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tion carefully and flawlessly encoded in DNA. The question, therefore,
is not how the DNA chain emerged, because as you have seen, the
DNA chain and its extraordinary data capacity would serve no purpose
on its own. There must be enzymes to read and replicate the DNA
chain, and produce proteins in the light of these copies. In order for life
to exist, the data bank of DNA and the systems to reading that data
must both exist together. This most important property of the cell is re-
ferred to as irreducible complexity.
As Prof. Frank B Salisbury says,
Now we know that the cell itself is far more complex than we had imag-
ined. It includes thousands of functioning enzymes, each one of them a
complex machine itself. Furthermore, each enzyme comes into being in
response to a gene, a strand of DNA. The information content of the gene-
its complexity-must be as great as that of the enzyme it controls. 193
The absence of even one organelle from a cell, every part of which
consists of interconnected systems, will mean that cell fails to function.
The cell cannot wait for such a vital deficiency to be rectified gradual-
ly, through any supposed process of evolution. It is therefore impossi-
