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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? 5

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 prod-
ucts. 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 10950 for an average pro-
tein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probabil-
ity smaller than 1 over 1050 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 estimat-
ed 900 volumes of encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages
each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA