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oc cur if or gan ic sub stan ces com bine
to geth er, is to tal ly un sci en tif ic.
Science man i fests the fact that Allah
has flaw less ly cre at ed liv ing things.

PROTEIN
Proteins are gi ant mol e cu les con sist ing of
Proteins are gi ant mol e cu les con -
spe cif ic num bers and types of small er mol -
sist ing of spe cif ic num bers and types e cu les, known as ami no ac ids, set out in
of small er mol e cu les, known as ami - par tic u lar se quen ces. This struc ture of the
pro tein is a big dead lock for ev o lu tion ists.
no ac ids, set out in par tic u lar se quen -
ces. The sim plest pro teins con sist of
av er age-sized pro tein mol e cule, may
around 50 ami no ac ids, while oth ers
be set out in 10 300 ways. (This is the
may con tain thou sands.
as tro nom i cal fig ure of 1 fol lowed by
The ab sence of even a sin gle ami -
300 ze ros.) However, on ly one of all
no ac id in the pro tein struc ture or
these se quen ces can gives rise to the
one ami no ac id chang ing place, or
pro tein. All the re main ing se quen ces
the ad di tion of one ami no ac id too
are mean ing less strings of ami no ac -
many to the chain will make that
ids that are ei ther use less, or may
pro tein a use less col lec tion of mol e -
even be harm ful.
cu les. For that rea son, ev ery ami no
Therefore, the chan ces of just the
ac id must be in ex act ly the right
"right" pro tein mol e cule form ing by
place and in ex act ly the right or der.
300
chance are 1 in 10 . In prac ti cal
The the o ry of ev o lu tion, how e ver,
terms, this can not hap pen. (In math -
sug gests that life came in to be ing by
e mat ics, any prob a bil i ty small er
chance. In the face of this reg u lar i ty,
than 10 is re gard ed as ze ro prob a -
50
it's in a hope less po si tion. So ex traor -
bil i ty.)
di na ry is this reg u lar i ty that it can -
Moreover, a pro tein con sist ing of
not pos si bly be ex plained in terms of
288 ami no ac ids can be re gard ed as a
chance. Simple prob a bil i ty cal cu la -
rath er hum ble struc ture, com pared
tions eas i ly show that pro teins' func -
with gi ant pro teins con sist ing of
tion al struc ture can nev er come in to
thou sands of ami no ac ids found in
be ing as the re sult of co in ci den ces.
many liv ing things. When the same
For in stance, the 288 ami no ac ids
prob a bil i ty cal cu la tions are ap plied
of 12 dif fer ent kinds con tained in an
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