Transcendent DNA
In my opinion, to say that DNA contains “super-human” information is false. You have to say it contains “transcendent information”. DNA is so incredibly complex that it could only have been designed by a Being with infinite intelligence.
One protein, Titin, acts like a rubber band in helping muscle molecules to spring back into resting position after contracting . It has 34,350 amino acids in the right order. To get it right by accident, is like dialing a 34,350 digit phone number by accident. Yet this is ridiculously underestimating the complexity of getting it randomly. And it’s just one of the 100,000 building block codes generated by the too-small to see human DNA strand.
The Golden Tortoise Beetle
The color of the Golden Tortoise Beetle is caused by diffraction gratings that are built by its DNA. The color in the beetle is not actually there in its exoskeleton. The colors are split out of white light by millions of extreme-tech DNA-built nano-structures. Then they are combined to make the shimmery golden color. Our God can make beauty like this because He knows intimately the details necessary to accomplish it.
In the same way God makes beauty in nature, He gives to us beauty for ashes, the ashes of failures, sorrows, mistakes, unjust hurts and injustices. He knows exactly what needs to happen to bring this to pass, just as He knew how to make the golden color of our little beetle.
When you see all the beauty in human beings and in birds, flowers, plants–and even insects– realize that your Father designed them all because of His love for you.
Let the beauty in His Creation help you to trust God to bring unexpected beauty in situations that you can’t see beauty in yet.
“…I ask that He would grant you… being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” - Ephesians 3:16-19
Here’s a great article on this. It’s a bit on the technical side: Titin the largest proteins known and titin-telethonin complex – the strongest protein bond found so far in nature.
Don Miller