Any adequate explanation for the existence of the DNA-coded database and for the prodigious information storage and processing capabilities of the living cell must involve a source of information that transcends the basic physical and chemical materials out of which the cell is constructed. As Microsoft founder Bill Gates has put it: “DNA is like a computer program, but far, far more advanced than any software we’ve ever created.”33 Such processors and programmes, on the basis of all we know from computer science, cannot be explained, even in principle, without the involvement of a mind.
