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Harvard chemist George Whitesides made the following confession
in his acceptance speech of the Priestley Medal, the highest award of the
American Chemical Society:
The Origin of Life. This problem is one of the big ones in science. ... Most
chemists believe, as do I, that life emerged spontaneously from mixtures of
molecules in the prebiotic Earth. How? I have no idea. (George M. Whitesides,
“Revolutions In Chemistry: Priestley Medalist George M. Whitesides’
Address”, Chemical and Engineering News, 85: 12-17, March 26, 2007)
The DNA molecule, located in the nucleus of a cell and which stores
genetic information, is a magnificent databank. If the information coded
in DNA were transcribed on paper, it would make a giant library con-
sisting of an estimated 900 volumes of 500 pages each.
A very interesting insurmountable predicament emerges at this
point for the evolutionists: 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 information coded in DNA. As they
both depend on each other, they must exist at the same time for replica-
tion. This razes the scenario where life originated by itself to the ground.
Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evolutionist of repute 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 originat-
ed by chemical means. (Leslie E. Orgel, “The Origin of Life on Earth,”
Scientific American, vol. 271, October 1994, p. 78.)
No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated spontaneous-
ly through blind coincidence, then it must be accepted that life was cre-
ated. This fact explicitly invalidates the theory of evolution, whose main
purpose is to deny creation.