Page 759 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya

But the fact is that this is a terrible fraud and falsehood.
In fact, the fantasy of this first cell emerging from muddy water invented by
Darwinists is entirely compatible with the very backward level of science and tech-
nology in Darwin’s time. Bearing in mind that Darwin thought the cell was just a

sack of jelly, this childish account is just what one might expect from the knowl-
edge and scientific understanding of that era. It was easier to deceive people at
that time since they had no idea what the cell was like. But the findings that
emerged from the science of genetics once again proved that Darwinism is a total

deception. In the light of our present-day knowledge, just one of all the countless proteins possessed by
the cell is enough to refute the theory of evolution. Proteins are highly complex structures, and it is im-
possible for them to come into being by chance. So much so that it is impossible to reproduce them even
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with 21 -century technology under conscious and controlled laboratory conditions. To maintain that
such a structure came into being by chance in a puddle of muddy water is scientifically ludicrous and
even a violation of reason and logic. The American philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer expresses
the impossibility of a single protein forming by chance in these words:

Consider the probabilistic hurdles that must be overcome to construct even one short protein molecule of
about 100 amino acids in length. First, all amino acids must form a chemical bond known as a peptide bond

so as to join with other amino acids in the protein chain. Yet in nature many other types of chemical bonds
are possible between amino acids. The probability of building a chain of 100 amino acids in which all link-
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ages involve peptide bonds is roughly 1 chance in 10 .

Second, in nature every amino acid has a distinct mirror image of itself, one left-handed version (or L-form)
and one right-handed version (or D-form). These mirror-image forms are called optical isomers.
Functioning proteins tolerate only left-handed amino acids, yet the right-handed and left-
handed isomers occur in nature with roughly equal frequency. Taking this into con-

sideration compounds the improbability of attaining a biologically functioning
protein. The probability of attaining at random only L-amino acids in a hy-
pothetical peptide chain 100 amino acids long is (1/2) 100 or again
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roughly 1 chance in 10 .

Chance, the false god of Darwinists, has no
power to create anything. Allah, Lord of
the worlds, is the sole Creator.

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