One day, while still working at the Public Relations office at the University of Chile, I was assigned to go interview a scientist that had just retuned from the US. He had obtained a scholarship at Stanford University because of his work in Chile on DNA. When I met him, he had a white coat and a white tiny mouse on his coat upper pocket. He also had thick glasses, a moustache and a big smile.

The first thing he told me after I asked what he had learn during his studies abroad was, “ I learn that God exists”. Of course, my reaction was very “professional” and I asked for justification of his statement. He had learned that the intricate composition and design of DNA cannot be a happenstance or chance. No human brain could even think about something so perfect.

In fact, this professor said that, when studying the DNA structure, you cannot deny the presence of intelligent design. DNA is like a blueprint for life.

DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is the key foundation on which the structure of life is built. It consist of units of biological building blocks called nucleotides. A complete set of your DNA is a genome. It contains 3.2 billion nucleotides of DNA, 20,000 genes, and 23 pairs of chromosomes.

DNA, which you inherit from both parents, transfer hereditary information from generation to generation and controls the production of proteins. The interesting thing is that 97.5% of human DNA is exactly the same as that of a mouse. That’s only a 2.5% difference in genetic information.

According to Ancestry this is what my DNA reveals:

It was quite a challenge to write that article in a way that would be acceptable for publishing by, the then already cynical attitude of, the major newspapers and magazines.