Does Science Disprove God? Part III The Code. Guest post by author John Galt Robinson

Third guest blog post by author and doctor John Galt Robinson: 

Does Science Disprove God? Part III

The Code

By John Galt Robinson

Imagine you are strolling barefoot down a sandy beach on a lush tropical island. A warm breeze blows through your hair while waves roll across the turquoise water, musically washing ashore. You come across five letters scrawled in the sand that spell ALOHA. How did those letters come to be in the sand? Would a reasonable person conclude that the letters were a random result of the sand being moved about by the wind and the waves? Did a crab scrawl these letters? A bird? Of course not. A reasonable person would look at these five letters, see they are clearly letters from a written language that are precisely arranged in an order and sequence that communicates a message. In other words, a reasonable person would conclude that someone intentionally scrawled these five letters into the sand in order to communicate a message. To say it differently, we would sea this word, or this code and reason back to its source being an intelligent mind.

Now, if we can reach that conclusion from just five arranged letters, what if we were to stumble upon and entire sentence written in the sand, say; EAT AT JOE’S. Would the presence of additional letters arranged into specific words that form a sentence be more or less likely to have come from an intelligent mind? Of course, we would reason that these nine letters came from an intelligent mind. What if we were to discover a paperback book laying on a beach towel? Would we flip through the pages, each containing thousands of letters arranged into hundreds of words all arranged to communicate a cleverly written story and conclude this was the result of a random event where some type of ink spilled across hundreds of sheets of paper (where did the paper come from?) and a story resulted? I write thriller novels and not one contains less than 100,000 words. Are my novels the products of blind natural processes? I think you can see where I’m going with this. The higher number of letters involved, the less likely we are to conclude that such a finding would be the product of natural events. 

So how is it that one can look at a simple life form and conclude it just came to be as a result of a freak natural events? Let’s look at the simplest life form, a single celled organism called an amoeba. Even the simplest life form such as an amoeba has to have its own unique genetic code in order to exist and function. This genetic code is made up of strands of DNA consisting of precise arrangement of nitrogenous bases, letters if you will, that form each cell’s genetic code. Remember, we concluded that a simple five letter word had an intelligent source, more so for a sentence and exponentially more so for a book made up of several hundred thousand letters. Can you guess the amount of genetic code in an amoeba? Well, it’s enough code to fill volumes of books. In fact, it would fill enough books to stock a small library! And that’s just in an amoeba! By comparison, the human genome contains 3.2 Billion letters of code. It is also crucial to point out that these billions of letters of code MUST be precisely arranged in order  for the organism to exist and function.  If just one of these letters of code is out of sequence, the organism may have severe mutations or even be incompatible with life.

This begs the question; if we can look at five letters scrawled into the sand and reasonably conclude they came from and intelligent mind, how can we look at a complex organism with 3.2 Billion letters of precisely arranged code and NOT conclude it is the product of an intelligent mind. 

Author’s note: nearly all of this information was obtained from the book I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek. If you would like to much more detailed and comprehensive study of this topic and much more, I highly recommend this book or visit Frank Turek’s website www.crossexamined.org

John Galt Robinson is a board certified emergency medicine physician practicing in South Carolina. He is also a published fiction author writing the Joe O’Shanick/Christy Tabrizi series as well as his soon to be published Nate Kelsey series in the suspense/thriller genre. His website is www.johngaltrobinson.com.