Page 139 - Consciousness in the Cell

HARUN YAHYA
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 comp-
lex structures. The cell of a living thing is more complex than all of
our man-made technological products. Today, even in the most de-
veloped 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 gre-
at in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probabi-
lity 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 1 over 10 50
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 encyclo-
pedias consisting of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can
replicate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins
(enzymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be reali-
zed only 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.
Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evolutionist of repute from the University of
San Diego, California, confesses this fact in the September 1994 is-
sue of the Scientific American magazine:
It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both
of which are structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the sa-
me place at the same time. Yet it also seems impossible to have
one without the other. And so, at first glance, one might have to
conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated by chemi-

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