City Newspaper Archives - 12/2006
LETTERS: Who created DNA?
Published on Dec 06, 2006
I read the debate among your readers on atheism (The Mail, November 8) and want to add my two cents worth.
Take the newspaper you're holding in your hands right now. If I told someone that nobody wrote it --- that there was a big explosion, and when the dust settled there was a newspaper with every word in the right spot, with all the pages in order --- they wouldn't believe me. If I told them that nobody built their house, nobody nailed the boards together, nobody put the right amount of mortar between the bricks, nobody put the roof on, they wouldn't believe me either.
Now look at one cell in the human body. If its entire genetic code was printed out in City Newspaper; many thousands of copies would be required to contain it all. Take away a small portion of that DNA or add an extra copy in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you have someone with cancer, some kind of birth defect, or any of the genetic disorders known to medical science.
The same people who would think I'm crazy for saying nobody wrote anything in this newspaper would agree with me if I said nobody wrote the far more complex DNA found in humans or any other form of life.
Jim Nantz, Phoenix, Arizona
