Page 21 - Never Plead Ignorance

HARUN YAHYA 19

An imaginary drawing: dinosaurs
that suddenly took wing while try-
ing to catch flies.

In brief, the sce-
narios that the
forelegs of a reptile
transformed into
wings and that then they
started flying has no scientific ba-
sis whatsoever. Never plead igno-
rance of the fact that a reptile can nev-
er transform into a bird.

Another fact invalidates the theory of evolution. Evolutionists fail to
bring an explanation of how life originated on earth.
All living beings are made up of cells. For instance, there are 100 tril-
lion cells in a human organism. Proteins are the basic building blocks of
the cell. The formation, under natural conditions, of but one single pro-
tein, out of the thousands of complex protein molecules making up the
cell, is not possible.
Proteins are giant molecules consisting of smaller units called
"amino-acids", the simplest of which is composed of 50 amino acids, but
there are some that are composed of thousands of amino acids. The cru-
cial point is that the absence, addition, or replacement of a single amino
in the structure of a protein would transform it into a useless molecular
heap. Every amino acid has to be at the right place and in the right order.
The fact that the functional structure of proteins absolutely cannot
come about by chance can easily be understood even from simple proba-
bility calculations that anybody can understand.
An average sized protein molecule is composed of 288 amino acids
of which there are twelve different types. These can be arranged in 10 300