Page 24 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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th
n the second half of the 20 century,
advances in the field of molecular biology
entirely altered our perspective on the

miniaturized world inside the cell. With
today's rapidly developing technology, bi-
ologists have become aware of the flaw-
less and complex mechanisms possessed
by the cell, realizing that these could not
have come into being by chance or sponta-
neously. Most of the systems that consti-
tute the cell are smaller than the wave-
length of visible light. Some details in the
cell can be examined only by advanced
techniques such as X-ray crystallography.
However, at the time when Darwin
launched his theory, the level of science

was extremely backward. Not even the ba-
sic structure of the cell had been revealed,
let alone the discovery of the helix struc-
ture and data capacity of the DNA mole-
cule, which James Watson and Francis
Crick revealed nearly 100 years after the
publication of Darwin's book The Origin of
Species