You and I are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Here’s scientific proof.
You’ve heard of a double helix…right? It’s the best image scientists have come up with, so far, to represent Deoxyribonucleic Acid…also known as DNA. And DNA is scientific proof you and I are fearfully and wonderfully made. Not merely carbon copies of carbon lifeforms. Even the term “carbon lifeforms” contradicts itself. But anyway…let me share some tidbits of information about information that’s inside you right now.
In almost all of the 30,000,000,000,000 (that’s trillion, by the way) cells in your body there are duplicate copies of your DNA. Each human cell contains 46 segments. You got 23 segments from your mom and 23 from your dad. No one else on Earth has the same DNA as you. Cool, huh? And the information in the DNA is like a blueprint for how to build you. Only you! How you’ll look, much of how you’ll act, and how every cell in your body will function during your life.
And being fearfully and wonderfully made gets even more interesting.
If you took out all the DNA from one of your cells and uncoiled it…then you connected, and stretched out, it would be about 6 feet long. But It would be so thin you couldn’t see it. Not even with the most powerful microscope in existence today. The coded information found in just one cells could fill a library with somewhere around 4,000 books. And if you took all the DNA in your body and stretched it out end-to-end, you could go to the moon and back more than 165,000 times. Impressive, wouldn’t you say? Well, how about this…?
The information found in your DNA could fill the Grand Canyon almost 30 times, if you put it in books. And yet…you could take one set of DNA from one cell of every person who ever lived, put them all in a spoon, and they’d weigh less than an aspirin. When you ponder the power of the scientific discoveries we’ve made so far, you should begin to get a sense of how fearfully and wonderfully made you truly are.
Isn’t it more comforting to know you’re made instead of just an accident?
No matter what you believe about how life got here, you’re choosing to believe it. No one (at least virtually no one) is being forced to believe how we all got here. My question is this. Why would you want to believe you’re just the random result of trillions of mutations? Especially when there’s so much information inside you to the contrary. You’re an information-based life form. And the fact that so much information is coded into your DNA proves there must be a super coder. The good news is…that coder loves you. He made you a human being made in His image and likeness. And He allows you to choose to love Him back…or not. Choose wisely.
You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
There is information locked inside your cells.
When you choose to discover why you’re here,
You’ll find out what the information tells.
And you’ll see you’re not just an accident
Fumbling through the hours, and days, and weeks, and years.
All the evidence is pointing out the way.
Trust your Maker. He’ll erase your doubts and fears.
(facts and figures from “In the Beginning” by Dr. Walt Brown)
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