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BASIC TENETS OF ISLAM

3. DNA manufactures the protein-synthesizing enzymes.
Protein cannot be synthesized without DNA. DNA is therefore
also needed in order for proteins to form.
4. All the organelles in the cell have important tasks in
protein synthesis. In other words, in order for proteins to form a

perfect and fully functioning cell needs to exist together with all
its organelles.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is a magnificent databank. If the
information coded 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 itself only with the help of some specialized proteins
(enzymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be
realized only by the information 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

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