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According to the RNA World
hypothesis, ribosomes
need to form at the same
time as RNA, because
RNA requires ribosomes,
a protein-manufacturing
mechanism. However, ri-
bosomes are exceed-
ingly complex
organelles consisting
of complex proteins.
It is impossible to
account for the ori-
gin of ribosomes in
terms of chemical
reactions.

son, this situation involves a series of impossible as-

sumptions, such as the ribosome's coincidentally com-
ing into existence at the same time. Even the Nobel
prize-winning Jacques Monod, one of the best-known proponents of the
theory of evolution, explained that protein synthesis can by no means be
considered to depend merely on the information in the nucleic acids:
The code is meaningless unless translated. The modern cell's trans-
lating machinery consists of at least 50 macromolecular compo-
nents, which are themselves coded in DNA: the code cannot be
translated otherwise than by products of translation themselves. It
is the modern expression of omne vivum ex ovo. When and how did
this circle become closed? It is exceedingly difficult to imagine. 7

By what means could an RNA chain in the primitive atmosphere
have taken such a decision, and what methods could it have em-
ployed to carry out protein production and perform the functions of
50 special components? Evolutionists have no answer to this ques-
tion. One article in the well-known scientific journal Nature stated
that the concept of "self-replicating RNA" was a totally imaginary
one, and that no such RNA had ever been produced under experi-

mental conditions:

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