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Biomimetics: Technology Imitates Nature

which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the in-
formation coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant li-
brary consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias consist-
ing of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can repli-
cate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes).
However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be realized only by the in-
formation coded 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 itself to a deadlock. 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. 142
No doubt, if it is
impossible for life to

have originated from
natural causes, then it
has to be accepted
that life was "created"
in a supernatural
way. This fact explic-
itly invalidates the
theory of evolution,
whose main purpose
is to deny creation.

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