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fact in an article published in Earth magazine in 1998:

Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest
unsolved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth
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The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up
in such a great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even
those living organisms deemed to be the simplest have incredi-
bly complex structures. The cell of a living thing is more com-
plex than all of our man-made technological products. Today,
even in the most developed laboratories of the world, a living
cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chemicals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too
great in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The
probability of proteins, the building blocks of a cell, being syn-
thesized coincidentally, is 1 in 10 950 for an average protein made
up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability smaller
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than 1 over 10 is considered to be impossible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell
and which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank.
If the information 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 real-
ized only by the information coded in DNA. As they both de-
pend 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 repute from
the University of San Diego, California, confesses this fact in the

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