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themselves coded in DNA: the code cannot
be translated otherwise than by products of
translation . It is the modern expression of
omne vivum ex ovo. When and how did this
circle become closed? It is exceedingly diffi -
cult to imagine. 10
How could an RNA chain in the primordial
world take such a decision and what methods
could it have employed to realize protein pro-
duction by undertaking the job of fifty special-
ized particles only on its own? Evolutionists Dr. Leslie Orgel
have no answer to these questions.
Dr. Leslie Orgel, one of the associates of Stanley Miller and Francis Crick
from the University of San Diego California, uses the term "scenario" for the
possibility of "the origination of life through the RNA world". Orgel described
what kind of features this RNAhad to have and how impossible this was in her
article titled "The Origin of Life"published in American Scientistin October 1994:
This scenario could have occured, we noted, if prebiotic RNAhad two prop-
erties not evident today : A capacity to replicate without the help of pro -
teins and an ability to catalyze every step of protein synthesis. 11
As should be clear, to expect these two complex and extremely essential
processes from a molecule like RNA is only possible by an evolutionist's power
of imagination and viewpoint. Concrete scientific facts, on the other hand, make
it explicit that the thesis of the "RNA World", which is a new model proposed
for the chance formation of life, is an equally implausible fable.
Life is a Concept Beyond Mere Heaps of Molecules
Let us forget all the impossibilities for a moment and suppose that a protein
molecule was formed in the most inappropriate, most uncontrolled environ-
ment such as the primordial earth conditions. The formation of only one protein
would not be sufficient; this protein would have to wait patiently for thousands,
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