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The correct sequence of proper amino acids is simply not enough for
the formation of one of the protein molecules present in living things.
Besides this, each of the twenty different types of amino acid present in
the composition of proteins must be left-handed. Chemically, there are
two different types of amino acids called "left-handed" and "right-hand-
ed". The difference between them is the mirror-symmetry between their
three dimensional structures, which is similar to that of a person's right
and left hands. Amino acids of either of these two types are found in
equal numbers in nature and they can bond perfectly well with one an-
other. Yet, research uncovers an astonishing fact: all proteins present in
the structure of living things are made up of left-handed amino acids.
Even a single right-handed amino acid attached to the structure of a pro-
tein renders it useless.
Let us for an instant suppose that life came into existence by chance
as evolutionists claim. In this case, the right and left-handed amino acids
that were generated by chance should be present in nature in roughly
equal amounts. The question of how proteins can pick out only left-
handed amino acids, and how not even a single right-handed amino
acid becomes involved in the life process is something that still con-
founds evolutionists. In the Britannica Science Encyclopaedia, an ardent
defender of evolution, the authors indicate that the amino acids of all liv-
ing organisms on earth and the building blocks of complex polymers
such as proteins have the same left-handed asymmetry. They add that
this is tantamount to tossing a coin a million times and always getting
heads. In the same encyclopaedia, they state that it is not possible to un-
derstand why molecules become left-handed or right-handed and that
this choice is fascinatingly related to the source of life on earth. 102
It is not enough for amino acids to be arranged in the correct num-
bers, sequences, and in the required three-dimensional structures. The
formation of a protein also requires that amino acid molecules with
more than one arm be linked to each other only through certain arms.
Such a bond is called a "peptide bond". Amino acids can make different
bonds with each other; but proteins comprise those and only those
amino acids that join together by "peptide" bonds.
Research has shown that only 50 % of amino acids, combining at ran-
dom, combine with a peptide bond and that the rest combine with dif-

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