We have been working our way through several areas of science that indicate the possibility of God’s existence, thanks to recent scientific discoveries. So far we have covered the beginning of the universe, the beginning of life, and large-scale design. This time, let’s take a look at life on the molecular level and see what science has been discovering about that.

Michael Behe shook up the biological world when he wrote Darwin’s Black Box, which explored something known as molecular machines and irreducible complexity. For example, he looked at the bacterial flagellar motor used to propel bacteria through its medium. These motors have a large number of parts that all have to be there simultaneously for the motor to work, which seems to argue against random, slow-developing evolution. He asks how it is possible for an undesigned process like evolution to bring about all the correct parts at the same time. Having a portion of the motor would not give the organism any advantage. This and other machines on the small scale seem to suggest a designer behind it all.

The other big area of biology that also seems to bring an intelligent designer into the picture is DNA. Bill Gates once said DNA was like a computer program but “far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” Science has now discovered DNA is a computer language used to create proteins, the building blocks of life. All languages we have ever encountered always came from an intelligence source, so it’s easy to make the case that DNA had to have a programmer behind it. If you would like to see DNA in action, take a look at The Mystery of Life’s Origins, a DVD put out by Illustra Media. In this documentary, we see a computer-aided video that shows DNA as it is used to create proteins. It’s fascinating.

I’d like to explore in the next blog post a few more discoveries that have led many scientists to conclude that it is certainly possible God exists.