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even the slightest knowledge of biochemistry. This evolutionist
is unaware, or else ignoring the facts that proteins consist of
strings of amino acids arranged as if on a beaded necklace; that
there are 20 different types of amino acids; and even more im-

portantly, for a chain of amino acids to be regarded as a protein,
they must be arranged in a specific order.
This is like imagining that a poem is a random combination
of letters, and then saying, "It's easy for a poem to emerge by
chance. Put two letters together, then a third and then a fourth,
and you can easily wind up with a poem thousands of letters

long." In fact, however, in order for a poem to emerge, letters
need to be set out in a particular sequence to acquire meaning.
And amino acids are arranged to constitute proteins in a far
more difficult and complex process.
Since amino acid strings must be arranged in a particular

order to produce a protein, the odds of such a sequence coming
about by chance are zero.
Even the most dyed-in-the-wool Darwinists accept the fact
that proteins cannot emerge by chance. As one example, the
Russian scientist Alexander Oparin, regarded as the father of the
theory of molecular evolution, said: "The spontaneous formation

of such an atomic arrangement in the protein molecule would
seem as improbable as the accidental origin of Virgil's Aeneid
from scattered letters.” 94
The same calculations have been performed, and the same
probability figures obtained, by such well-known Darwinists as

David Shapiro, Harold Morovitz, Francis Crick, Carl Sagan,
Lecompte du Nuoy and Frank Salisbury.
For years, it has been known that every protein's properties
and functions depend on its amino acid sequence and bonds.
For example, the protein histone turns into a three-dimensional