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Adnan Oktar

the passage of time. Not only is the gene itself a problem: think of the sys-
tem that would have to come into being to produce a living cell! It's nice
to talk about replicating DNA molecules arising in a soupy sea, but in
modern cells this replication requires the presence of suitable enzymes.
Furthermore, DNA by itself accomplishes nothing. Its only reason for ex-
istence is the information that it carries and that is used in the production
of a protein enzyme. At the moment, the link between DNA and the en-
zyme is a highly complex one, involving RNA and an enzyme for its syn-
thesis on a DNA template; ribosomes; enzymes to activate the amino
acids; and transfer-RNA molecules… It's as though everything must hap-

pen at once: the entire system must come into being as one unit, or it is
worthless. There may well be ways out of this dilemma, but I don't see
them at the moment. 75
Duane T. Gish, president of the Institute of Creation Research, al-
so states that there can be no evolutionary history when it comes to the
subject of DNA and DNA enzymes:
As a matter of fact, even though the many metabolic activities found
within a living cell are absolutely indispensable for its existence, and
these activities are in turn almost totally dependent upon enzymes, the
existence of enzymes before living things existed would have been disas-
trous. Let us suppose that a proteolytic enzyme [protease], that is, an en-
zyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis or breakdown of protein, somehow
arose in the hypothetical "primordial soup" of the primeval world. Its ori-
gin would have been totally disastrous, for it would have happily set
about catalyzing the rapid destruction of all protein in sight, and soon
there would be no protein left. Similarly, RNases [ribonuclease] would
destroy all the RNA, DNases would breakdown all the DNA, deaminas-
es would deaminate all amines, decarboxylases would decarboxylate all
carboxylic acids, etc. How could such substances be "selected for" when
their presence outside of the regulated environment of a living cell would
have been destructive?
By no stretch of the imagination, then, could natural selection have had

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