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                                                All information about living be-
                                                ings is stored in the DNA mole-
                                                  cule. This incredibly efficient
                                                   information storage method
                                                  alone is a clear evidence that
                                                 life did not come into being by
                                                chance, but has been purpose-
                                                  ly designed, or, better to say,
                                                        marvellously created.






              the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an article published in
              Earth magazine in 1998:

                   Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest unsolved
                   problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century: How did life
                   originate on Earth? 34




                   The Complex Structure of Life

                   The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a
              great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even those living organ-
              isms deemed to be the simplest have incredibly complex structures. The
              cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our man-made technolog-

              ical products. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of the world,
              a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chemicals together.

                   The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
              quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of pro-
              teins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is 1
              in 10 950  for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathe-

              matics, a probability smaller than 1 over 10 is considered to be impossi-
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