Page 114 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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When a particular protein needs to be manufactured, an enzyme by the
name of RNA polymerase goes to the DNA, the cell's data bank, finds the in-
formation regarding the protein to be produced, and takes a copy of it. First
it must select and extract the relevant letters for the protein to be manufac-
tured from among the 3 billion letters comprising the DNA molecule. The way
the polymerase enzyme extracts a few lines of data from those 3 billion let-
ters resembles the instant location of a few lines in an encyclopedia of 1,000
pages with no description being provided.
The data regarding a single protein may sometimes be dispersed in dif-
ferent section of the DNA. For that reason, once the RNA polymerase en-
zyme has copied the section from where the information begins to where it
ends, it will also have copied irrelevant segments. The presence of unneces-
sary information will lead to the manufacture of useless and unnecessary
proteins. At this point, enzymes known as spliceosomes come to the rescue
and extract the unnecessary sections from among hundreds of thousands of
pieces of information, and then splice the remaining parts together.
Molecules of only a few atoms exhibit miraculous behavior in the RNA-
severing process. They correct gaps and errors in the text, just like an editor.
These atoms know which protein the RNA polymerase wants to manufacture,
are able to differentiate between information necessary for that protein to
come into being and needless information, and they carry out this task
among hundreds of thousands of pieces of data without making a single er-
ror. They also realize immediately when their presence is required, and ar-
rive to begin work without a moment's delay.
In order to read the information contained in human DNA, hundreds of
leading scientists managed to do this only within the framework of the Human
Genome Project, working for some 10 years with the most highly developed