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following scientific opinion in a
book he wrote after testifying to
the miraculous structure of
DNA: "An honest man, armed
with all the knowledge
available to us now, could
only state that, in some sense,
the origin of life appears at the
moment to be almost a
miracle." 4 Even in Crick's view,
who was one of the biggest experts
on DNA, life could never originate on
Human cells contain 46 chromosomes, earth spontaneously.
in 23 pairs. Each pair is responsible for
When we consider the sensitive
certain activities in the body. Any
order and balances in the data inside
defect in the chromosome pairs results
in irreparable damage. DNA, it becomes even clearer how it
is impossible for them to have come
about by chance. The data in DNA, which is made up of 3 billion letters,
is composed of a special and meaningful sequence of the letters A-T-G-C.
However, not even a single letter should be misplaced in this sequence. A
misspelled word or a single letter error in an encyclopaedia may be
overlooked and ignored. It would not even be noticed. However, even a
single mistake in any base pair of DNA, such as a miscoded letter in the 1
billion 719 million 348 thousand 632nd base pair, would cause terrible
results for the cell, and therefore for the person himself. For instance,
haemophilia (leukaemia) is the outcome of such an erroneous coding.
There are several hereditary diseases that are caused by various disorders
in genetic make-up. The only reason for these potentially very threatening
diseases is that one or a few of the millions of letters in the genetic code
are in the wrong place. Mongolism, or Down's Syndrome, is quite
widespread. It is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in the
21st chromosome pair in every cell. Another example is Huntington's
Disease. The sufferer is quite healthy up to 35, but then uncontrollable

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