[Moseley]

You seem to have an almost religious reverence for DNA. But can you tell me what you think DNA IS?

I don't understand his discussion of God creating humans out of dust AND THEN SEPARATELY through DNA -- as if these are two different things.

If God created Adam out of dust -- the dust INCLUDES the DNA. The DNA is part of the dust that God fashioned into a human being.

[betty boop]

If God created Adam out of dust — the dust INCLUDES the DNA.

It seems to me this is not necessarily so. That is, I suspect DNA is not "in" the "dust" — if we take "dust" to mean physical matter. If DNA is "in" the matter, then inorganic minerals should be able to boot-strap themselves into organic life forms. (But we never observe this....)

DNA is a specification of life. As such, I imagine it was given "in the Beginning" according to the Word of God, Logos Alpha to Omega, along with the laws governing material Nature and its evolution in time.

Well, JMHO FWIW. Thank you so much for writing, Moseley — and for sponsoring this wonderful thread!