Question: Do you have an irrefutable argument against evolution?

Question: I do not believe in evolution. Yet I find it difficult at times to present a precise argument refuting it. It seems that my discussions can go on and on and eventually deteriorate into futile arguments that get nowhere. Do you have a simple argument that gets right to the point quickly and is irrefutable?

Response: Let me suggest that you present the facts concerning DNA. This is the simplest and most powerful proof of the necessity of an intelligent Creator that I know. Were he alive today, Darwin would be shocked to see his theory shattered by what has been recently discovered about DNA.

We each begin as a single cell smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. Instructions for building the body are encoded in the DNA in an ingenious language that only certain protein molecules can decode and read. These words give that microscopic cell (and all those it will produce) the instructions for constructing trillions of living cells out of nonliving materials and arranging them in the precise relationship with one another to eventually function as a human body.

The ability of DNA to store information is so incredibly vast that were the contents of a mere pinhead’s-worth printed out in English, it would take a stack of books 500 times as high as the distance from earth to the moon to contain it. We don’t have computers that can come even close to that storing and processing power.

Obviously, the DNA itself did not originate (and can’t even read) the information it carries. Those words point irrefutably to an Intelligence that alone could design the body. This “instruction manual” could not grow out of a series of fortuitous evolutionary chance developments over billions of years. Such a theory is totally unreasonable. Yet it is forced upon school children around the world by bigots who are so insecure in what they believe that they will not allow an alternate view to be expressed.