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San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an article published in Earth
Magazine in 1998:

Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest unsolved
problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century: How did life
originate on Earth? 28

The Complex Structure of Life

The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a big

impasse about the origin of life is that even the living organisms deemed the
simplest have incredibly complex structures. The cell of a living being is more
complex than all of the technological products produced by man. Today, even
in the most developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be
produced by bringing inorganic materials together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in quantity

to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of proteins, the building
blocks of 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 50 is practically considered to be impossible.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of the cell and which
stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. It is calculated that if the
information coded in DNA were written down, this would make a giant library
consisting of 900 volumes of encyclopaedias of 500 pages each.

A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: the DNA can only
replicate with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes). However, the
synthesis of these enzymes can only be realized by the information coded in
DNA. As they both depend on each other, they have to exist at the same time
for replication. This brings the scenario that life originated by itself to a
deadlock. Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evolutionist of repute from the University of

San Diego, California, confesses this fact in the September 1994 issue of the
Scientific American magazine:
It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of which are
structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same place at the same time. Yet it
also seems impossible to have one without the other. And so, at first glance, one might
have to conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated by chemical means. 29

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