Foundations of Creation: Volume 16

Inside every cell of your body is a message — three billion letters of precisely arranged biological information that directs, regulates, and sustains life with a complexity that dwarfs the most advanced human technology. In this mind-expanding volume of Foundations of Creation, young readers explore the world of DNA and discover why the information encoded within it is one of the most powerful arguments for a Creator ever identified. Every code ever discovered by human beings has come from a mind — and DNA is no exception. Scientist John Sanford’s groundbreaking concept of “genetic entropy” is explained clearly: mutations accumulate in genomes over time like errors in a photocopied document, degrading genetic information rather than building it — a process that makes a hundreds-of-thousands-of-years human history genetically impossible. The celebrated examples of evolution in action — antibiotic resistance, blind cavefish, beak variation — are shown to involve the loss or modification of existing information, not the generation of new functional complexity. The ENCODE project’s demolition of the “junk DNA” myth is celebrated, and the emerging science of epigenetics reveals organisms pre-programmed with remarkable adaptive capacity. The study of created “kinds” — baraminology — explains how enormous variety within dog, cat, and other kinds arose rapidly after the Flood without any kind ever crossing into another. The greatest code in the universe had an Author.