Dr. Stephen Meyer

DNA contains machine code.

Well, what do we know about the origin of machine code or of digital code or of software?

It always comes from a programmer.

And in fact, whenever we see information and trace it back to its source, whether it's in software or in a paragraph in a book or in…

hieroglyphic inscription or the information that we're transmitting with acoustic waves right now, information always ultimately comes from a mind, not a material process.

And the most fundamental discovery in modern biology, post Watson and Crick, is that the DNA molecule and other large

Information-bearing structures in cells are information-bearing.

They contain information.

So that suggests that life owes its origin at some level to a mind.

There's a master programmer behind life.

This was...

Francis Crick's big insight, he and Watson elucidate the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953.

1957, he realizes what the chemical subunits along the interior of the DNA are doing.

He realizes they're functioning like alphabetic characters in a written language or zeros and ones in a section of software.

And they're providing instructions for building the proteins and protein machines that all cells need to stay alive.

And this becomes known as the sequence hypothesis.

Bill Gates is right.

It's like a software program or like a 3D printer where we take digital code and we use digital information to construct a three-dimensional structure.

That's what's going on inside cells.

And so that just kind of revolutionizes biology and also raises this huge question, where does the information come from?