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Adnan Oktar

enzyme for catalyzing the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide. This en-
zyme, catalase, has a turnover rate of several billion per minute. Because
of the high toxicity of hydrogen peroxide, our cells require an exceeding-

ly efficient enzyme to catalyze its decomposition. We certainly couldn't
survive without this enzyme. 41
But what would happen if enzymes could not accelerate reactions
that quickly? Would it be enough for them to carry out in, say, 100 years
a reaction that in their absence would last 10,000 years in their absence?
Would they be of any use to us if they performed their tasks in 10 years
instead of a century? Leaving aside years, months and hours, could we
stay alive if a single reaction lasted just 10 minutes?

In fact, an interruption of just a millisecond—let alone one of 10
minutes' duration—in the phase of the catalysis would be enough to
impede the function in question. For example, if the enzyme catalase
operated at the speed of the DNA polymerase enzyme, this would let
all the hydrogen peroxide molecules escape to spread to the nearby
cells, thus leading to their death.
The enormous time difference involved between the absence and
presence of enzymes makes clear just what an important task these cru-
cial proteins undertake. This phenomenon is far too extraordinary to
permit any hint of coincidence. Indeed, it is even impossible for even a
conscious human being to design and implement so complex a system.
A great many other details need to be considered here. How is it

that every enzyme has a different accelerative force? How do enzymes
know that they must carry out every reaction at a different speed? It is
impossible for enzymes to know on their own, what purpose a given
reaction serves and determine how quickly they need to accelerate it,
and equally impossible for them to communicate that speed to other
enzymes. It is wholly impossible for them to acquire all these charac-
teristics by chance. Coincidence is supposed to be an event that takes
place unconsciously and due to random influences, and any chance im-

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