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Local Pain, New York: Scribner, 1987, p. Mitochondria use a fixed number of en-
152-153 zymes during the process of breaking (with
82. Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny, p. 33 oxygen). The absence of only one of these
83. Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny, p. 35- enzymes stops the functioning of the whole
36 system. Besides, energy gain with oxygen
84. "Science Finds God", Newsweek, 27 does not seem to be a system which can
July 1998 proceed step by step. Only the complete
85. Fred Hoyle, Religion and the Scientists, system performs its function. That is why,
London: SCM, 1959; M. A. Corey, The instead of the step by step development to
Natural History of Creation, Maryland: which we have adhered so far as a princi-
University Press of America, 1995, p. 341 ple, we feel the urge to embrace the sug-
86. David Burnie, Life, Eyewitess Science, gestion that, all the enzymes (Krebs en-
London: Dorling Kindersley, 1996, p. 8 zyme) needed to perform the reactions of
87. Nevil V. Sidgwick, The Chemical the mitochondria entered a cell all at once
Elements and Their Compounds, vol 1. by coincidence or, were formed in that cell
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950, p. all at once. That is merely because those
490 systems failing to use oxygen fully, in other
88. Nevil V. Sidgwick, The Chemical words, those systems remaining in the inter-
Elements and Their Compounds, vol 1., p. mediate level would disappear as soon as
490 they react with oxygen." (Ali Demirsoy, The
89. J. B. S. Haldane, "The Origin of Life", Basic Laws of Life: General Zoology,
New Biology, 1954, vol. 16, p. 12 Volume 1, Section 1, Ankara, 1998, p.578)
90. Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny, p. While the probability of the formation of only
115-116 one of the enzymes (special proteins) Prof.
91. Lawrence Henderson, The Fitness of the Demirsoy mentions above, saying "we have
Environment, Boston: Beacon Press, 1958, to accept that they formed all of a sudden
p. 247-48 by coincidence" is 1 over 10950, it is cer-
92. L. L. Ingraham, "Enzymic Activation of tainly unreasonable to put forward that
Oxygen", Comprehensive Biochemistry, (ed. many enzymes of that sort formed by coin-
M. Florkin, E. H. Stotz), Amsterdam: cidence
Elsevier, vol. 14, p. 424 94. Nevil V. Sidgwick, The Chemical
93. The question of how the complicated Elements and Their Compounds, vol 1.
enzyme system enabling oxygen intake by Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950, p.
the respiratory system emerged is one of 490
the questions the theory of evolution fails to 95. Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny, p.
explain. This system has an irreducible 122-123
complexity, in other words, the system can 96. Irwin Fridovich, "Oxygen Radicals,
not function unless all of its components Hydrogen Peroxide, and Oxygen Toxicity",
function perfectly. For this reason, it is un- Free Radicals in Biology, (ed. W. A. Pryor),
likely to say that the system developed from New York: Academic Press, 1976, p. 239-
the simple form to the more complex, as 240
evolution suggests. Prof. Ali Demirsoy, a bi- 97. J. J. R. Fraústo da Silva, R. J. P.
ologist from Ankara Hacettepe University Williams, The Biological Chemistry of the
and a prominent advocate of the theory of Elements, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
evolution in Turkey, makes the following p. 3-4
confession about this subject: 98. J. J. R. Fraústo da Silva, R. J. P.
"However, there is a major problem here. Williams, The Biological Chemistry of the