A section of DNA. The bases lie horizontally between the two spiraling strands.
Human writing systems began around 3000 BC as complex and numerous collections of symbols, such as the tens of thousands of signs in Hieroglyphic, Cuneiform, Chinese or Korean.
It seems that the People of God were in forefront of the brilliant invention of skipping pictorial and symbolic writing and using only symbols for the consonants and half-consonants. Late Bronze Age Proto-Sinaitic script is found carved in the rocks of the Land of Exodus, Sinai, and derives from Egyptian writing. There is a parallel development in Phoenicia where a simplified cuneiform script is used in the same period.
However, the Hebrew alphabet won the world - as the name says, aleph bet ... the two first letters in the proto-Sinaitic that later led to the development of Greek and Latin and other alphabets including the modern symbols you are reading right now.
The number of symbols was further reduced by 19th century Western students of Mathematics and Logic.
Because of the complexity of working with such an extremely constrained system of symbols Boolean algebra remained an oddity of interest to professionals only for a century.
Of course, today much of the world of Science and Technology is running boolean and few consumer products in the market today are analog - digital rules with only two digits!
Because the digit is not just a symbol but a measurable state Boolean logic has turned out to be extremely useful and can be used to write any writing system, audio code, high-resolution images and to run hospital heart monitor and most people make boolean phone calls.... so to say.
God of Israel and DNA
God decided to code life using four things.
Not to write information using a system of ten thousand or so symbols, letters and symbols and pictures like hieroglyphics.
He is not using an alphabet of 28 or so consonants (and vowels) as in human languages.
Nor did God decide to use the simplest possible coding system of nothing and one.
But four.
I have often wondered how we humans might develop an effective coding using four symbols like DNA instead of two. It is, of course, quite easy to create a useless 4-based math since it is power of 2. The four of DNA are each different and not multiples of two. (Well - since this is not my field I may be missing something...)
Power of DNA
But the power of boolean digits is in the fact that the 0 and 1 also represents the states ON and OFF or the fundamental logical TRUE and FALSE. Circuits of boolean logic can be built and extremely complex circuits have been built in what we call the CPU of the computer.
The power of DNA is immense as it controls so much of the life upon Earth. The power rests in the ability of living organisms to read the Book of Life and put its contents into good use.
Even more amazing is the ability of living organisms to copy DNA information from cell to cell allowing controlled growth.
Even more amazing is the ability of organisms to pass DNA of male and female (boolean 1 and 0 if you want) reproductive cells and combine the information so that the code not only survives intact from generation to generation in living species but allows great but controlled variation we today call genetic heritage.
Most amazing is the ability of DNA to control changes in the cycle of life and death so that the organisms can adapt to changing environment and in the fight for survival.
Worship of Natural Selection
The Book of Life is so amazing that people have been spiritually blinded by the genius of Nature.
Ever since humanity began to have some idea about the processes of life that somehow push living creatures forward in what we call the evolution of life, the worship has been growing.
Today, New Atheism proclaims victory of the divine but rough Natural Selection that according to their faith is able to produce even such highly complex organs as the eye, over all gods worshipped by man including God of Israel, the only real God there is.
Not only atheists, though, but also many believers project the true creative power of mater and energy and evolution and see no place for God of Israel in the grandeur of Nature.
Worship of Natural Selection as the almighty creator of all life is prevalent. I call it the Moloch of Evolutionism.
At the same time, I am an ardent student of evolutionary theory and really would like to know more about it. I called it the Lathe of God. It is an important and effective tool in the handwork of the almighty creator of everything.
This blog
The purpose of this blog is to try to learn more about the study of evolution that concentrates on genetics.
Join me in studying and I am grateful if you teach me where I go wrong!
And let us all pray that the Holy Ghost would guide us to all truth in this matter of such crucial importance.
Shall we worship Evolution, the Moloch of Modern Days
or can we still believe in God of Israel as the ONE who has coded the DNA?
There is no easy answer... this question takes hard work
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