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complex molecules such as nu-
cleotides by chemical events. The
production of nucleotides one by
one - which is possible- and the
combination of these with in very
special sequences. The second is
absolutely impossible. 127
For many years, Francis
Crick believed in the theory of
molecular evolution, but
Watson and Crick with a stick model of the eventually even he had to
DNA molecule. admit to himself that such a
complex molecule could not
have emerged spontaneously by coincidence, as the result of an evolution-
ary process:
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could
only state that, in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be
almost a miracle. 128
The Turkish evolutionist Professor Ali Demirsoy was forced to make
the following confession on the issue:
In fact, the probability of the formation of a protein and a nucleic acid (DNA-
RNA) is a probability way beyond estimating. Furthermore, the chance of the
emergence of a certain protein chain is so slight as to be called astronomic. 129
A very interesting paradox emerges at this point: While DNA can
only replicate with the help of special proteins (enzymes), the synthesis of
these proteins can only be realised by the information encoded in DNA. As
they both depend on each other, either they have to exist at the same time
for replication, or one of them has to be "created" before the other. The
American microbiologist Homer Jacobson comments:
Directions for the reproduction of plans, for energy and the extraction of
parts from the current environment, for the growth sequence, and for the ef-
fector mechanism translating instructions into growth-all had to be simulta-
neously present at that moment [when life began]. This combination of
events has seemed an incredibly unlikely happenstance, and has often been
ascribed to divine intervention. 130
The quotation above was written two years after the discovery of the
structure of DNA by Watson and Crick. But despite all the developments
in science, this problem for evolutionists remains unsolved. Two German