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Originally Posted by The_Radiation_Specialist
4) Doesn't the "few billion" bits of data that the human DNA stores seem a bit too low? I would imagine there would be way more data on how a human would function. All those cells would need a lot of instructions.
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I think your intuition is correct. I remember reading, or hearing (can't recall where) that at the start of the 20th century biologists expected genetic material to be considerably more complex than it turned out to me. They were a bit surprised with what they found since the sixties.
The unexpected simplicity and sparseness of our DNA is evidence in favour of evolution / against ID, by the way. Clearly, fairly simple building blocks can lead to stunning phenotypical variety.