Hi - I'm a Christian and have been since 1964, when I was in college. My degree is in EE, but I’m a Systems Engineer now and formerly a Software Engineer.
A few years ago I felt that God was suggesting to me that as the Creator, Chief Architect of the Universe, and the Author of all Art, that, like an artist, that He has signed His work of creation.
I think maybe that in what we consider Junk DNA, that God's signature may be present. If you search the binary code of a program, like Microsoft Word, you will find all kinds of text with copyright this or that. Microsoft signed it’s work.
It appears that the genetic code in DNA could (fairly) easily be represented in binary, based on the small number of combinations in each rung on the ladder. (I'm not a geneticist it should be obvious). I'd search junk DNA for key phrases in the Bible. Such as "Hear oh Israel, the Lord your God is one Lord... I'd look for ASCII characters in English, UNICODE for Hebrew, and the numerics for the Hebrew letters.
My question is this. Now that the genome has been mapped, how does one get a copy of at least the junk DNA sequences in order to do some searching?
I think that if God has signed his work, and this is the time He wishes to reveal it, that it will not be some life long wild goose chase to find. But, rather with some serious prayer, hard work and many CPU cycles, it could be done.
If anyone wants to go off and do such a thing solo, have at it. But, if you know where to get the gene sequences for junk DNA, I'd appreciate a few references.
If anyone has any helpful suggestions, such as how to decide the way DNA would be represented in binary, please chime in.
From my reading of past posts, i'd say the ratio of believers to non-belivers on this site is about 1:10. So, I don't know if I should expect much help.
However, IF one could find (without a lot of convoluted hocus pocus) such a "signature", the debate (IMHO) would be over. At least there would be a lot more evidence to debate.
Thanks,
Fred Seigneur (pronounced Sr.)
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