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phere medium he used was unrealistic. 4
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth
century to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The
geochemist 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? 5

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 those living organisms deemed to be the sim-
plest have incredibly complex structures. The cell of a liv-
ing 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 chemicals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are
too great in quantity to be explained away by coinci-
dences. The probability of proteins, 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 50 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