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the formation of the universe is 10 , one can better appreciate how low
the odds of an enzyme with a specific sequence forming really are. So how
did enzymes emerge? 110
Scientific American is a well-known American scientific magazine

with strongly pro-evolution views:
Even the simpler molecules are produced only in small amounts in real-
istic experiments simulating possible primitive earth conditions. What is
worse, these molecules are generally minor constituents of tars: It remains
problematical how they could have been separated and purified through
geochemical processes whose normal effects are to make organic mixtures
more and more of a jumble. With somewhat more complex molecules,
these difficulties rapidly increase. In particular, a purely geochemical ori-
gin of nucleotides [the subunits of DNA and RNA] presents great diffi-
culties. 111
Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe is professor of applied mathemat-
ics and astronomy at Cardiff University and director of the Cardiff

Center for Astrobiology:
The likelihood of the spontaneous formation of life from inanimate mat-
ter is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it... It is big enough to
bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval
soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life
were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purpose-
ful intelligence. 112

Carly P. Haskings is an evolutionist biologist. The following is ex-
cerpted from an article published in American Scientist magazine:
But the most sweeping evolutionary questions at the level of biochemical
genetics are still unanswered. How the genetic code first appeared and
then evolved and, earlier even than that, how life itself originated on earth
remain for the future to resolve... Did the code and the means of translat-
ing it appear simultaneously in evolution? It seems almost incredible that
any such coincidence could have occurred, given the extraordinary com-
plexities of both sides and the requirement that they be coordinated a c -
curately for survival. By a pre-Darwinian (or a skeptic of evolution after
Darwin), this puzzle would surely have been interpreted as the most
powerful sort of evidence for special creation. 113