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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

How life began is one of nature's enduring mysteries. (Brian
Switek, "Debate bubbles over the origin of life", Nature, Febru-
ary 13, 2012)

Harvard chemist George Whitesides made the following confes-
sion in his acceptance speech of the Priestley Medal, the highest

award of the American Chemical Society:

The Origin of Life. This problem is one of the big ones in science.

... Most chemists believe, as do I, that life emerged spontaneous-
ly from mixtures of molecules in the prebiotic Earth. How? I
have no idea. (George M. Whitesides, "Revolutions In Chem-
istry: Priestley Medalist George M. Whitesides' Address",
Chemical and Engineering News, 85: 12-17, March 26, 2007)

The DNA molecule, located in the nucleus of a cell and which
stores genetic information, is a magnificent databank. If the informa-

tion coded in DNA were transcribed on paper, it would make a giant
library consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of 500 pages each.

A very interesting insurmountable predicament emerges at this
point for the evolutionists: DNA can replicate itself only with the
help of some specialized proteins (enzymes). However, the synthesis
of these enzymes can be realized only by the information coded in

DNA. As they both depend on each other, they must exist at the
same time for replication. This razes the scenario where life originat-
ed by itself to the ground. 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

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