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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

The information and requisite raw materials for the protein to be pro-
duced are now ready. Yet first, there is another problem to be overcome. As
we have already seen, the production data—the order, in other words—is
written in a special language in the DNA. Production must take place ac-
cording to the data written in that language. However, the strings of amino
acids to be used as raw materials are “written” in another language.
The problem may be better described thus; the written instruction in
the order form is in the language of the code comprising the DNA—that
special “language” consisting of four letters. The proteins to be produced
are communicated in a different language, with a 20-letter alphabet (be-
cause there are 20 varieties of amino acid comprising proteins). Thus, the
production information coming from the DNA is not in any language the
amino acids can decipher. As a result, in order for the amino acids to un-
derstand which information from the DNA is referring to, they must trans-
late the DNA language.
In order for life to continue, the ribosome factory has been equipped
with a mechanism that resolves this problem in a most perfect manner. A
system has been created that translates between the two different lan-
guages used during production in the ribosome. This translation system,
known as the codon-anticodon method, works in a manner far superior to
even the most advanced computer centers. Just like an interpreter expert in
two different languages, it turns the protein information written in the
DNA language (consisting of four letters) into the protein language (con-
sisting of 20), stating which amino acids are to be laid out alongside one an-
other. As a result, the desired protein is accurately produced.
Worthy of particular note is the absence of any error in this translation
process. There is only room for one or two errors in the production of the
thousands of proteins necessary for the survival of the cell, and thus of the
living things. No man-made technological apparatus nor the most careful
and expert human beings could translate and write a text such as a pro-
tein—the equivalent to 200 novels—in such a flawless, perfect manner. 25
However, these molecules, which behave under the control of God at all
times, do everything to the letter. To rational believers, all these are mani-
festations of God’s miracles.

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