The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that comparing DNA encoding to binary computer programming may explain historical evolutionary bursts that go far beyond anything that could have been anticipated by Darwinian natural selection theory. Statistical analysis of biological sequences suggests that randomness may have a negligible effect on evolution. Every organism is preprogrammed with a binary encoded genetic template for what it could evolve to as a species plus endless possibilities for the evolution of new species. Each DNA molecule consists of a base pair of nucleotides, either guanine (G) coupled with cytosine (C), or adenine (A) coupled with thymine (T). GC and AT are base molecules linked together in long chains. This is analogous to binary computer coding in which each molecule is either a “GC” or an “AT” (rather than a “1” or a “0”). Advanced species have significantly less DNA encoding than primitive species. The amphibian that evolved from a fish no longer needs those parts of its DNA that were exclusive to fish and so loses them. Similarly, the lizard loses those parts of its DNA that were required by amphibians, and so on up the evolutionary scale. Every species carries with it disproportionately huge amounts of inactive DNA that they themselves cannot possibly use. This is for the apparent purpose of keeping biological codes in reserve as a backup contingency plan in case of mass extinctions.