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ADNAN OKTAR (HARUN YAHYA) 219
and give rise to proteins. Chemist Richard E. Dickinson explains
the reasons as follows: “If polymeric chains of proteins and nu-
cleic acids are to be forged out of their precursor monomers, a
molecule of water must be removed at each link in the chain.
It is therefore hard to see how polymerization could have
proceeded in the aqueous environment of the primitive ocean,
since the presence of water favors depolymerization rather than
polymerization. The chemist Richard E. Dickinson explains
why:
If polymeric chains of proteins and nucleic acids are to be forged
out of their precursor monomers, a molecule of water must be
removed at each link in the chain. It is therefore hard to see how
polymerization could have proceeded in the aqueous environ-
ment of the primitive ocean, since the presence of water favors
depolymerization rather than polymerization. 119
