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"How did the Genetic Code,
                 along with the mechanisms for its
                 translation (ribosomes and RNA
                 molecules), originate?" For the moment,
                 we will have to content ourselves with a
                 sense of wonder and awe, rather than with
                 an answer. 7
                 Another evolutionist authority, world renowned
            molecular biologist Leslie Orgel, is more outspoken on the subject:

                 It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of which
                 are structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same place at the same
                 time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one without the other. And so, at
                 first glance, ONE MIGHT HAVE TO CONCLUDE THAT LIFE COULD
                 NEVER, IN FACT, HAVE ORIGINATED BY CHEMICAL MEANS.      8
                 Saying "life could never have originated by chemical means" is the
            equivalent of saying that  "life could never have originated by itself."
            Recognition of the truth of this statement results in the realization that life
            is created in a conscious way. For ideological reasons, evolutionists,
            however, do not accept this fact, clear evidence of which is before their
            eyes. To avoid accepting the existence of God, they believe in nonsensical
            scenarios, despite their evident impossibility.
                 Another evolutionist, Caryl P. Haskins, states how the DNA code
            could not have emerged by chance, and that this fact is strong evidence
            for creation:
                 But the most sweeping evolutionary questions at the level of biochemical
                 genetics are still unanswered. How the genetic code first appeared and then
                 evolved and, earlier even than that, how life itself originated on earth
                 remain for the future to resolve.... Did the code and the means of translating
                 it appear simultaneously in evolution? It seems almost incredible that any
                 such coincidence could have occurred, given the extraordinary complexities
                 of both sides and the requirement that they be coordinated accurately for
                 survival. By a pre-Darwinian (or a skeptic of evolution after Darwin) this



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