Sunday, December 6, 2009

Science Points To God: Organized Packaging

Computer simulations show that if you want to pack a string into the least space, coil it into a helix. DNA is coiled into an alpha-helix molecule in order to fit into our chromosomes...

The molecule of DNA (2-nanometer diameter overall) in a single human chromosome ranges in size from 50 x 106 nucleotide pairs in the smallest chromosome (stretched full-length this molecule would extend 1.7 cm) up to 250 x 106nucleotide pairs in the largest (which would extend 8.5 cm).

Stretched end-to-end, the DNA in a single human diploid cell would extend over 2 meters. In the intact chromosome, however, this molecule is packed into a much more compact structure. [Link]. The packing reaches its extreme during mitosis when a typical chromosome is condensed into a structure about 5 µm long (a 10,000-fold reduction in length).

Random chance could not coil a string into peanut shell much less a DNA molecule into a human cell...

Science does not conflict with Christianity and a Creator God...Science confirms That a Divine being must have created the organization of the living species...to argue otherwise is intellectually disingenuous...despite scientific opinion, Christians are independent thinkers and approach life with an open mind, something in my humble opinion scientist should do as well...