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Confessions Regarding the Impossibility
of the "RNA World" Thesis

In the 1970s, scientists realized that the gasses actually contained in
the primeval Earth's atmosphere made protein synthesis impossible. This
came as a grave blow to the theory of evolution, when the primeval at-
mosphere experiments conducted by evolutionists such as Miller, Fox and
Ponnamperuma were proved to be totally invalid.
In the 1980s, therefore, evolutionists began looking elsewhere. As a

result, the thesis of the RNA world was put forward by the chemist Walter
Gilbert in 1986. He suggested that proteins did not form first, but rather
the RNA molecule that carries protein data.
Billions of years ago, according to this scenario, an imaginary RNA

molecule somehow capable of replicating itself came into being in a
chance manner. Under the effect of environmental conditions, this RNA
molecule began suddenly producing imaginary proteins. The need then
arose to store these data in another molecule, and in some way, the imag-
inary DNA molecule was formed.
This scenario is difficult even to imagine, and every stage of it con-

sists of a separate impossibility. Instead of explaining the origin of life, it
actually expanded the problem and gave rise to a number of unanswer-
able questions. Since it's impossible to account for even one of the nu-
cleotides making up RNA having formed by chance, how could nu-
cleotides have come to make up RNA by combining in just the correct

imaginary sequence?
Let us remember here that Darwinists have had to espouse the RNA
world thesis as a result of their helplessness stemming from their inabili-
ty to account for even a single protein. How can Darwinists, unable to ac-
count for even a single protein, explain how the far more complex RNA
might have come into existence spontaneously? It is noteworthy that no

evolutionist discussing the RNA world thesis ever touches on that subject.