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other, the likelihood of these nucleotides assuming the desired se-
600
quence is just 1 in 10 . In short, the odds of the DNA code of an av-
erage protein in the human body emerging spontaneously is 1 in 10 fol-
lowed by 600 zeros. This number goes far beyond astronomical. I. L.
Cohen, author of the book Darwin Was Wrong: A Study in Probabilities,
states that genetic information cannot possibly have emerged by

chance:
Mathematicians agree that any requisite number beyond 10 50 has, statis-
tically, a zero probability of occurrence. Any species known to us, includ-
ing the smallest single-cell bacteria, have enormously larger number of
nucleotides than 100 or 1,000. In fact, single cell bacteria display about
3,000,000 nucleotides, aligned in a very specific sequence. This means
that there is no mathematical probability whatever for any known species
to have been the product of a random occurrence-random mutations (to
use the evolutionist's favorite expression). 183
The impossibility of nucleotides combining in a chance manner to
give rise to RNA and DNA is set out by the evolutionist French scien-
tist Paul Auger:
We have to sharply distinguish the two stages in the chance formation of
complex molecules such as nucleotides by chemical events. The produc-
tion of nucleotides one by one-which is possible-and the combination of
these within very special sequences. The second is absolutely impossi-
ble. 184