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tech no log i cal pro ducts. Today, even in the most devel -
oped lab o ra to ries of the world, a liv ing cell can not be
pro duced by bring ing organ ic chem i cals togeth er.
The con di tions required for the for ma tion of a cell
are too great in quan ti ty to be explained away by coin -
ci den ces. The prob a bil i ty of pro teins, the build ing
blocks of a cell, being syn the sized coin ci den tal ly, is 1
in 10 950 for an aver age pro tein made up of 500 amino
acids. In math e mat ics, a prob a bil i ty small er than 1 over
10 50 is con sid ered to be impos si ble in prac ti cal terms.
The DNA mol e cule, which is locat ed in the nucle us of
a cell and which stores genet ic infor ma tion, is an incred -
i ble data bank. If the infor ma tion coded in DNA were
writ ten down, it would make a giant library con sist ing of
an esti mat ed 900 vol umes of ency clo pe di as con sist -
ing of 500 pages each.
A very inter est ing dilem ma emer ges at this point:
DNA can rep li cate itself only with the help of some spe -
cial ized pro teins (enzymes). However, the syn the sis of
these enzymes can be real ized only by the infor ma tion
coded in DNA. As they both depend on each other, they
have to exist at the same time for rep li ca tion. This brings
the sce nar io that life orig i nat ed by itself to a dead lock.
Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evo lu tion ist of repute from the
University of San Diego, California, con fess es this fact
in the September 1994 issue of the Scientific American
mag a zine:

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