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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
genes, each gene consisting
of up to 1,000 letters
(codes). This means that
the information in its DNA
must be at least 2-million
letters long. That, in turn,
means that the information
contained in the DNA of
just one bacterium is
equivalent to 20 novels of
1
100,000 words each. That
In this picture, magnified 15,000 times, can
being the case, it is quite
be seen the DNA molecule of a bacterium
which has been exposed to special inter- impossible for a single bac-
vention. There are 4 million base pairs in
terium to come about by
this bacterium's DNA, and if this DNA were
chance or to evolve as the
stretched out flat it would be 1.5 mm long,
or 1,000 times longer than the cell itself. result of chance effects.
Just the way in which such a complex
Any chance intervention to
structure is squeezed into such a re-
a structure containing in-
stricted space shows the fine detail in
God's art of creation. formation on such a scale
would damage the func-
tioning of the bacterium's entire system. A deficiency in a bac-
terium's genetic code would mean damage to the working system,
and therefore death.
Robert Shapiro, a professor of chemistry at New York
University, calculated the probability that all 2,000 of the different
types of proteins that it takes to make up even a simple bacterium
could have come into being completely by chance. According to
Shapiro, the probability is one in 10 40,000 2
. (That number is "1" fol-
lowed by forty thousand zeros and it has no equivalent in the uni-
verse.)
Chandra Wickramasinghe, a professor of applied mathematics
and astronomy at the University of Cardiff, commented on
Shapiro's result:
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