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William Stokes, an American evolutionist and geologist:

[Protein] would not occur during billions of years on billions of planets,
each covered by a blanket of a concentrated watery solution of the neces-
sary amino acids. 106
Andrew Scott is an evolutionist biochemist and science writer:
Take some matter, heat while stirring and wait. That is the modern ver-
sion of Genesis. The 'fundamental' forces of gravity, electromagnetism
and the strong and weak nuclear forces are presumed to have done the
rest.... But how much of this neat tale is firmly established, and how much
remains hopeful speculation? In truth, the mechanism of almost every
major step, from chemical precursors up to the first recognizable cells, is
the subject of either controversy or complete bewilderment. 107
Dr. Christian Schwabe is professor of biochemistry and molecular

biology at the Medical University of South Carolina:
Molecular evolution is about to be accepted as a method superior to pale-
ontology for the discovery of evolutionary relationships. As a molecular
evolutionist, I should be elated. Instead, it seems disconcerting that many
exceptions exist to the orderly progression of species as determined by
molecular homologies: so many in fact, that I think the exception, the
quirks, may carry the more important message. 108

Prof. Cemal Yıldırım is a Turkish evolutionist, and professor of
philosophy at Middle East Technical University:
One suggestion made in order to prove that life cannot appear by chance
is the unbelievably low probability of a functional enzyme emerging. A
typical enzyme consists of 100 amino acids. Since there are 20 kinds of
amino acid, we are looking at 20,100 possible combinations The possibil-
ity of a specific enzyme forming by chance in a single step from among so
many possible combinations is 1 in 10 130 . The point that is ignored is that
molecular kinetics are not random, and that functional enzymes appear
all the time. 109

Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy is a biologist at Hacettepe University:
An enzyme consists of an average of 100 amino acids. The number of pos-
sible combinations of an enzyme consisting of 100 amino acids of 20 dif-
ferent types is 20 100 . Bearing in mind that the total number of atoms in the
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universe is 10 , and that the number of seconds that have gone by since