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make any errors in the work they do. The 100 trillion DNA molecules
in your body, the nucleotides that constitute that DNA, the proteins

that build the cell, the enzymes that so perfectly organize the traffic
among those cells, the amino acids that make up the enzymes, and the
100 trillion cells that contain that DNA and make you, all are structures
with a sublime organization and order.
Bear in mind the delicate order and balance in the information
contained in DNA, and you can better see how impossible the idea of
chance emergence truly is. As we have already shown in some detail,
DNA's information is made up by the "letters" A, T, G and C laid out
one after the other in a particular and meaningful way. In this sequence,
however, there must not be a single mistake. In a whole encyclopedia,

a spelling error or wrong letter may not be that important and may usu-
ally not even be noted. In contrast, a single error in any step in DNA
–say, the faulty coding of letter number 1 billion, 719 million, 348 thou-
sand and 632– could have lethal consequences for the cell, and there-
fore for the entire human being.
The minimum change in a genome creates a change in a nucleotide. Yet
even here, a seemingly insignificant error can give rise to very serious
consequences. The presence of A (adenine) instead of C (cytosine) in the
pigment-coding gene known as rhodopsin in the human retina causes a
disease leading to blindness. 116
Inherited diseases that are almost impossible to treat can emerge

as the result of an impairment arising in a single gene. Children born
with the disease phenylketonuria, for instance, are unable to metabo-
lize the amino acid phenylalanine, found in protein foods. As a result,
the increasing phenylalanine and its waste products in the blood and
other body fluids damages the growing child's brain, leading to serious
mental impairment and various diseases of the nervous system. This
disease is caused by a defective gene responsible for the manufacture
of the enzyme hydroxylase. Gene defects of this kind are the causes of