Page 209 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

Harun Yahya

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? 94

The Complex Structure of Life
The primary reason why the theory of evolu-
tion ended up in such a great impasse regarding
the origin of life is that even those living organ- Evolutionist
Magazine Earth
isms 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 products. Today, even in the most developed
laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing or-
ganic 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 pro-
teins, 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 is considered to be impossible in
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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 infor-
mation coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant library
consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias 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 realized only by the in-
formation 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 re-
pute from the University of San Diego, California, confesses this fact in

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