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Harun Yahya

anything to do with the origin of life. ... the origin of life by naturalistic,
mechanistic process is totally impossible. 76

Despite his being an evolutionist, Caryl P. Haskins, director of the
Washington Carnegie Institute, openly admits that it is impossible for
these two interdependent complex systems to have evolved by chance:
But the most sweeping evolutionary questions at the level of biochemical
genetics are still unanswered. How the genetic code first appeared and

then evolved and, earlier than that, how life itself originated on earth re-
main for the future to resolve . . . The fact that in all organisms living to-
day the processes both of replication of the DNA and of the effective
translation of its code require highly precise enzymes and that, at the
same time the molecular structures of those same enzymes are precisely
specified by the DNA itself, poses a remarkable evolutionary mystery . . .
Did the code and the means of translating it appear simultaneously in
evolution? It seems almost incredible that any such coincidence could
have occurred, given the extraordinary complexities of both sides and the
requirement that they be coordinated accurately for survival. By a pre-
Darwinian this puzzle would surely have been interpreted as the most
powerful sort of evidence for special creation. 77
Two complex structures are under discussion here. Evolutionists
have not been able to explain the formation of enzymes, much less how
the amino acids comprising an enzyme combined in the correct se-
quence to produce a protein. They have not even attempted to address
the issue of DNA's origin. The fact that these two complex structures

behave in such a way as to remind us of the question of the chicken and
the egg—the way the one is responsible for the production of the oth-
er—represents a major difficulty placed at evolutionists' door by scien-
tific progress.
This is actually one of the finest lessons that the science of micro-
biology can give evolutionists, who seek to offer an explanation other
than creation for all the complex systems they encounter, and who pro-

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