Peace: Global DNA and Information

Central to our discussion on peace is the link between DNA and information. The main role of the DNA molecule is the long-term storage of information. As we have discussed earlier, it contains the instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. This is why I asked the question whether DNA is God. The bottom line is that without the information that is encoded in DNA there would be no life and the characteristics and properties of all forms of life appear to be the outworking of the instructions in some master DNA molecule in the universe.

The difference between human and non-human DNA sheds a great deal of light on our discussion. Based on our observations, and that is the best source of evidence we have, at the biological or physiological level DNA in human and non-human species has not changed appreciably over time. Any appreciable difference in the instructions found in a DNA molecule is indicative of a different species.

As intimated in an earlier blog, these discussion focus on the cultural aspect of DNA.

Again, there seems to be no appreciable change in the cultural DNA of non-human species over time. Regardless of specific views on origins, species do not seem to change their cultural behaviors over time. Whales are hard-wired to eat a particular diet and this is all they eat. If their food source were to disappear they don’t change their dietary habits to suit the changing circumstances. This is one of the reasons why species come under pressure. Carnivorous species do not become herbivores when they are unable to find prey.

The variability that is encoded in the DNA molecule allows for “unique” behaviors individuals but the behavior of the species remains constant. For example, we may be able to train dolphins to perform tricks but if two trained dolphins mate their offspring will not be similarly trained. All of this seems to indicate that each non-human species is well-educated; fully developed and mature.

The generally fixed behavior that we observe in species determines the parameters within which the infants of the species will be developed. As an example, newly hatched larks cannot fly and they also cannot whistle. Everyone knows that they will soon learn how to fly but will never learn how to whistle. The reasons are obvious. They learn their cultural behavior from their parents. This cultural behavior includes the desire to work together for the health and survival of the species.

This process has continued unchanged for thousands of years under the watchful eye of an unchanging DNA molecule.