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The NAS's Error Regarding the Origin of Life

Like the evolutionists' other scenarios, the
RNA World hypothesis is a long way from
bringing an evolutionary explanation to
bear on the origin of life. Unable
to explain how DNA could
have come into being
on its own, evolu-
tionists face the
same question with
regard to RNA.

Cech, billions of years ago an RNA molecule somehow capable of
replicating itself happened to come into existence. Under the influ-
ence of the environmental conditions surrounding it, this RNA mole-
cule suddenly began to produce proteins. Later still, the need arose to
store their information in a second molecule, and the DNA molecule
somehow came into being.
This scenario, which is hard even to imagine and which consists

of a chain of impossible events, enlarged the dimension of the prob-
lem instead of explaining the origin of life, and gave rise to a number
of unanswerable questions. Some of these questions are:
1 – Whilst it is impossible to account for the emergence of even a
single one of the nucleotides which comprise RNA, how did fictitious
nucleotides manage to come together in an appropriate sequence to
form RNA? The evolutionist biologist John Horgan admits the impos-
sibility of RNA's having come into existence by chance:

As researchers continue to examine the RNA-World concept closely,
more problems emerge. How did RNA initially arise? RNA and its
components are difficult to synthesize in a laboratory under the best

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