Missives

By now one should plainly see that evolution has zero chances of climbing any of the stairs to life (chart, right).  For the moment, though, forget all that. Let’s assume only the correct left-handed chemicals appeared; came together; properly linked up; ignored the presence or absence of water; and figured out how to reproduce. Now these mindless parts have a real challenge: just encode DNA, one letter at a time, and write the technical blueprints that build chemicals into a living cell.

Surely DNA wants to self-code, right? Hardly. “In DNA and RNA”, Dr. Change Laura Tan writes, “no chemical or physical forces impose a preferred sequence or pattern upon the chain of nucleotides (sentences). In other words, each base (letter) can be followed or preceded by any other base without bias.” [1] DNA doesn’t care what’s encoded, just like paper doesn’t care what’s written. As to how the right information got into DNA, she says evolution’s only two explanations are “replications, mutations, and natural selection” or “fortuitous random arrangements”. ¹ Step 5 excluded the replication idea, so let’s address the ‘just got lucky’ idea.

 The chance of genetic code emerging randomly is practically nil. The probability of a single base (or, letter) in a DNA sequence appearing randomly is 1 in 4 (since DNA has only 4 letters: A, C, T, G).  The probability of 20 nucleotides (i.e., a few words) in a specific sequence appearing by chance is 1-in-4 times 1-in-4, and so on, to arrive at 1 in 10¹².  Since evolutionists don’t blush at such figures, they claim deep time and plenty of undirected energy solves all its problems. This approach relies on the infinite monkey theorem.

Infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, such as William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. However, the odds of this happening are incredibly low. The probability of a single monkey typing the first letter of Hamlet correctly is 1 in 26, as there are 26 letters in the English alphabet. The probability of that same monkey typing the second letter correctly is also 1 in 26, and so on. The prospect of a monkey typing out the entire text of Hamlet correctly is vanishingly small.

Would an expansion to 1,000 monkey typists help the odds (see illustration, above)? Even if each monkey typed for their entire lifespan, the likelihood of them producing Hamlet or any other coherent work is essentially zero. So, more monkeys don’t help.

Randomly writing Hamlet is an easy goal compared to randomly writing genetic code. Dr. Werner Gitt notes that if a human genome – all 3 billion letters—were printed into paperback books, “the pile of books would be 500 times higher than from earth to the moon!” [2] Though evolutionists aren’t claiming the entire human genome had to be in place at Darwin’s warm little pond –just a tiny bit of goo that would mutate into you— this doesn’t make it easier. DNA holds a ton of purposeful content, and the only source we’ve ever found for such logical, expressed information is an intelligent designer.

Evolution’s approach is so ridiculous that it’s comical. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? God says the monkey knows his Creator; perhaps evolutionists should leave their keyboards.