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1. When it is impossible to explain the coincidental formation of even one of
the nucleotides making up RNA, how can it be possible for these imaginary
nucleotides to form RNA by coming together in a proper sequence?
Evolutionist biologist John Horgan admits the impossibility of the chance for-
mation of RNAas follows;
As researchers continue to examine the RNA-world concept closely, more
problems emerge. How did RNA arise initially? RNA and its components
are difficult to synthesize in a laboratory under the best of conditions, much
less under plausible ones. 8
2. Even if we suppose that it formed by chance, how could this RNA made
up of simply a nucleotide chain have "decided" to self-replicate and with what
kind of a mechanism could it have carried out this self-replicating process?
Where did it find the nucleotides it used while self-replicating? Even evolu-
tionist microbiologists Gerald Joyce and Leslie Orgel express the desperateness
of the situation in their book titled "In the RNA World":
This discussion... has, in a sense, focused on a straw man: the myth of a self-
replicating RNA molecule that arose de novo from a soup of random
polynucleotides. Not only is such a notion unrealistic in light of our current
understanding of prebiotic chemistry, but it should strain the credulity of
even an optimist's view of RNA's catalytic potential. 9
3. Even if we suppose that there was a self-replicating RNA in the primor-
dial world, that numerous amino acids of every type ready to be used by RNA
were available and that all of these impossibilities somehow took place, the sit-
uation still does not lead to the formation of even a single protein. For RNAonly
includes information concerning the structure of proteins. Amino acids, on the
other hand, are raw materials. Nevertheless, no mechanism exists to produce
proteins. To consider the existence of RNA sufficient for protein production is
as nonsensical as expecting a car to be self-assembled and self-manufactured by
simply throwing its design drawn on paper on thousands of its parts piled
upon each other. In this case, too, production is out of the question since no fac-
tory or workers are involved in the process.
HARUN YAHYA
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