Codes of DNA molecule are the blueprint of all the living organisms including human beings. Structural plan and functions of all the organisms and humans are so well organized and coordinated that this question becomes significant to be answered properly.
Genes have developed, have not been planned. It was and is a trial and error procedure.
Genes have developed, have not been planned. It was and is a trial and error procedure.
In complement to Hanno's answer, you can have a look at the anthropic principle, which basically says that observations must be compatible with the existence of a conscious life that observes it. See Wikipedia link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
totally agree with Prof. Hanno....They are developed without planned manner.
Many famous and celebrated scientists including Albert Einstein believed in God. Considering the belief in God, many think His role in planning of DNA molecule.
"Considering the belief in God, many think His role in planning of DNA molecule." (Arbind Kumar)
Many? Perhaps... but probably none of the famous scientists that you mentioned and not even the Pope, who said "When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment." (Plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican, Oct. 27, 2014)
There is no need of any kind of intelligent design to understand the evolution of the universe and life.
Dear Arbind Kumar,
but Einstein invented rules and believed in natural science. He accepted evolution.
Dear Emmeric Dupont,
Thank you for your detailed learned analysis and scholarly comments. You gave a good reference that God created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws. I was just wondering whether these internal laws may be written in the coded language of DNA.
Dear Hanno Krieger,
Thank you for your scholarly and interesting comments on the question. You are absolutely right that Einstein believed in natural science and evolution. But he also firmly believed in the existence of God. I was pondering over the possible role of God in the hidden coded language of DNA, if at all God exists.
Dear Arbind Kumar,
we and especially me have learned in natural science to find out rules, no ominous and hidden laws, forces, powers or what ever. So I prefer to follow the evolution model, which is really understood and clear. It´s just a matter of nearly infinite numbers of attempts to function.
Dear Hanno Krieger,
I agree with you and I too believe in the evolution of life. But it is also true that the genetic code made up of DNA, acted as an intracellular computer during the evolution of life and still plays the same role for the structure and physiology of the cell and governs the embryonic development leading to the formation of the body plan of all the organisms including human beings. DNA has hidden information that acts like blueprint of our body plan.
@ Arbind and Brenda
Maybe, maybe not... from a scientific point of view this is just an assumption. So far there is no evidence that this assumption is correct, and there is no need of God to explain the evolution of universe and life. Of course the question of the creation is still open...
generally people believe what they want to believe, which is quite often that which their parents believed. There may be a God, or even lots of Gods, no one can prove otherwise, but no one can prove the existence of a God either. I think that in general science has been able to explain the universe and the evolution of life by natural processes without the need for the intervention of a God or Gods. It is still a bit of a mys tery as to how the universe came into being, but if God made it then we are still left with an unanswrable question, that is, who made God? There seem to be questions that we humans do not have the capacity to be able to answer, so I will content myself with asking questions to which I think I can possibly find the answers.
Dear Keith Robert Oliver,
There are some facts we are not able/allowed to understand/explain.
Dear Brenda Jacono,
You are absolutely right that this idea does not go against evolution.
I think the genetic code of DNA is the language of God written for the expression and manifestation of all living organisms including human beings.
"There seem to be questions that we humans do not have the capacity to be able to answer, so I will content myself with asking questions to which I think I can possibly find the answers" (Keith Robert Oliver )
You are absolutely right Keith Robert Oliver.
It seems that trying to understand the mysteries and infiniteness of the universe is like chimpanzee trying to understand Quantum Theory
Sri Ramakrishna, the prophet of modern India, used to say that God Himself has become the entire universe. This means, the God Himself is the raw material of the universe. This includes all the 16 or so fundamental particles of the high energy physics out of which DNA molecules are manufactured. This is also consistent with the saying of Sri Sankaracharya: "Brahma satya jagat mithya." meaning, God alone is real and the world is unreal.
So the way in which every human being meticulously plans and regulates his/her own growth, in the same way every particle of the universe meticulously plans and regulates its own growth.
...."Every particle of the universe meticulously plans and regulates its own growth". (Vikram Zaveri )
You are absolutely right Vikram Zaveri, that is exactly the truth prevailing in the universe.
The whole universe is living and conscious entity and it can plan and regulate its own activities. The following article throws detail light on this fact.
Article EVOLUTION AND RELATION OF MICROCOSM AND MACROCOSM
CORRELATION BETWEEN MICROCOSM AND MACROCOSM IS BEING CONFIRMED BY MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCHES OF SCIENTISTS WORLDWIDE
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/515084
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ----- Albert Einstein
The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. ----- Albert Einstein
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