Names of God in non-human DNA
Did God sign the DNA in other organisms?
Did God sign the DNA in other organisms? According to this exercise it seems he certainly did.
I took DNA sequences from four different small organisms and found the most common names for God appeared frequently. Not as often as in human DNA but one for about every 28 amino acids.
Human DNA was sequenced completely by 2006 but the first completed genome map was of a bacteriophage in 1977. (Bacteriophages are small parasites that invade bacteria). Although human DNA is really interesting, labs are also researching some workhorse organisms which are easy to grow, and hence to research. For this exercise I chose Japanese rice Oryza sativa (Japonica), the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, the common bacterium Escherichia coli (E. Coli), and the salt-loving bacterium, Halobacterium salinarum.
Rice
Sativa simply means “cultivated”. Rice besides being white can also be black, brown, purple and red. The best evidence is that it was first cultivated in China. It has 12 chromosomes.
The fruitfly
Some fun facts about fruitflies. They usually hover round rotting fruit. Their eyes have 760 facets, they beat their wings 220 times per second and during flight, are able to rotate their bodies 90 degrees and make sharp turns in just 50 milliseconds. Being small helps! It has 4 chromosomes including X or Y.
E. Coli
Some un-fun facts about E.Coli:
In 1885 German-Austrian pediatrics professor Escherich reported rod-shaped bacteria which were named after him, and again proved easy to grow in the lab. They can be a source of food poisoning, and some produce shigatoxin, which is one of the most poisonous substances known. 73000 people a year get infected in the USA and 60 die from it. Since the bacteria are in feces, it is easy to think our gut contents are mainly E.Coli, but not so. Only one in a thousand inhabitants of the gut is E.Coli. However there have been at least 345000 scientific papers which mention E. Coli. It has only one chromosome which is a double helix, and forms not a long line, but a closed circle.
Halobacterium salinarum
This is a bacterium-size organism quite different from bacteria, in spite of its name, and in a major biological classification called Archaea. They tend to live in extreme conditions of heat, or acidity or cold etc, and the one above particularly tolerates high salinity. You may have unwittingly eaten it: it is found in salted fish, and some sausage! It gives the pinkish colour to salt lakes, and has a very efficient DNA damage control system. None seems to cause disease in humans.
The amino acid sequence was a little different in these organisms than in human but I still ran the correspondence from most to less common amino acid and used the Swiss database UNIPROT or the Japanese database for amino acid frequencies.
For E.Coli (20,851 amino acids): the results were: YY 251, YH 136, AL 54, AB 61, Most high 69, HYH 11, YYY 27, YHWH 1, ELH 6, ELWH 1, QNA 0 (a name of God about every 34 Amino Acids)
For Drosophila melanogaster (41,393 amino acids): YY 386, YH 307, AL 124, HYH 24, AB 122, YYY 46, Most High 118, HSM 11, YHWH 1, ELH 15, ELWH 0, QNA 0 (a name of God about every 36 amino acids)
For Halobacterium salinarum (20,118 amino acids) YY 407, YH 262, AL 131, Most high 41, The Name 7, Jesus 0, Spirit 1, Elohim 0, Yahweh 1. HyH 14, YYY 49, ELH 15 ELWH 0, QNA 3 (a name of God about every 20 amino acids
For Oryza YY 421, YH 162, AL 76, AB 70, YYY 118, HYH 22, Most High 42, The Name 42, YHWH 1, ELH 4 ELWH 1, QNA 1 (Name of God about every 23 Amino acids)
For Homo Sapiens a name of God appeared about every 33 amino acids
If we look at YHWH, there were 11 examples in human DNA (100,000 Amino acids). But YHWH appeared only four times in these four organisms together. The probability of this ratio is only one in fifteen according to the Poisson statistical test performed in MS Excel. Humans are definitely more imprinted with The Signature!
These organisms are only four of many hundreds whose complete genetic sequences are available in databases.
Is God’s name on all of them? It looks like it from the sample so far, because of the structure of the Hebrew alphabet and grammar.
Happily, the names of God taken together are also more than occurrences of “woe” for these four organisms and for humans, and once again YY, YH and EL predominate.