DNA certainly contains a lot more information that we are capable of understanding. Just mapping it is not enough. Compared to a computer program, it is also the worst spaghetti code imaginable, and in the lowest-level language possible (except for binary). Maybe we can decompile very tiny pieces of it at a time, but then we can’t be sure if something in it depends on a completely different part of the code.
Evolution, the theory, makes sense to me as far as adaption and speciation, but I don’t think it fully explains us humans. According to the theory, evolution endows a species only with what it needs to survive, and anything else is by random change. That doesn’t explain how we are able to understand advanced mathematics, build computers, and go to the moon, however. That ability given to us just by chance seems very unlikely.
“According to the theory, evolution endows a species only with what it needs to survive, and anything else is by random change. “
According to the theory, evolution endows nothing. Random change produces individuals that are then more fit or less fit to survive. The more fit tend to survive and produce more offspring.
Evolution (in particular genetic coding) also fails to explain how the body plan is formed. Simply producing proteins is insufficient.
Another of the many problems with evolution is the part about transition from one species to another. It’s never been observed. And if you have an intuition for probability, you might see that for evolution to be true there would have to be a whole lot more transitional species—not just fossils of transitional species, but currently existing transitional species.
-— That doesn’t explain how we are able to understand advanced mathematics, build computers, and go to the moon, however. That ability given to us just by chance seems very unlikely. -—
The effect can’t be greater than the cause, or stated another way, the greater can’t come from the lesser. So if evolution happened, it would have to have been caused through a greater cause, I.e., God.
But evolutionary theory has scientific problems. The fossil evidence contradicts microevolution because it displays stasis in species. Species exit the fossil record in the same form that they appeared. The fossil evidence is overwhelming.
And as far as macro evolution is concerned, no one has proposed a remotely plausible mechanism.
“Maybe we can decompile very tiny pieces of it at a time, but then we can’t be sure if something in it depends on a completely different part of the code.”
Sounds like ObamaCare :)