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Information never self-assembles. The genetic information in the DNA of each human cell is roughly equivalent to a library of 4,000 books.a Even if matter and life (perhaps a bacterium) somehow arose, the probability that mutations and natural selection produced this vast amount of information is essentially zero.b It would be similar to producing 4,000 books with the following procedure:c
a. Start with a meaningful phrase.
b. Retype it, but make some errors and insert a few letters.
c. See if the new phrase is meaningful.
d. If it is, replace the original phrase with it.
e. Return to step “b.”
To produce just the enzymes in one organism would require more than 1040,000 trials.d (To begin to understand how large 1040,000 is, realize that the visible universe contains fewer than 1080 atoms.)
In 1972,e evolutionists, out of ignorance,f began referring to large segments of DNA as “junk” DNA, because it supposedly had no purpose and was left over from our evolutionary past. What evolutionists called “junk” DNA is now known to contain millions of switches which regulate gene activity at specific times and in unique ways for each of thousands of different types of cells. Most of the genetic changes that cause disease lie outside the genes and on the 95% of the DNA that evolutionists used to call “junk.”g
Based on all known experience—scientific or otherwise—information comes only from intelligence. Vast amounts of information require a vast intelligence.