Here's a cool factoid to impress your friends with this weekend. On the DVD version of Unlocking the Mystery of Life, molecular biologist Dr. Dean Kenyon claims that a cubic millimeter of tightly packed DNA can store 1.9 x 1018bits of information (nearly two quintillion, or two billion billion). Put your thumb and forefinger as close together as you can without touching, and visualize a cube that height filled with DNA. We wondered, how many DVDs would it take to store that many bits? So we ran the numbers.
A standard DVD stores 4.7 gigabytes, which is a little over 40 billion bits. A DVD is about 1/20" thick. If you transcribed the information in one cubic millimeter of DNA onto DVDs and started stacking them up, by the time you were finished you would have a stack over 37 miles high. If you placed six Mt. Everests on top of each other, then three Empire State Buildings on top of that, the stack of DVDs would be taller by more than 200 feet. That's the information storage capacity in just one cubic millimeter of DNA.
There are so many discoveries listed at this site that have scientists surprised or befuddled because expectations and predictions based on evolutionism were rudely contradicted by facts, it's hilarious. But it's also tragic you love science, and hate to see astronomy, cosmology, biology, geology, etc. - not to mention so many otherwise fine, inquiring minds - hijacked by this "useless theory." But evolution muddles on, unfalsified, because ... well, it's a religion of the worst kind, complete with high priests, harassment, intimidation, and censorship.
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