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TRUE WISDOM DESCRIBED IN THE QUR'AN

those living organisms deemed to be the simplest have incredibly
complex structures. The cell of a living thing is more complex than
all of our man-made technological products. Today, even in the most
developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be pro-
duced 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 a cell, being synthesized coinciden-
tally, 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 consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedi-
as consisting of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can rep-
licate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (en-
zymes). 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 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 conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated