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developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be produced

by bringing inanimate materials 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 protein made up of 500 amino acids. In

mathematics a probability smaller than 1 over 1050 is for all practical

purposes considered impossible.

The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and

which stores genetic information, is an incredible data-bank. It is

calculated that if the information coded in DNA were written down, it

would make a giant library consisting of 900 volumes of encyclopedias

of 500 pages each.

A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: the DNA can

only replicate with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes).

However, the synthesis of these enzymes can only be realized 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. Professor Leslie Orgel, an

evolutionist of repute from the University of San Diego, California,

confesses this fact in the October, 1994 issue of the Scientific

American magazine:

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