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The Miracles of our Prophet (saas)

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
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smaller than 1 over 10 is considered to be impossible in prac-
tical terms.
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. 109

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