From 1835, when Charles Darwin was travelling around the world on HMS Beagle, and then from 1842 when he put pen to paper to outline his theory, up until 1859 when he finally published his book, On the Origin of Species the two most important scientific developments that he really needed to know about, wouldn’t happen for over another 90 years. Materialist scientists, atheist, saw those developments as decisively ending all of this nonsense about God, but were they getting ahead of themselves?

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Stephen Meyer, in his book, The Return of the God Hypotheses wrote:

By the late 1960s, molecular biologists knew where the information for building proteins was stored and even how that information was used to build them. But they did not know where that information came from. I call this mystery "the DNA enigma," a mystery that is closely related to the question of how the first life on earth originated.

And later in his book he wrote:

I came across a book written by Henry Quastler, one of the early scientists who first began to apply informational concepts to molecular biology. In it, Quastler made an almost offhand and seemingly obvious observation. As he put it, "The creation of new information is habitually associated with conscious activity."

From this part, I’m going to explore the DNA enigma. Where did the information, the instructions, about how to build proteins, come from and did science find itself walking down a path that was leading it, especially with enormous reluctance on the part of the atheist scientists, to God?

I’m going to tell you the amazing story of how Watson and Crick, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1962 for, in the words of the award: their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material. And how they shafted their colleague, Rosalind Russell, to do it.

After General Montgomery won his historic victory at the Battle of El Alamein in 1942 Winston Churchill made one of his memorable speeches:

'This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.'

The remarkable story of information had well and truly begun – but terrifyingly the quest for where it came from, seemed to leading to the door of the most high God who many scientists and philosophers said was a figment of people’s imaginations. How could a figment of the imagination of a deluded Christian be the source of information for living things?

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Richard Dawkins, in his 1986 book, The Blind Watchmaker wrote:

What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life'. It is information, words, instructions. If you want a metaphor, don't think of fires and sparks and breath. Think, instead, of a billion discrete, digital characters carved in tablets of crystal. If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

Here Richard dismisses the idea that the creation of life could be the work of God. But is the dismissal of that idea scientific or based on the unscientific worldview of Richard Dawkins? That is what we need to explore.

But there is one take away from this – both atheists and Judaeo Christians accept that information is the key to life – and the big question is where did the information come from.

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