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genes are set out in a very complicated order. In the fundamental genetic
hierarchy there are genes charged with carrying out functions that are
repeated: making haemoglobin, hair growth, or the production of
digestive enzymes for instance. There are "ordering" genes placed over
these worker molecules. These make the worker molecules work, and also
stop them from doing so. For example, they stop the haemoglobin gene
from functioning during childhood. There is a series of "main controls"
over both the workers and "middle management." Their decisions affect
dozens, even hundreds of sub-units. These genes are so vital that it can be
fatal if they are damaged during the embryo stage.
That is a fact that requires careful consideration. Genes are molecules
made up of atoms. So, how did these molecules set up such an ordered
organization amongst themselves? How is it that a molecule can take the
decision to halt someone's growth and relay that decision to other genes,
so that they may receive, obey and implement it? Who set up that
discipline? Furthermore, trillions of genes have been flawlessly carrying
out the same functions for millions of years, with the same discipline,
obedience, intelligence and consciousness.
To claim that such a system emerged by coincidence is utterly
specious. There is no doubt that it is God, the Lord, who programs the
genes so cleverly and perfectly.
DNA Challenges Coincidence
Today mathematics has proved that coincidence does not play a role
in the formation of the coded information within DNA. Let alone the
DNA molecule made up of millions of base pairs, the probability of the
coincidental formation of even a single gene out of the 200,000 genes
making up DNA is so low that even the word "impossible" hardly
expresses it. Frank Salisbury, an evolutionist biologist, makes the
following statement about this "impossibility:"
Amedium protein might include about 300 amino acids. The DNA gene
controlling this would have about 1,000 nucleotides in its chain. Since there
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