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Harun Yahya

consider this:
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Ten billion years is 10 seconds. The earth weighs 10 ounces. The entire
universe has a diameter of only 10 28 inches. There are 10 80 elementary
(subatomic) particles in the universe. 95
When compared with the largest numbers in the universe, the im-
possibility of a single enzyme emerging by chance can clearly be seen.
No matter how impossible it may be, let us assume that amino
acids were able to assume the correct sequence and form an enzyme.
The possibility of that enzyme accelerating a reaction by becoming in-
volved in it—in other words, the probability of it being functional—
represents an even greater difficulty for evolutionists. Dr. Jonathan D.

Sarfati of the Creation Science Foundation has calculated that probabil-
ity as follows:
Even the simplest self-reproducing organism has 482 genes coding for en-
zymes about 400 amino acids long on average. Each enzyme must have a
precise sequence to function properly. There are 20 different types of
amino acid used in enzymes. Even if only 10 units had to be exactly right
in each enzyme, the chance of getting the full set by ordinary random
polymerisation reactions is one in 10 6271 (one followed by 6271 zeroes).
This is indeed effectively nil when one realizes that the number of atoms
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in the universe is only about 10 .
The probability of a single reaction coming about by chance is ze-
ro. Even if, despite all the impossibilities, we assume, that a single en-

zyme did come into existence by chance and happened to carry out a
reaction—no matter how impossible that is—the same impossibility
still applies to the genes needed to transmit the information coding for
that enzyme to subsequent generations. The impossibility of that hap-
pening by chance has been calculated too:
Evolutionists say that man evolved from a one-celled organism, purely
by chance. Yet it has been calculated that the probability of forming a sin-
gle protein molecule by chance is one in 10 243 (10 with 242 zeroes behind

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