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Engineering in Nature

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 co-
incidentally, is 1 in 10 950 for an average protein
made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics,
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a probability smaller than 1 over 10 is con-
sidered to be impossible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the
nucleus of a cell and which stores genetic infor-
mation, is an incredible databank. If the informa-
tion coded in DNA were written down, it would
make a giant library consisting of an estimated 900 Alexander Oparin
volumes of encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages
each.

One of the evolutionists' gravest deceptions is the way they imagine that life could
have emerged spontaneously on what they refer to as the primitive earth, repre-
sented in the picture above. They tried to prove these claims with such studies as the
Miller experiment. Yet they again suffered defeat in the face of the scientific facts: The
results obtained in the 1970s proved that the atmosphere on what they describe as
the primitive earth was totally unsuited to life.

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