetic information then why don't humans have millions of genes? Large strides have been made in the field of genetic research and determining how our genes work and the more we look the more amazing it truly is. The reason we don't have millions of genes could because the genes were designed as a blue print holder, and the order they are in is the key to understanding it.

 There are many genes that we know how they work but some have said there is extra 'junk DNA' in there just taking up space. Tests have been done on mice showing when this 'junk DNA' is removed that the mice start having problems. To say that genes start working better over millions of years is like saying your car will start working better the more you drive it. Adding time does not make things more complex, it just starts wearing things out. It may be true that the fittest survive, but how did the fittest arrive? I wonder how much more our genes could tell us if we started looking at them as incredibly designed information holding systems instead of random accidental lines of chance.

 If we received a signal from space containing repeating numbers the world would insist that intelligent life existed on another planet to send that signal, but if we look into our genes and see more code than man has ever written we automatically disregard it as intelligent because that would mean that there is an intelligent designer.

1. DNA is better written than any computer code.
2. No computer code happens by chance.
3. God exists, get over it.

GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health. "Evolution With A Restricted Number Of Genes." ScienceDaily 18 December 2007. 16 January 2008 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071214094106.htm.