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The Origin of Life and the Universe

+ glance, one might have to conclude that life
could never, in fact, have originated by chemical
8 3 57 means.” 3

Douglas R. Hofstadter:
“How a single egg cell divides to form so nu-
Mathematics has now proven that chance merous differentiated cells, and the perfect natural
plays no role in the formation of the data encoded communication and the cooperation between
in DNA. The word "impossible" fails to do justice these cells top the events that amaze scien-
to the probability of just one of the 30,000 genes tists.” 4
making up DNA forming by chance, let alone a
DNA molecule consisting of billions of components. Francis Crick (Nobel Prize-winning evolutionist ge-
Evolutionists make the following confessions in neticist who, together with James Watson, discovered
regard to this topic: DNA):
“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge
Carly P. Haskins (Evolutionist biologist): available to us now, could only state that, in
“But the most sweeping evolutionary questions some sense, the origin of life appears at the mo-
at the level of biochemical genetics are still ment to be almost a miracle.” 5
unanswered. How the genetic code first appeared
and then evolved and, earlier even than that, John Maddox (Former editor of Nature magazine):
how life itself originated on Earth remain for the “It is disappointing that the origin of the genetic
future to resolve... Did the code and the means code is still as obscure as the origin of life it-
of translating it appear simultaneously in evolution? self.” 6
It seems almost incredible that any such coinci-
dence could have occurred, given the extraordinary Pierre Grassé (French evolutionist and zoologist):
complexities of both sides and the requirement “Any living being possesses an enormous
that they be coordinated accurately for survival. amount of "intelligence," very much more than is
By a pre-Darwinian (or a skeptic of evolution necessary to build the most magnificent of cat-
after Darwin) this puzzle would surely have been hedrals. Today, this "intelligence" is called infor-
interpreted as the most powerful sort of evidence mation, but it is still the same thing. It is not prog-
for special creation.” 1 rammed as in a computer, but rather it is con-
densed on a molecular scale in the chromosomal
Leslie E. Orgel (Evolutionist biochemist): DNA or in that of every other organelle in each
“We do not understand even the general fea- cell. This "intelligence" is the sine qua non of life.
tures of the origin of the genetic code... [It] is the Where does it come from? . . This is a problem
most baffling aspect of the problem of the origins that concerns both biologists and philosophers,
of life and a major conceptual or experimental and, at present, science seems incapable of sol-
breakthrough may be needed before we can ving it.” 7
make any substantial progress.” 2
1- Haskins, Caryl P., "Advances and Challenges in Science in 1970", American
Scientist, vol. 59 (May/June 1971), p. 305
Paul Auger (Evolutionist and French scientist): 2- Orgel, Leslie E, "Darwinism at the Very Beginning of Life", New Scientist, vol.94
(April 15, 1982), p.151
“It is extremely improbable that proteins and 3- Paul Auger, De La Physique Theorique a la Biologie, 1970, p. 118
nucleic acids, both of which are structurally com- 4- Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gidel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, New York:
Vintage Books, 1980, p. 548
plex, arose spontaneously in the same place at 5- Francis Crick, Life Itself: It's Origin and Nature, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1981,
p. 88
the same time. Yet it also seems impossible to 6- http://www.icr.org/headlines/darwinvindicated.html; Was Darwin Really "Vindicated"?,
Frank Sherwin, Institute for Creation Research, April 30, 2001
have one without the other. And so, at first 7- Pierre P. Grassé, The Evolution of Living Organisms, 1977, p. 168
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