(Worthy Insights) – Scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they’ve engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than any other lifeform on Earth.
They call their creation “Syn57,” a bioengineered strain of E. coli — yes, the same bad boy that can make you extremely sick if you eat an undercooked hot dog — which uses seven less codons than all life on earth. A codon, put simply, is a three-letter sequence found in DNA and RNA which delivers instructions for amino acids, a fundamental “building block” of life.
For the past billions years or so, all known life on earth has used 64 codons. Scientists cracked the code detailing which codons corresponded to which amino acids — mapping the standard genetic code, in other words — in 1966, revealing only 20 total amino acids. [ Source (Read More…) ]
Editor’s Note: Scientists may claim they’ve “engineered” a more efficient genetic code in their Syn57 bacteria, but all they’ve really done is tinker with what God already designed. They didn’t create life from scratch, nor did they invent the genetic code itself—they edited an existing system that was already far beyond human invention.
For thousands of years, life has functioned perfectly well with the 64-codon system. The fact that humans had to borrow from God’s design and carefully rewire parts of it only highlights that the genetic code is not random—it’s intentional, complex, and intelligently ordered. If anything, Syn57 proves that life does not “evolve” into better systems on its own; it takes intelligence, planning, and foresight to alter even the tiniest aspects.
In other words, every “advance” that science claims only points back to the brilliance of the original Creator.