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After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium
he used was unrealistic. 4
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century to ex-
plain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey Bada,
from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an article pub-
lished 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? 5

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 or-
ganisms deemed to be the simplest have incredibly 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
chemicals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of pro-
teins, 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 math-
ematics, a probability smaller than 1 over 10 50 is considered to be im-
possible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the infor-
mation 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.

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