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sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to
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be almost a miracle." Even in Crick's view, who
was one of the biggest experts on DNA, life
could never originate on earth spontaneously.
The data in DNA, which is made up of 5 bil-
lion letters, is composed of a special and mean-
ingful sequence of letters A-T-G-C. However, not
even a single letter error should be made in this
sequence. A misspelled word or a letter error in
Francis Crick
an encyclopedia may be overlooked and ignored.
It would not even be noticed. However, even a single mistake in any base pair
of DNA, such as a miscoded letter in the 1 billion 719 million 348 thousand
632 nd base pair, would cause terrible results for the cell, and therefore for the
person himself. For instance, haemophilia (child leukemia) is the outcome of
such an erroneous coding.
In truth, it would be incorrect to call this "erroneous coding", because like
every other thing that exists, the human DNA, too, is created by God and even
the seldom occurring mistakes come about with respect to a hidden cause
(divine purpose). The coding mistake which causes cancer is a specially created
disorder. It is created specially for a certain hidden cause to show man his own
weakness and impotence, remind him of the delicate balances man's creation
depends on, and of what kind of troubles he may face in case of the slightest dis-
turbance in these balances.

Self-Replication of DNA
As known, cells multiply by dividing. While the human body is initially
composed of a single cell, this cell divides and reproduces by folds with a ratio
of 2-4-8-16-32...
What happens to DNAat the end of this dividing process? There is only one
DNAchain in the cell. However, it is evident that the newly formed cell will also
require a DNA. In order to fill this gap, DNAcompletes an interesting series of
operations, every phase of which is a different miracle. Finally, soon before the

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