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the San Diego Scripps Institute
accepts this fact in an article pub-
lished in Earth magazine in 1998:
Today as we leave the twentieth
century, we still face the biggest
unsolved problem that we had
when we entered the twentieth
century: How did life originate
Stanley Miller
on Earth? 158

The Complex Structure of Life

The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a
great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even those living organ-
isms deemed to be the simplest have incredibly complex structures. The
cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our man-made technolog-
ical products. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of the
world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chemicals to-
gether.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of pro-
teins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is 1 in
10 950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics,
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a probability smaller than 1 over 10 is considered to be impossible in
practical terms.
The DNA molecule, 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 consist-
ing of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages
each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can replicate it-
self only with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes). However,
the synthesis of these enzymes can be realized only by the information

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