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The Deception Of Evolution

duced 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 proteins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coinci-
dentally, 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 con-
sidered to be impossible in practical terms.
The DNAmolecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the
information coded in DNA were written down, it would make a
giant library consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclope-
dias 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 (en-
zymes). 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 to
conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated by chem-
ical means. 6
No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated from nat-
ural causes, then it has to be accepted that life was "created" in a su-
pernatural way. This fact explicitly invalidates the theory of
evolution, whose main purpose is to deny creation. 77