Scott Aaranson once said that he would consider it criminal if he had the option of making sure that his child was as smart as Turing and he deprived her of it. I totally agree.
Our ability to understand our genetic code is a bit less than the ability of an Ancient Egypt scribe to understand Haskell. With a bit of effort he could figure out individual letters, with a genius level of insight he could figure out a few words. From here to functional composition or monads it's a long way to go.