DNA, Numbers, and Creation

It seems that our Creator likes numbers, since he made so many of them. He gave us various forms of mathematics that are used extensively in astronomy (and elsewhere). Consider that all of those stars have names (Isaiah 40:26, Psalm 147:4). It is estimated that there are 200 sextillion stars.

Scientists use those mind-boggling numbers on a regular basis, including astronomers, geologists, and even biologists. Someone suggested that people should stop saying million for emphasis because the average person really cannot grasp such a number.

DNA, Pixabay / Gerd Altmann (geralt)

Going the other way, people can understand seconds and minutes. When the numbers build up, they can be surprising. How many seconds back from July 25, 2025 did George Washington live? Over 9,259,000,000.

A few decades ago, computer memory devices of significant volume were huge. Nowadays, portable memory of multiple terabytes can be tucked into a shirt pocket. DNA stores huge amounts of information in a small area, and DNA is found in most of the trillions of cells in the human body. This came from the same Master Designer that made and named each star.

We frequently hear about millions of years in an evolutionary context. For instance, that 65 million years ago the dinosaurs went extinct due to an asteroid impact from space.

People who hold to this long-age worldview also believe that the heavens and the earth are billions of years old. The current ‘understanding’ is 13.8 billion years for the universe.

When it comes to the number of stars in the universe, they really do run in their trillions. Similarly large quantities are the many trillions of cells in our body. What do such big numbers mean? Can we grasp their quantity?

To see how this all adds up, read the rest at "Million, billion, trillion — Big numbers and magnificent DNA."