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The Deception of Evolution

teins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is
1 in 10 9 5 0 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathe-
matics, a probability smaller than 1 over 10 is considered to be im-
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possible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the in-

formation coded in DNAw e re written down, it would make a giant li-
brary consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias
consisting of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA c a n
replicate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (en-
zymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be re a l i z e d
only by the information coded in DNA. As they both depend on

each other, they have to exist at the same time for replication. This
brings the scenario that life originated by itself to a deadlock. Prof.
Leslie Orgel, an evolutionist of repute from the University of San
Diego, California, confesses this fact in the September 1994 issue of
the Scientific American magazine:
It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of which are
structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same place at the same

time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one without the other. And so, at
first glance, one might have to conclude that life could never, in fact, have
originated by chemical means.
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No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated from natu-
ral causes, then it has to be accepted that life was "created" in a super-

natural way. This fact explicitly invalidates the theory of evolution,
whose main purpose is to deny creation.

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