DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) has been called the basic building blocks of life. Perhaps of all the arguments against the theory of evolution the existence of DNA is the most formidable. You see in order to have life we need the basic building blocks of a cell – protein molecules. And here is where the rub comes in for our evolutionist friends. For we know that DNA relies on proteins for its production but proteins rely on DNA for their production. So, the question arises which came first, proteins or DNA? Clearly one must already be in existence for the other to be made. This impossible dilemma can’t be solved through man-made logic but only by an all-powerful God who created both DNA and proteins together. I ask you to ponder your choices.
May the following quotes help you to, not only understand the complexity of DNA, but also why an all-powerful God must be its Creator.1
“Just ten years ago, probably the most prominent atheist of the twentieth century, Antony Flew, concluded that a God must have designed the universe. It was shocking news and made international headlines. Flew came to believe that the extraordinarily complex genetic code in DNA simply could not be accounted for naturalistically. It didn’t make logical sense to him that it had happened merely by chance, via random mutations. It is a remarkable thing that Flew had the humility and intellectual honesty to do a public about-face on all he had stood for and taught for five decades.” – Eric Metaxas
“I now believe there is a God…I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.” – Antony Flew
“Scientists have spent at least a century trying to create biological life from chemicals, yet they haven’t made even one DNA molecule. Since a cell’s energy, information storage, and metabolic machinery all depend on one another, the first cell could not have arisen through natural processes unless all three intricate systems sprang up at once. And besides that, body cells break down when they’re not part of a living being. The universal failure of people to make life highlights God as the source of all life (Psalm 36:9).” – Brian Thomas
“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” – Bill Gates
“Human DNA contains more organized information than the Encyclopedia Britannica. If the full text of the encyclopedia were to arrive in computer code from outer space, most people would regard this as proof of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. But when seen in nature, it is explained [by Darwinists] as the workings of random forces.” – George Sim Johnson
“Richard Dawkins admits that the amount of information in a one-celled life (like an amoeba) has as much information in its DNA as 1,000 Encyclopaedia Britannicas! Now, believing that 1,000 encyclopedias came into existence without any intelligent intervention is like believing that an entire bookstore resulted from an explosion in a printing shop. I don’t have enough faith to believe that!” – Frank Turek
“It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.” – Antony Flew
1 All of these quotes are from the following websites:
Charlie H. Campbell, Apologetics Quotes (Carlsbad, California: The Always Be Ready Apologetics Ministry, 2020)
Here’s the thing, most of the men being quoted are saying nothing more than what Romans 1 tells us “what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them,” or as it summarizes this thought a few verses later by saying, “They know God.” but “they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools.” All we can say is that they have seen God’s “invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.” That is why someone said, “There are no atheists, but liars who deny the existence of God.”
However, although they have been impressed with the evidence they’ve discovered, they still suppress that evidence in unrighteousness. So, if we are quoting Flew or Gates with the goal that their quotes prove God exists, we won’t get any further than Flew himself got in bowing the knee to Jesus as Lord. Flew never claimed to be Christian; he was a self-identified deist who did not believe in an afterlife, the authority of Scripture or the Trinity.
Evidence of God’s existence is all around us. Every rock of the ground, when turned over, says, “Made in heaven.” So, the unbeliever is “without excuse.” God calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Jesus is is the only evidence we need: “Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”