Page 47 - The Dark Spell of Darwinism

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

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The information content of a simple cell has been estimated at around 10 bits,
comparable to about a hundred million pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 19
But we must also point out that Sagan, despite that fact that he has
openly stated this important truth, still believes the impossible: that the
DNA code has come into being through some completely random natural
processes.
Located in the nucleus of the cell, DNA has an extraordinarily long,
thin structure. But despite its length, it has been folded—actually packed—
into the nucleus. If we magnified a cell nucleus 100 times, it would be about
the size of the head of a pin. Yet if we stretched out the DNA folded into
this tiny nucleus and magnified it at the same scale, it would be about the
size of a football field. 20
By what power was so much information put into the DNA, and DNA
into the nucleus of a cell? And how? The answer evolutionists give to this
question shows their blind allegiance to their theory. They claim that the
billions of bits of information relevant to a living creature have been en-
coded in DNA by a chance evolutionary process; the DNA then put itself—
by chance and by the same natural process—into the cell's nucleus. Think,
for example, of the information bank of any airline company: It is primitive
compared to DNA. Who would state that such an information bank, with
all its letters and numbers, came into existence as the result of a chance oc-
currence? Could anyone who made such a claim be thinking clearly?
The noted French zoologist, Pierre Grassé, is both a materialist and an
evolutionist, and an outspoken authority on this matter. But he openly con-
fesses that the Darwinist theory cannot explain the origins of life. He be-

lieves that one major fact renders the Darwinist explanation untenable: the
information that goes into the formation of life. In his book, The Evolution of
Living Organisms, Grassé writes:
Any living being possesses an enormous amount of "intelligence," very much
more than is necessary to build the most magnificent of cathedrals. Today, this
"intelligence" is called information, but it is still the same thing. It is not pro-
grammed as in a computer, but rather it is condensed on a molecular scale in
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