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Self-Sacrifice in the Qur'an's Moral Teachings

After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 85
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century to
explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey Bada,
from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an article pub-
lished in Earth magazine in 1998:
Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest un-
solved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century:
How did life originate on Earth? 86

The Complex Structure of Life

The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a
great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even those living organ-
isms deemed to be the simplest have outstandingly complex structures.
The cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our man-made tech-
nological products. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of
the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chem-
icals 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
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impossible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is a magnificent 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 repli-

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