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to store information about this protein so that it can be replicated at a lat-
er stage. A coding system can never originate in matter. The Miller exper-
iments thus do not contribute to an explanation of the origin of life. 217

The well-known physicist Prof. Paul Davies refers to the approach
adopted in the experiments performed being flawed right from the
very beginning:
The living cell is best thought of as a supercomputer-an information proc-
essing and replicating system of astonishing complexity. DNA is not a
special life-giving molecule, but a genetic databank that transmits its in-

formation using a mathematical code. Most of the workings of the cell are
best described, not in terms of material stuff-hardware-but as informa-
tion, or software. Trying to make life by mixing chemicals in a test tube is
like soldering switches and wires in an attempt to produce Windows 98.
It won't work because it addresses the problem at the wrong conceptual
level. 218
This all goes to show that everything in the cell must be present in
complete and perfect form, and in just the right place, from the very
first moment. The slightest deficiency or change will spell the death of
the entire cell. It is impossible for the kind of trial-and-error process
posited by the theory of evolution to give rise to a living cell, even if the
process lasted not for just billions of years, but for trillions upon tril-
lions. There is absolutely no possibility that unconscious natural phe-

nomena gave rise to the irreducibly complex structures and systems in-
side the cell, in one single event. The way that some still ascribe divine
status to chance, despite seeing these clear scientific facts, is an empty
deception.
Allah reveals the superstitious beliefs of such people in the
Qur'an:
He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and the Earth belongs. He
does not have a son and He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created
everything and determined it most exactly. But they have adopted dei-