Page 378 - Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

The Complex Structure of Life
The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such
a great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even those living

organisms deemed to be the simplest have incredibly complex structu-
res. The cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our man-made
technological products. Today, even in the most developed laboratories
of the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic che-
micals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of pro-
teins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is
1 in 10 950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathe-
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matics, a probability smaller than 1 over 10 is considered to be impos-
sible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the infor-
mation coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant libra-
ry consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopaedias consisting
of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can repli-
cate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes).

However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be realized only by the
information coded in DNA. As they both depend on each
other, they have to exist at the same time for replica-
tion. This brings the scenario
that life originated by itself to

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