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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

ing blocks" in question are simple organic compounds such as
amino-acids or nucleic acids, and it is impossible for these to turn
into such complex structures as RNA or DNA. In just the same way,
the existence of bricks, the "building blocks" of a house, does not

mean that these actually came together by chance to make a house.
The NAS claims that many paths are known which might have
been followed to create the first cell. That claim is most definitely in-
correct. No scientist has found any means by which the first cell
could have been created from inanimate matter. Professor Klaus
Dose, director of the Johannes Gutenberg University Biochemistry
Institute, expresses the problem in these terms:
More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields
of chemical and molecular evolution have led to a better perception of
the immensity of the problem of the origin of life on earth rather than
to its solution. At present all discussions on principal theories and ex-
periments in the field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ig-
norance. New lines of thinking and experimentation must be tried…

The presence of all the materials necessary for the construction of a house is not enough for that con-
struction to actually take place. There is also a need for rational and intelligent architects, construc-
tion engineers, technicians, laborers, etc. The same thing applies to the construction of the cell.

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