Page 203 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

evolutionists claim it did. In this case, the right- and left-handed amino
acids that were generated by chance should be present in roughly equal
proportions in nature. Therefore, all living things should have both right-
and left-handed amino acids in their constitution, because chemically it is
possible for amino acids of both types to combine with each other.
However, as we know, in the real world the proteins existing in all living
organisms are made up only of left-handed amino acids.
The question of how proteins can pick out only the left-handed ones
from among all amino acids, and how not even a single right-handed
amino acid gets involved in the life process, is a problem that still baffles
evolutionists. Such a specific and conscious selection constitutes one of the
greatest impasses facing the theory of evolution.
Moreover, this characteristic of proteins makes the problem facing
evolutionists with respect to "chance" even worse. In order for a
"meaningful" protein to be generated, it is not enough for the amino acids
to be present in a particular number and sequence, and to be combined
together in the right three-dimensional design. Additionally, all these
amino acids have to be left-handed: not even one of them can be right-
handed. Yet there is no natural selection mechanism which can identify
that a right-handed amino acid has been added to the sequence and
recognize that it must therefore be removed from the chain. This situation
once more eliminates for good the possibility of coincidence and chance.
The Britannica Science Encyclopaedia, which is an outspoken defender
of evolution, states that the amino acids of all living organisms on earth,
and the building blocks of complex polymers such as proteins, have the
same left-handed asymmetry. It adds that this is tantamount to tossing a
coin a million times and always getting heads. The same encyclopaedia
states that it is impossible to understand why molecules become left-
handed or right-handed, and that this choice is fascinatingly related to the
origin of life on earth. 243
If a coin always turns up heads when tossed a million times, is it more
logical to attribute that to chance, or else to accept that there is conscious
intervention going on? The answer should be obvious. However, obvious
though it may be, evolutionists still take refuge in coincidence, simply
because they do not want to accept the existence of conscious intervention.
A situation similar to the left-handedness of amino acids also exists

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