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been activated by external influences. Thereafter, it became necessary to
store this information in a second molecule, and somehow the DNA
molecule emerged to do that.
Made up of a chain of impossibilities in each and every stage, this
scarcely credible scenario, far from providing any explanation of the
origin of life, only magnified the problem and raised many unanswerable
questions:
1. Since it is impossible to explain the coincidental formation of even
one of the nucleotides making up RNA, how can it be possible for these
imaginary nucleotides to form RNA by coming together in a particular
sequence? Evolutionist John Horgan admits the impossibility of the
chance formation of RNA:
As researchers continue to examine the RNA-world concept closely, more
problems emerge. How did RNA initially arise? RNA and its components
are difficult to synthesize in a laboratory under the best of conditions, much
less under really plausible ones. 11
2. Even if we suppose that it formed by chance, how could this RNA
consisting of just a nucleotide chain have "decided" to self-replicate and
with what kind of a mechanism could it have carried out this self-
replicating process? Where did it find the nucleotides it used while self-
replicating? Even evolutionist microbiologists Gerald Joyce and Leslie
Orgel express the desperateness of the situation in their book titled In the
RNA World:
This discussion... has, in a sense, focused on a straw man: the myth of a
self-replicating RNA molecule that arose de novo from a soup of random
polynucleotides. Not only is such a notion unrealistic in light of our current
understanding of prebiotic chemistry, but it would strain the credulity of
even an optimist's view of RNA's catalytic potential. 12
3. Even if we suppose that there was self-replicating RNA in the
primordial world, that numerous amino acids of every type ready to be
used by RNA were available and that all of these impossibilities somehow
took place, the situation still does not lead to the formation of even one
single protein. For RNA only includes information concerning the

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