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database larger, in information content, than all 30 volumes of the
Encyclopedia Britannica put together. And this figure is for each cell. 140

Dr. Francis Collins, one of the world’s most important experts on ge-
netics and the scientist who deciphered the DNA code, has announced his
belief in Allah. Following his great discovery, Collins wrote a book de-
scribing his faith in Allah. Every rational person of good conscience will
appreciate that unconscious atoms could never spontaneously give rise to

the extraordinary system in DNA.
Francis Collins:
I felt the presence of God while working in the laboratory. There is defi-
nitely a force greater than ourselves, and I believe in that. Deciphering
DNA drew me a little closer to God. 141

Some evolutionists admit that such is the case:
Carly P. Haskins 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
translating it appear simultaneously in evolution? It seems almost incred-
ible that any such coincidence could have occurred, given the extraordi-
nary complexities of both sides and the requirement that they be coordi-
nated accurately for survival. By a pre-Darwinian (or a skeptic of evolu-
tion after Darwin) this puzzle would surely have been interpreted as the
most powerful sort of evidence for special creation. 142

Leslie E. Orgel is a senior fellow and researcher professor at the
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in San Diego:
We do not understand even the general features of the origin of the ge-
netic code... [It] is the most baffling aspect of the problem of the origins of
life and a major conceptual or experimental breakthrough may be needed
before we can make any substantial progress. 143

Paul Auger is an evolutionist and French scientist:
It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of which