What type of results come out of an interdisciplinary team made up of electrical and computer engineers, molecular geneticists, and someone from Microsoft research? How about the cracking of the "second genetic code"! If you thought that the human genome project was the end of the line for code-related DNA discoveries - think again. The mapping out of the protein encoding regions of human DNA was a magnificent feat which required the intelligence of human minds and a lot of computing power. But that was only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. While this was cause for celebration, it only raised additional questions and more investigations of the inner workings of the genetic code. 

It never made much sense to us outside observers how the human genome could function with "only" 20,000 or so protein-encoding genes. After all, there are at least 100,000 proteins required for the human body to operate properly. Clearly there was not a one-to-one correlation between genes and proteins. How did the cell produce so many proteins from such a small set of instructions? The answer has been unravelling ever since the human genome project completed. There seemed to be a secondary, or epigenetic code operating within the cell that could splice various genes to produce a wide variety of parts needed by the cell. But where did this code reside? The first code was somewhat obvious with the repeating chemical letters of A,C,T, and G. But this secondary code was not nearly as obvious and would take another fifteen years to crack after the first one. 

The interdisciplinary team mentioned above worked together to solve the mystery of the secondary code - the Splicing Code. How did they do this, you ask? They used computer-assisted biological analysis to find hidden code-words, reverse engineering,

 mathematical equations, and the minds of intelligent humans. The journal Nature article made the statement how the four-base code initially discovered by Watson-Crick "conceals a universe of complexity beneath the surface" and that the Splicing-Code-within-the-code is much more complex. But there seems to be even more to uncover than this secondary Splicing Code! It is truly amazing to think that that there are codes, controlling codes at work within every cell of our bodies. Further research may even reveal that there are codes, controlling codes, that controller yet more codes. 

Think about how one would have to leave their logic and ration at the door in order to believe that mere chemicals came up with code-controlling-codes all by themselves. After all, no code, and no language of any kind has ever come into existence all on its own. These are always the result of a mind. There are no exceptions. Yet, those who are trapped into accepting only naturalistic explanations of human origins must believe in miracle after miracle with each new discovery in molecular biology. 

Consider what mutations and natural selection would be able to do in terms of developing a code-within-a-code!  This would be like expecting a room full of paper and ink to write a manual on how to build an airplane all by itself. But first, the ink and paper must create a language, and agree upon the syntax and grammatical construct of that language. And at the same time it creates the language and writes the manual, it must also write a secondary manual which describes how to effeciently use the primary manual! This secondary manual must be able to dynamically combine different areas of the primary manual in order to produce the vast amount of parts required to build the airplane. Can you see the impossibility here? It does not matter if you give the ink and paper 13.5 billion years, a 100 billion years, or even 100 trillion years - it will never happen. Ink and paper a merely a medium used to carry information. The ink and paper themselves know nothing of information. They do not "know" anything. They cannot plan for the future. They cannot develop codes, languages, or codes-within-codes. 

But it is actually much worse than that. The manual must also provide instructions for making each part of the airplane - from scratch! It must describe how to mine the earth for metal, and how to fashion each part into it's unique 3-dimensional shape. It must provide instructions for making everything from rubber to computer instrumentation - all from scratch! On top of all of this - the manual must have instructions for self diagnosis for when things go wrong and self correction to set things back to working order. And the final product - the airplane - must be able to reproduce itself over and over again. The ink and paper must create a manual that fits this description - all on it's own without any outside assistance whatsoever. In addition to all of this, there must be workers present, from the beginning, who know the language of the manual, can understand it, know how to read it, know when to read it, know where to begin reading, know when to stop reading, and know how to read the secondary manual in order to combine different sections to create a multitude of pieces and parts at the right time, at the right place, and in the right order. The instructions on how to make the workers themselves must also be - you guessed it - in the manual, all developed by the ink and paper. The finished airplane manual would not even hold a fraction of the complexity that exists in our cellular manuals! And evolutionists say they do not operate on faith?

It will never happen. And it never happened that way with our cells either! Languages and codes are the product of intelligence. It is the only rational explanation to where our code and code-within-a-code comes from. Don't check your logic at the door of naturalistic and evolutionary explanations.  You might not be able to ever get it back.

Be a critical thinker. Codes and codes-within-codes cannot be the products of chance and time any more than the works of Shakespeare are the products of ink paper, chance, and time.

Sources

University of Toronto (2010, May 6). Researchers crack 'splicing code,' solve a mystery underlying biological complexity

naturenews, The code within a code, Computational biologists grapple with RNA's complexity, Nature 465, 16-17 (2010) | doi:10.1038/465016a

Deciphering the splicing code, Nature 465, 53-59 (6 May 2010) | doi:10.1038/nature09000

Breakthrough: Second Genetic Code Revealed, Creation evolution News 05/06/2010, http://creationsafaris.com/crev201005.htm#20100506a