Dna/quantum Computers And God's Intelligence

[Guest ApostleKnight]

I ran across this article awhile ago and was thinking about its implications in a gospel framework. The article talks about early work making computer processors out of DNA strands--the biochip. I'll paste an excerpt from the intriguing article:

DNA's key advantage is that it will make computers smaller than any computer that has come before them, while at the same time holding more data. One pound of DNA has the capacity to store more information than all the electronic computers ever built; and the computing power of a teardrop-sized DNA computer, using the DNA logic gates, will be more powerful than the world's most powerful supercomputer. More than 10 trillion DNA molecules can fit into an area no larger than 1 cubic centimeter (0.06 cubic inches). With this small amount of DNA, a computer would be able to hold 10 terabytes of data, and perform 10 trillion calculations at a time. By adding more DNA, more calculations could be performed.

Unlike conventional computers, DNA computers perform calculations parallel to other calculations. Conventional computers operate linearly, taking on tasks one at a time. It is parallel computing that allows DNA to solve complex mathematical problems in hours, whereas it might take electrical computers hundreds of years to complete them.

We talk about God's omniscience and perfect knowledge, but do we know how simple it might be for us to "upgrade" our capacity for learning and thinking like Him? Imagine having one pound of dedicated DNA "wired" into our intelligence as a harddrive. We would have the ability to store more information than all computers ever built...now we're approaching omniscience eh? And with a teardrop sized biochip we'd have more computing power than the world's best supercomputer...talk about intelligence.

And this biochip technology is in its embryonic state, imagine what we'll discover in ten years or twenty? What's that? Wanna upgrade your processor? Easy, just take a fingernail clipping, convert it into useable DNA strands, and there you go!

Now imagine having a planet-sized biochip of DNA strands running duodecillions of parallel computations simultaneously...and all plugged into your consciousness! A duodecillion is 10^39, or 10 to the 39th power, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000! There are about 6 billion people on earth right now...even if all of them were praying at the same time with different problems, that's only 6 billion tasks and a cubic centimeter of DNA can perform 10 trillion calculations at once. My God is far mightier than a cubic centimeter of DNA...I'm truly awed by what His Mind must be like and the refined power of His omniscience. To God alone the glory!

Another interesting article talks about quantum computers that use atoms for harddrives and processors for equally breathtaking computational speeds as a DNA biochip!