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Harun Yahya

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knows what their hearts conceal and what they divulge. He is Allah.
There is no deity but Him. Praise be to Him in this world and the
Hereafter. Judgment belongs to Him. You will be returned to Him.
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Darwin maintained that if certain chemicals representing the raw
material of life were present in a warm lake, proteins could form, and
would multiply and combine to give rise to a cell. 201 Thousands of sci-
entists attempting to make Darwin's hypothesis a reality and to provide
an evolutionary explanation for the origin of life have ventured down
that same dead-end road.
In the 1920s, the Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin and the
British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane put forward their theory known as
"chemical evolution." They maintained what Darwin had imagined-
that with the addition of energy, the molecules comprising the raw ma-
terial, life could develop spontaneously and form a living cell.
However, no evolutionist, Oparin included, was able to come up with
any evidence to back up the claims of chemical evolution. On the con-
trary, every new discovery made in the 20 th century showed that life
was far too complex to have come about by chance. The well-known
evolutionist Leslie Orgel makes this confession: " . . . at first glance, one
might have to conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated by
chemical means." 202
Leaving aside the cell for a moment, it is impossible for the nucle-
otides in DNA's basic structure to have emerged by chance and main-
tained their chemical properties under the conditions of the primeval
Earth. The magazine Scientific American, which follows a pro-evolution
line, expresses evolutionist admissions on the subject:
Even the simpler molecules are produced only in small amounts in real-