Origin of DNA. Randall Niles summarizes the Monkey Theorem and the impossibility of producing genetic information through random trials. The DNA molecule represents a massive amount of complex information. In the human, DNA is comprised of 3 billion precise "letter" sequences, which, when read together, form a perfect set of instructions underlying the form and function of every cell in the body. When compared to a written work of Shakespeare, most of us agree that such coded information cannot be created or understood without some kind of intelligence. The Monkey Theorem is a popular device used by naturalists/materialists/atheists to defend the idea that DNA code could arise by chance, given enough time similar to a bunch of monkeys pounding away on typewriters and eventually delivering a Shakespearean sonnet. Can you believe it? The British National Council of Arts tested the Monkey Theorem by actually placing six monkeys and a computer in a cage for a month. At the end of the experiment, the monkeys had produced about 50 pages of letters, but not a single word. Indeed, the shortest words in English are a and I, but those require a space on either side of the letter to be considered a word. Assuming a very simple keyboard with 30 keys (26 letters, a space bar, a period, a comma, and a question mark), the odds of getting a one-letter word is one chance in 27000 (30 x 30 x 30). Thats one letter What about a Shakespearean sonnet? Check this out from Gerald Schroeder ...
Keywords: Origin of DNA, Genetic Code, Information Theory, Antony Flew, Monkey Theorem, Hamlet, Gerald Schroeder, Shakespeare, Randall Niles
