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Adnan Oktar

of these bonds keeps them from breaking.

It is only the enzyme's "shape"
that determines whether it's a
blood-clotting enzyme or one that is
involved in digestion. But how did
any enzyme come to possess its
highly specialized form? Out of mil-
lions of possibilities, how is it that en-
zymes always assume the correct
shape? If evolutionists maintain that
the first enzyme or the first gene that
formed it appeared on Earth sponta- It would take 20 billion years for a
single enzyme molecule consisting
neously and by chance, then they are of 100 amino acids to try all the dif-
forced to explain the development of ferent possible combinations and
find the correct shape. That is longer
all of an enzyme's complex details, as than the age of the universe.

well as the three-dimensional form
that determines its properties. In addition, they must account for the
special abilities of the genes responsible for encoding this. If the special
form in the very first enzyme came about by coincidence, through trial
and error—impossible, though assuming that it actually did happen—
then a simple calculation reveals that for a single enzyme molecule con-
sisting of 100 amino acids to test out all the different possible permuta-
tions would take 20 billion years —a much greater time frame than the
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age of the universe itself!
And that probability emerges only if we imagine that amino acids
are consciously able to employ the method of trial and error. Yet it is
completely impossible for amino acids to combine without any con-
scious method, to form a small enzyme molecule consisting of 100
amino acids. Therefore, evolutionists are totally unable to account for
the formation of an enzyme and its particular three-dimensional form.
Duane T. Gish, director of the Institute of Creation Research, ex-
plains this impossibility:

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