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you were to print those symbols in a book in ordinary type, the
book for a bacterium would have about a thousand page. . . All this
information is in the tiny chromosomes of each cell. 14
Similarly, in his book Darwin Was Wrong, I.L. Cohen sets out
the inconsistencies and impossibilities in the theory of evolution,

and the impossibility of a bacterium's DNA coming into being by
chance:
Any species known to us, including the smallest single-cell bacteria,
have enormously larger number of nucleotides than 100 or 1,000. In

fact, single-cell bacteria display about 3.000.000 nucleotides, aligned
in a very specific sequence. This means that there is no mathemati-
cal probability whatever for any known species to have been the
product of a random occurrence or random mutations. 15
To replicate, bacteria employ various mechanisms. They may
multiply by dividing into two, by turning into spores or by replicat-
ing sexually. These different reproductive processes are another

proof of the bacteria's complex structure. Before the bacterium di-
vides, first it divides into a structure known as a chromatin. The
young bacteria make themselves ready to divide by reaching their
full size within 30 minutes. During replication, an intelligently cre-
ated system goes into operation, and the copying of the DNA that
takes place is another example of irreducible complexity: For the
THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE present at the same time. This totally undermines the basic claim of
system to function, all its components need to be fully formed and

the theory of evolution, the idea of chance and gradual develop-
ment. Recent research has revealed that this system is far more com-
plex than had previously been thought.
For example, it has been shown that one reaction-regulator

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