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600 muscles, a network of 10.000 auditory muscles, a network of 2 million optic
nerves, 100 billion nerve cells, and 100 trillion cells in the body.
Now let us think in the light of the above information: Since even a letter
cannot form without a writer writing it, how did billions of letters in the human
cell originate? How did these letters queue up in a meaningful sequence so as
to make up the unique plan of such a perfect and complex body? If there were
any break downs in the order of these letters you could have your ear on your
abdomen or your eyes in your heels. You could have born with your hands
stuck on your back, and lived as a freak. The secret of your living as a proper
human currently lies in the 'flawless' sequence of the billions of letters in the 46-
volume encyclopedia in your DNA.

DNA Challenges Coincidence
Today mathematics has proved that coincidence does not play a role in the
formation of the coded information within DNA, let alone the DNA molecule
made up of millions of base pairs. The probability of the coincidental formation
of even a single gene out of the 200,000 genes making up DNA is so low that
even the notion of impossible remains weak. Frank Salisbury, an evolutionist
biologist, makes the following statement about this 'impossibility':
A medium protein might include about 300 amino acids. The DNA gene con-
t rolling this would have about 1,000 nucleotides in its chain. Since there are
four kinds of nucleotides in a DNA chain, one consisting of 1,000 links could
exist in 4 1 0 0 0 forms. Using a little algebra (logarithms) we can see that
4 1 0 0 0 = 1 0 6 0 0 . Ten multiplied by itself 600 times gives the figure 1 followed by
600 zeros! This number is completely beyond our compre h e n s i o n . 2
That is to say that even if we assume that all the necessary nucleotides are
present in a medium, and that all the complex molecules and enzymes to com-
bine them were available, the possibility of the these nucleotides being arranged
in the desired sequence is 1 in 4 1000 , in other words, 1 in 10 600 . Briefly, the
probability of the coincidental formation of the code of an average protein in the
human body in DNA by itself is 1 in 1 followed by 600 zeros. This number,

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