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isms deemed to be the simplest have outstandingly complex structures.
The cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our man-made tech-
nological products. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of
the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chemi-
cals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of pro-
teins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is
1 in 10 950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathe-
matics, a probability smaller than 1 over 10 is considered to be impos-
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sible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is a magnificent databank. If the infor-
mation coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant library
consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias consisting of 500
pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can replicate
itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes).
However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be realized only by the in-
formation coded in DNA. As they both depend on each other, they have
to exist at the same time for replication. This brings the scenario that life
originated by itself to a deadlock. Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evolutionist of re-
pute from the University of San Diego, California, confesses this fact in the
September 1994 issue of the Scientific American magazine:
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. 31
No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated spontaneous-
ly as a result of blind coincidences, then it has to be accepted that life was
"created." This fact explicitly invalidates the theory of evolution, whose
main purpose is to deny Creation.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)