Page 41 - The Dark Spell of Darwinism

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

millions of fundamental elements of life (for example, proteins, the building
blocks of cells) be the product of chance? The probability is nil.
In this light, we see once more how evolutionists can believe the im-
possible.
First, we will describe briefly what proteins are. A great part of what
makes up our bodies is proteins, but of several different kinds. For example,
the protein that changes consumed sugar into energy is called hexokinase.
Skin is formed by great amounts of a protein called collagen. When light
strikes the retina in our eye, it first reacts with a protein called rhodopsin.
Proteins have many different functions in the body, and each one does only its
own work. Rhodopsin, for example, doesn't form skin, and collagen is not sen-
sitive to light. Therefore, any single cell contains thousands of proteins re-
sponsible for carrying out the activities that occur within that cell.
Any protein is a string of molecules, constructed out of the combina-
tion of much smaller molecules called amino acids. There are many kinds of
proteins, from those containing only 50 amino acids to others containing
thousands.
Here, we must be careful to notice that in the production of proteins,
amino acids do not organize themselves randomly. On the contrary, each
protein has a specific sequence of amino acids, and if even one amino acid
should be out of place, the protein becomes useless.
We can compare proteins
to a written text: If an amino
acid is a letter, a protein is a
paragraph composed of a few
hundred letters. We can com-
pose comprehensible sentences
by arranging 29 letters side by

Right: the complex, three-dimen-
sional structure of a protein.

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