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The Deception of Evolution

plain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey Bada, from
the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an article published in
Earth magazine in 1998:
Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest un-
solved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century:
How did life originate on Earth? 5

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 organ-
isms deemed to be the simplest have incredibly complex structures. The
cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our man-made technolog-
ical products. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of the
world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chemicals to-
gether.
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 mathematics,
a probability smaller than 1 over 10 50 is considered to be impossible 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 information
coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant library consist-
ing of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages
each.
Avery interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNAcan replicate it-
self 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 replication. This brings the scenario that life originated

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