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2023 marks the 70th anniversary of Watson and Crick's Nobel prize-winning discovery of DNA. Since then, we continue to discover astounding features in this dense information storage device. Allow me to illustrate DNA's capabilities with a made-up story about the discovery of an electronic tablet (DNA) in a deserted alien spaceship.
If you have ever attempted to loosen a bolt, you encountered chirality (ky-RAHL-ittee). Perhaps you muttered the phrase "lefty loosey, righty tighty". That's because nearly all bolts are threaded in one direction.
Before we make further progress towards deflating evolution's significance as even partially true, we need to address the seemingly untouchable argument of deep time.
Evolution rests on the chance-based idea that raw matter plus undirected energy creates increasingly complex and ordered systems.
You can blame it on the devil. He started this whole mess by posing an evil question: Yea, hath God said?