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HARUN YAHYA
acid is left out. If any of these mistakes occur, the desired protein will
not be made, and a different, unwanted protein will be synthesized.
But cells and organisms will not generally tolerate foreign proteins.
They will make antibodies against them and demonstrate an allergic
reaction.
Like other elements in the cell, ribosomes are formed from life-
less atoms. But this heap of protein succeeds in manufacturing thou-
sands of different products by numerous complicated processes, with
an intelligence that cannot be its own, but which is possible through
the creation of God.
The synthesis of just one protein, according to instructions given
in the DNA, requires at least 75 helper molecules in the cell working
together in harmony. The enzymes carrying out the duty of copying
the instructions in the DNA are not included in this number.
Each protein molecule is made, the last amino acid is attached,
and the protein is complete. But the synthesis is not considered fin-
ished until the cell (or more correctly, its ribosomes) go through one
more control checkpoint. If any fault is found at the last minute, the
cell does not just say, "That's good enough. Let this one go through,"
and produce a molecule like this outside of the plan. Such tolerance,
allowing the construction of a protein that's not the one originally
planned, will degenerate the cell's control system and drive it towards
disorder and destructive anarchy-a state that comes about only in
pathologic conditions or when the cell is dying.
Under normal, healthy circumstances, a protein molecule that is
incomplete and imperfect is delivered to destructive enzymes that
break many or all of its peptide bonds. They reduce the protein to its
constituent amino acids or into short, harmless polypeptide chains
and leave them available as structural building blocks for other pro-
tein syntheses.
This cellular process amazes even Prof. Muammer Bilge, a
Turkish evolutionist academician and cell specialist:
Because of the facilitation of all of these results as required within the

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