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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

3. DNA manufactures the protein-synthesizing en-
zymes. Protein cannot be synthesized without DNA. DNA is
therefore also needed in order for proteins to form.

4. All the organelles in the cell have important tasks in
protein synthesis. In other words, in order for proteins to
form a perfect and fully functioning cell needs to exist to-
gether with all its organelles.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell
and which stores genetic information, is a magnificent data-
bank. If the information coded in DNA were written down, it
would make a giant library consisting of an estimated 900 vol-
umes of encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages each.
A very 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 re-
alized 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 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. 6

No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated spon-
taneously as a result of blind coincidences, then it has to be ac-

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