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he used was unrealistic. 9
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 un-
solved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century:
How did life originate on Earth? 10

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 simplest have outstandingly complex structures. The cell
of a living thing is more complex 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 chemi-
cals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in quan-
tity to be explained away by coincidences. 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 mathematics, a proba-
bility 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 a magnificent databank. If the information cod-
ed 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 replicate it-
self only with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes). However,
the synthesis of these enzymes can be realized only by the information cod-
ed in DNA. As they both depend on each other, they have to exist at the
same time for replication. This brings the scenario that life originated by it-

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