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All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth cen-
tury to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geoche-
mist Jeffrey Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts
this 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
century: How did life originate on Earth? 42

The Complex Structure of Life

The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in
such a great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even tho-
se living organisms deemed to be the simplest have outstan-
dingly 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 toget-
her.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too gre-
at in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The proba-
bility of proteins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthe-
sized coincidentally, is 1 in 10 950 for an average protein made
up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability smaller
than 1 over 10 is considered to be impossible in practical
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terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell
and which stores genetic information, is magnificent 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