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mous Darwinists admitting the impossibility of proteins com-
ing into existence as a result of coincidence:
Harold Blum:
"The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of the

smallest known proteins seems beyond all probability." 101
Hoimar von Ditfurth:
"These two polymers [egg white and nucleic acids] have been
constructed in such a complex manner and, as if that were not
enough, their structures exhibit such a high level of individual-
ity that to imagine these came to that level by acquiring wealth

solely as the result of chance goes far beyond being even an as-
tronomically and inconceivably small possibility." 102
"The statistical impossibility of the living structures in question
emerging as the result of chance alone is a rather current exam-

ple of the present-day level of development of science. Indeed,
looking at those extraordinary individual features in the for-
mations of a single protein carrying out biological functions, it
appears impossible to explain a large number of atoms com-
bining together, all in the correct and requisite sequence, at the
right time and moment and with the right electrical and me-
chanical features, all in terms of chance." 103

"No matter how large the universe may be, chance giving rise
to the birth of protein and nucleic acid is [an] impossibili-
ty..." 104
The information provided throughout this book regard-

ing the structures, functions and production of proteins invis-
ible to the naked eye shows that it is impossible for these struc-
tures to have formed by chance. This information about pro-
teins is just a short summary of the total picture. In addition,
there still remain many secrets about proteins that science has
yet to fathom.