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cell and which stores genetic information, is an incredible data-
bank. If the information coded in DNA were written down, it
would make a giant library consisting of an estimated 900 vol-
umes of encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA
can replicate itself only with the help of some specialized pro-
teins (enzymes). 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 sponta-
neously 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 chemical means. 6

No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated
from natural causes, then it has to be accepted that life was
"created" in a supernatural way. This fact explicitly invalidates
the theory of evolution, whose main purpose is to deny cre-
ation.

Imaginary Mechanism of Evolution

The second important point that negates Darwin's theory
is that both concepts put forward by the theory as "evolution-

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