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tained in the blueprint; in the same way, the
blueprint contained in RNA cannot produce
proteins by itself without the cooperation of
other cellular components which follow the
instructions contained in the RNA.
Proteins are produced in the ribosome
factory with the help of many enzymes and
as a result of extremely complex processes
within the cell. The ribosome is a complex cell
Dr. Leslie Orgel: “... life
organelle made up of proteins. This leads, could never, in fact, have
therefore, to another unreasonable supposi- originated by chemical
means.”
tion-that ribosomes, too, should have come
into existence by chance at the same time.
Even Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod,
who was one of the most fanatical defenders of evolution-and atheism-ex-
plained that protein synthesis can by no means be considered to depend
merely on the information in the nucleic acids:
The code is meaningless unless translated. The modern cell's translating ma-
chinery consists of at least 50 macromolecular components, which are them-
selves coded in DNA: the code cannot be translated otherwise than by products of
translation themselves. It is the modern expression of omne vivum ex ovo. When
and how did this circle become closed? It is exceedingly difficult to imag-
ine. 135
How could an RNA chain in the primordial world have taken such a
decision, and what methods could it have employed to make protein pro-
duction happen by doing the work of 50 specialized particles on its own?
Evolutionists have no answer to these questions.
Dr. Leslie Orgel, one of the associates of Stanley Miller and Francis
Crick from the University of California at San Diego, uses the term "sce-
nario" for the possibility of "the origination of life through the RNA
World". Orgel described what kind of features this RNA have had to have
and how impossible this would have been in his article "The Origin of Life"
published in American Scientist in October 1994:
This scenario could have occured, we noted, if prebiotic RNA had two prop-
erties not evident today: A capacity to replicate without the help of proteins
and an ability to catalyze every step of protein synthesis. 136
As should by now be clear, to expect these two complex and ex-