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HARUN YAHYA
…life cannot have had a random beginning. Troops of monkeys thun-
dering away at random typewriters could not produce the works of
Shakespeare, for the practical reason that the whole observable universe
is not large enough to contain the necessary monkey hordes, the neces-
sary typewriters, and certainly the waste paper baskets required for the
deposition of wrong attempts. The same is true for living material. The
likelihood of the spontaneous formation of life from inanimate matter is
one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it... It is big enough to bury
Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup,
neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were
not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful
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The Enigma of Unwanted Sequences

During the copying of DNA by RNA in some cells, amazing
events take place. The enzyme that produces RNA reads and copies
the code in the DNA relevant to the protein it will produce, but it
sometimes runs across codes that aren't needed for this production.
Because during replication, the enzyme reads the DNA fragments in
order, it has to read the irrelevant instructions as well. But remember,
even one irrelevant instruction can render an entire synthesized pro-
tein completely worthless.
Let's examine in more detail the problem this enzyme encoun-
ters. Say a protein of 1,000 amino acids is to be produced. If each
amino acid is represented by three bases (a codon), then in order to
perform this duty, the enzyme needs to read a 3,000 base pair DNA
sequence-in order. But within this 3,000-base pair sequence is a com-
plete sequence of say 500 base pairs for which the enzyme has no
need. But in order to reach the instructions that follow, the enzyme
cannot just skip over these 500 base pairs without copying them. It
must copy them whether it wants to or not. The enzyme cannot cut the
giant DNA molecule, nor can it skip over it. What would you-a human
being, possessed of intellect-do to solve this problem?

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