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THE EVOLUTION MISCONCEPTION 95

technological products produced by man. Today, even in the
most developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be
produced by bringing organic chemicals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too
great in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The
probability of proteins, the building blocks of cell, being synthe-
sized 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 practically considered to be impossible.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of the cell
and which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank.
It is calculated that if the information coded in DNA were writ-
ten down, this would make a giant library consisting of 900 vol-
umes of encyclopaedias of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: the DNA
can only replicate with the help of some specialized proteins
(enzymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can only
be realized by the information coded in DNA. As they both de-
pend on each other, they have to exist at the same time for repli-
cation. 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
September 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
without the other. And so, at first glance, one might have to con-
clude that life could never, in fact, have originated by chemical
means. 39
No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated from
natural causes, then it has to be accepted that life was "created"
in a supernatural way. This fact explicitly invalidates the theory
of evolution, whose main purpose is to deny creation.