Does DNA contain digital information?

[CoxRox]

Firstly, always be wary with animations, especially those used in biology. They are never as accurate as they seem to be; they are often presented in ways which the animators think the viewer will understand best. What might looks like very clever "machines" are often simple processes within the cell that don't really do anything as amazing as the animations seem to show.

I thought that must be the case regarding the 'diagram' of the bacterial flagellum. I remember showing it to my husband and he thought it was a motor of some kind. He looked rather bemused when I told him what it was..... I remember seeing an actual magnified image of the flagellum and it does look like the diagrams.

So no, I don't think it is surprising at all that over 4 billion years, cells have been able to take a task, and come up with efficient "machines" to execute it. Humans have done the same in a matter of years, but then we have the benefit of a working mind and can think ahead; the cells cannot.

Is it possible that a 'working mind' is needed to 'come up with efficient machines' like the cell?

I've come across a similar discussion on another atheist forum which I'm sure will cover all the things I've been wondering about.

http://www.freeratio.org/showthread.php?t=135497