information storage platform”. Stephen Jones, who has collaborated with other researchers on a new method of storing information on DNA, said: “This idea takes advantage of what biology has been doing … : for
To test their new method, called HEDGES, the researchers put
‘The Wizard of Oz’, translated into Esperanto, onto DNA and
subjected it to high temperatures and extreme humidity. Despite this
leading to some of the DNA being damaged, the information could still be
decoded successfully.
The reason that DNA is being used to store information is that it “is
about 5 million times more efficient than current storage methods … .
And DNA doesn’t require permanent cooling and hard disks that are prone
to mechanical failures”.
This is a clear demonstration that the information DNA is able to
store is of completely the same nature as messages sent by intelligent
human senders.
Namely, information which can be read, understood, and
put into ‘action’.
This is what happens in living things, which transmit their DNA
information from generation to generation. Like human messages, this
inherited information is also subject to damage/decay (mutations). This
points to a super-intelligent source that encoded the information in the
first place in the ancestors of each kind of living thing, and designed
the machinery needed for its preprogrammed transmission.
The Bible
tells us in Genesis who life’s
coding creator is.
That DNA can also store information more elegantly, effectively and
efficiently than anything man-made so far is further demonstration of
God’s “eternal power and divine nature” (Romans 1:20)." CMI
