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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

The Invalidity of the RNA World
The discovery in the 1970s that the gases originally existing in the
primitive atmosphere of the earth would have rendered amino acid
synthesis impossible was a serious blow to the theory of molecular
evolution. Evolutionists then had to face the fact that the "primitive
atmosphere experiments" by Stanley Miller, Sydney Fox, Cyril
Ponnamperuma and others were invalid. For this reason, in the 1980s the
evolutionists tried again. As a result, the "RNA World" hypothesis was
advanced. This scenario proposed that, not proteins, but rather the RNA
molecules that contained the information for proteins, were formed first.
According to this scenario, advanced by Harvard chemist Walter
Gilbert in 1986, inspired by the discovery about "ribozymes" by Thomas
Cech, billions of years ago an RNA molecule capable of replicating itself
formed somehow by accident. Then this RNA molecule started to produce
proteins, having been activated by external influences. Thereafter, it
became necessary to store this information in a second molecule, and
somehow the DNA molecule emerged to do that.
Made up as it is of a chain of impossibilities in each and every stage,
this scarcely credible scenario, far from providing any explanation of the
origin of life, only magnified the problem, and raised many unanswerable
questions:
1. Since it is impossible to accept the coincidental formation of even
one of the nucleotides making up RNA, how can it be possible for these
imaginary nucleotides to form RNA by coming together in a particular
sequence? Evolutionist John Horgan admits the impossibility of the
chance formation of RNA;

As researchers continue to examine the RNA-World concept closely, more
problems emerge. How did RNA initially arise? RNA and its components
are difficult to synthesize in a laboratory under the best of conditions, much
less under really plausible ones. 267
2. Even if we suppose that it formed by chance, how could this RNA,
consisting of just a nucleotide chain, have "decided" to self-replicate, and
with what kind of mechanism could it have carried out this self-replicating
process? Where did it find the nucleotides it used while self-replicating?
Even evolutionist microbiologists Gerald Joyce and Leslie Orgel express
the desperate nature of the situtation in their book In the RNA World:

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