DNA: A Glorious Marvel of Creation Each person has an average of
100 trillion cells, each of which contains a DNA molecule. Just
one of these contains information regarding 3 billion different
subjects, enough information to fill approximately 1,000 volumes
of books, each one containing 1 million pages. If we were to lay
these pages out side by side, they would stretch from the North
Pole to the Equator. If we were to read it 24 hours a day, it
would take 100 years to finish it. This glorious information
belongs to a single DNA molecule, which exists everywhere in our
body, such as in a single fingernail or a single hair. How could
such an incredible library have been squeezed into a minute hair
too small to be seen with the naked eye? How could it have been
packed into all of the cells that constitute that hair and all
of the other cells that make up our body? How could so much
information, which we could never carry on our own, have been
installed in our bodies 100 trillion times? Could human beings
manage