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THE EVOLUTION MISCONCEPTION

The Complex Structure of Life

The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in
such a big impasse about the origin of life is that even the living
organisms deemed the simplest have incredibly complex
structures. The cell of a living being is more complex than all of
the technological products produced by man. Today, even in
the most developed laboratories of the world, a living cell
cannot be produced by bringing inorganic materials together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too
great in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The
probability of proteins, the building blocks of cell, being
synthesized coincidentally, is 1 in 10 950 for an average protein
made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability
smaller than 1 over 10 50 is practically considered to be
impossible.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of the cell
and which stores genetic information, is an incredible
databank. It is calculated that if the information coded in DNA
were written down, this would make a giant library consisting
of 900 volumes of encyclopaedias of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: the DNA
can only replicate with the help of some specialized proteins
(enzymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can only
be realized by the information coded in DNA. As they both
depend on each other, they have to exist at the same time for
replication. This brings the scenario that life originated by itself
to a deadlock. Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evolutionist of repute from
the University of San Diego, California, confesses this fact in the
September 1994 issue of the Scientific American magazine:
It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of
which are structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same
place at the same time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one