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The Deception of Evolution
plex structures. The cell of a living thing is more complex than all
of our man-made technological products. Today, even in the
most developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be
produced by bringing organic chemicals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too
great in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The
probability of proteins, the building blocks of a cell, being syn-
thesized coincidentally, is 1 in 10 950 for an average protein made
up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability smaller than
1 over 10 50 is considered to be impossible 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 information coded in DNA were written down, it would
make a giant library consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of
encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages each.
Avery interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can
replicate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins
(enzymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be real-
ized only by the information coded in DNA. As they both de-
pend 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 impossi-
ble to have one without the other. And so, at first glance, one
might have to conclude that life could never, in fact, have orig-
inated by chemical means. 67
No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated from
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