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THE EVOLUTION MISCONCEPTION

twentieth century to explain the origin of life ended with
failure. The geochemist Jeffrey Bada from 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 unsolved problem that we had when we entered the
twentieth century: How did life originate on Earth? 6

The Complex Structure of Life

The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended
up in such a big impasse about the origin of life is that even
the living organisms deemed the simplest have incredibly
complex structures. The cell of a living being is more com-
plex than all of the technological products produced by man.
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 quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The
probability of proteins, the building blocks of cell, being syn-
thesized coincidentally, is 1 in 10 950 for an average protein
made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability
smaller than 1 over 10 50 is practically considered to be im-
possible.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of the
cell and which stores genetic information, is an incredible
databank. It is calculated that if the information coded in
DNA were written down, this would make a giant library
consisting of 900 volumes of encyclopaedias of 500 pages
each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: the
DNA can only replicate with the help of some specialized