Twenty Encyclopedias

The 1958 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica contains 23 volumes (excluding the Atlas). Each full page of print contains two columns of 72 lines. Each line contains an average of 50 letters. Therefore, there are approximately 7200 letters on each page. Discounting the picture pages, there are approximately 900 pages in each volume. There are therefore 6,480,000 letters in each volume. There are 3 billion letters in a DNA strand. Three billion divided by 6,480,000 equals 462 plus a fraction. The DNA strand is therefore approximately equal to 462 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

That is slightly more than 20 sets of 23 volumes each.

Evolution teaches that all of life occurred through a series of purely random mutations beginning from non-life and extending to mankind and to all of life on earth. Therefore, if you believe in evolution, then you believe that pure chance (random mutations) and the death of weaker animals somehow resulted in not only the creation of 462 volumes of coded instructions, but also the non-physical code itself (the language). You believe that these accidental mutations created a code that instructs another mechanism how to produce the particular 100,000 different proteins that are necessary for life, and you believe that these same accidents made all of this information retrievable such that upon the demand for a particular protein the retrieval mechanism singles out the precise1/100,000th of the molecule needed, copies it and then produces the particular molecule. This molecule is perhaps smaller that 1/1000 of the size of one of the pixels on your computer screen.

All religion aside, doesn't it rather stretch reason and credulity to argue that all of this came about through an unobserved process of chance and dying animals? Something put it together.