Em palestra de 1999, Dr. Enéas explica por que acredita em Deus

The more developed telescopes become The radio telescopes The more we aim at our Universe The more desperate man becomes Because of his cosmic insignificance We are, as Carl Sagan used to say (already deceased): "A pale blue dot in the Universe. " (We, the planet) A pale blue dot. .

. And in front of so many considerations, I again ask: What Century is this that's almost over? How much knowledge, how much information!

Few days ago I was in a radio program And in front of me I had a famous astronomer Everyone knows who he is. . .

Professor Mourão We were having a conversation, live. And confronted by all these considerations He said he didn't believe in life after death He said, live: "I believe in life spread through the cosmos. .

. " (So do I) "But. .

. " "I believe when we die, everything is over. " Then I retorted.

We were in a group of four: A benedictine monk, a protestant pastor. . .

I, as a medic, and Professor Mourão, astronomer. And I said: I respect your opinion, I respect. .

. the opinion of any human being. But I disagree with you.

When I look to the human chromosome one chromosome, one. One of ours. It has 5 billion nucleotides Is everyone here a medic?

Everyone knows that the nucleotides are made of: a nitrogenated base, a phosphate radical and a sugar? Ribose, etc. Everyone knows.

Five billion. It just so happens that every nucleotide has, interlaced around itself in its interior, the bases: Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine. So, it can be affirmed that a human chromosome (has) (Five time four.

. . ) 20 billion units of information.

Bits, right? Bits. It's possible to prove, and.

. . The gentlemen who after four months of listening to me I believe they believe on me.

It's possible to prove that a letter from any alphabet Can be identified with six bits. Any letter. Well, if.

. . (I'm talking about the human chromosome) A human chromosome.

If it has 5 billion nucleotides, 20 billion bits If I now want to convert this to letters I mean: What is written in my chromosome? (of any of us) You divide 20 by 6 Correct? 6 bits per letter.

It gives you 3 and a fraction. 3 billion letters! Let's see what this is?

I still have time. 3 billion letters. One word, in the languages we know our current languages (Right?

We know because we see) (I am not as fortunate as my friend beside me, who speaks 6, 7 languages) (But the common languages, of English, French, Italians, Castilian. . .

) A word has, in average, 6 letters. (6 letters) All I'm talking about refers to the human chromosome. We have 3 billion letters, if you divide it by 6 letters You have 500 million words 500 million words in one chromosome!

Pay attention to where I'm going. If a page from a book, any book, (Like this one) If one page has in average In average, 300 words (one page) (all in one chromosome) If you divide 500 x 10 to the sixth power (500 million words) by 300 words on each page (Simplifying this gives us around 1. 7.

I'll round it to 2) You have 2 million pages! (In one chromosome) If you take a book. An average book that's 500 pages wide If you divide (I'll calculate it here on this corner) If you divide 2 x 10 to the sixth power, which is the same as 20 x 10 to the fifth, correct?

(basic) If I divide this by 500 around 500. (If I. .

. 2 billion. .

. going back) Just so I don't get it wrong: 5 billion nucleotides, 20 billion bits 3 billion letters, 500 million words 2 million pages. 2 million pages, if you divide this you have: 20 divided by 5 is 4.

10 to the fifth and 10 squared gives you 10 to the third. You have 4 thousand books! Of this width!

4 thousand books of 500 pages written in one chromosome! How beautiful! I refuse to accept that this is due to sheer randomness.

I have the right to refuse I look at PPLO. (Which my daughter loves) The smallest living free structure. (I'm not talking about the virus) *A virus is not considered a living being because it has no cell.

And I look at that thing, PPLO. It has one billionth Of 5 tenths of a millionth of a gram. It's one billionth of an amoeba's mass!

Living, moving full of enzymes, a confusing mess. I can't accept. I see, in everything that surrounds me, the hand of God.

As you gentlemen were my students gave me this honor, this happiness. I have the right to in the end of the year, the Century, the Millennium (with the appropriate discussions, that it would be next year) (but everyone is accepting that it's now) I have the right to say that I believe in an extraordinary force which I cannot understand, I don't even have the pretension to understand I am far from understanding, but I believe in God. I believe the difference between the poor man who sweeps the ground and the medicine professional who cateterizes, who opens an artery, is in the level of information.

We were born with it. With 4 thousand books! In each chromosome.

This is how my eye cell knows what it has to do My liver's cell works this way. Everything is programmed! We are all similar.

. . wanting or not!

White, Black, Jewish, Arab, African, everything! Nothing irritates me more than discrimination of any kind! Hateful.

. . We are all humans.

Wanting it or not! We were all made (at least in my conception) according to the Creator's project.