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57 than that, how life itself originated on earth
remain for the future to resolve.... Did the code
and the means of translating it appear simulta-
neously in evolution? It seems almost incredible
that any such coincidence could have occurred,
The question of how such an extraordinarily given the extraordinary complexities of both sides
designed molecule as DNA originated is one of and the requirement that they be coordinated
the thousands of impasses evolutionists reach. accurately for survival. By a pre-Darwinian (or a
Evolutionist Douglas R. Hofstadter of Indiana skeptic of evolution after Darwin) this puzzle
University, states his despair in the face of this would surely have been interpreted as the most
question: powerful sort of evidence for special creation. 3
"How did the Genetic Code, along with the mec- In his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis,
hanisms for its translation (ribosomes and RNA writing of the invalidity of the theory of evolution,
molecules), originate?" For the moment, we will renowned molecular biologist Prof. Michael Den-
have to content ourselves with a sense of wonder ton explains the unreasonable conviction of Dar-
and awe, rather than with an answer. 1 winists:
Another evolutionist authority, world renowned To the skeptic, the proposition that the genetic
molecular biologist Leslie Orgel, is more outs- programmes of higher organisms, consisting of
poken on the subject: something close to a thousand million bits of in-
It is extremely improbable that proteins and formation, equivalent to the sequence of letters
nucleic acids, both of which are structurally com- in a small library of one thousand volumes, con-
plex, arose spontaneously in the same place at taining in encoded form countless thousands of
the same time. Yet it also seems impossible to intricate algorithms controlling, specifying, and
have one without the other. And so, at first ordering the growth and development of billions
glance, ONE MIGHT HAVE TO CONCLUDE and billions of cells into the form of a complex
THAT LIFE COULD NEVER, IN FACT, HAVE organism, were composed by a purely random
ORIGINATED BY CHEMICAL MEANS. 2 process is simply AN AFFRONT TO REASON.
Saying "life could never have originated by BUT TO THE DARWINIST, THE IDEA IS AC-
chemical means" is the equivalent of saying CEPTED WITHOUT A RIPPLE OF DOUBT -
that "life could never have originated by itself." THE PARADIGM TAKES PRECEDENCE! 4
Recognition of the truth of this statement results Indeed, Darwinism is nothing but a totally un-
in the realization that life is created in a conscious reasonable, superstitious belief. Anyone with
way. For ideological reasons, evolutionists, ho- any reason would see the evidence for that
wever, do not accept this fact, clear evidence of great fact by looking at DNA, or any other part
which is before their eyes. To avoid accepting of the universe. Human beings and all living
the existence of God, they believe in nonsensical things are created by God, the Almighty, who is
scenarios, despite their evident impossibility. the Lord of all the worlds.
Another evolutionist, Caryl P. Haskins, states
how the DNA code could not have emerged by
chance, and that this fact is strong evidence for 1- Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,
creation: New York: Vintage Books, 1980, p. 548
2- Leslie E. Orgel, "The Origin of Life on Earth", Scientific American, vol.
But the most sweeping evolutionary questions 271, October 1994, p. 78
at the level of biochemical genetics are still 3- Haskins, Caryl P., "Advances and Challenges in Science in 1970",
American Scientist, vol.59 (May/June 1971), p.305)
unanswered. How the genetic code first ap- 4- Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, London: Burnett Books,
1985, p. 351
peared and then evolved and, earlier even