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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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