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in the primordial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding
energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized several organic molecules (amino
acids) present in the structure of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was
revealed that this experiment, which was then
presented as an important step in the name of
evolution, was invalid, for the atmosphere used in
the experiment was very different from the real
Earth conditions. 55
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the
atmosphere medium he used was unrealistic. 56
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the
twentieth century to explain the origin of life
ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey Bada, from Alexander Oparin
the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an
article published in Earth magazine in 1998:
Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest unsolved
problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century: How did life
originate on Earth? 57
The Complex Structure of Life
The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a great
impasse regarding the origin of life is that even those living organisms deemed
to be the simplest have incredibly complex structures. The cell of a living thing
is more complex than all of our man-made technological 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 proteins, 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 mathematics, a probability smaller than
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1 over 10 is considered to be impossible 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 information 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.
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