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SIGNS OF THE END TIMES IN SURAT AL-KAHF

cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our man-made technolog-
ical products. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of the
world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chemicals
together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of pro-
teins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is
1 in 10 950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathe-
matics, a probability smaller than 1 over 10 50 is considered to be impos-
sible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the infor-
mation coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant library
consisting of an estimated 900 volumes 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 proteins (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

All information about living
beings is stored in the DNA
molecule. This incredibly
efficient information stor-
age method alone is a clear
evidence that life did not
come into being by chance,
but has been purposely de-
signed, or, better to say,
marvellously created.

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