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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

4. All the organelles in the cell have important tasks in protein syn-
thesis. In other words, in order for proteins to form a perfect and fully
functioning cell needs to exist together with all its organelles.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is a magnificient databank. If the infor-
mation coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant library
consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias consisting of 500
pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can replicate
itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes). Howev-
er, 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 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 Septem-
ber 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 with-
out the other. And so, at first glance, one might have to conclude that
life could never, in fact, have originated by chemical means. 67
No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated spontaneous-
ly as a result of blind coincidences, then it has to be accepted that life was
created. This fact explicitly invalidates the theory of evolution, whose
main purpose is to deny Creation.

Imaginary Mechanism of Evolution
The second important point that negates Darwin's theory is that
both concepts put forward by the theory as "evolutionary mechanisms"
were understood to have, in reality, no evolutionary power.
Darwin based his evolution allegation entirely on the mechanism of
"natural selection." The importance he placed on this mechanism was ev-

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