Page 42 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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cule's dual backbones. The steps, on the other hand, consist of pairs of
four conjoined chemical substances known as bases: adenine, thymine,

cytosine and guanine. Bases are molecules consisting of between 12
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and 16 atoms including carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen. The-
se chemicals are also specially arranged on the DNA spiral. Only two
combinations of arrangements are possible: adenine (A) always bonds
to thymine (T), and cytosine (C) always bonds to guanine (G). 18
Scientists have established the special sequence in which the at-
oms making up DNA give rise to nucleotides. But knowing the struc-
ture of the building blocks of life is not the same thing as producing
them. Indeed, although the correct materials–atoms and the technolo-
gy to combine them–are available to scientists, they are utterly incapa-
ble of making a living DNA molecule.

In the Qur'an our Lord reveals that:
It is He Who gives life and causes to die. When He decides on some-
thing, He just says to it, "Be!" and it is. (Surah Ghafir, 68)
Your deity is Allah alone, there is no deity but Him. He encompasses
all things in His knowledge'. (Surah Ta Ha, 98)

A special creation is evident in the arrangements of the atoms.
Every nucleotide contains some 34 atoms. Since there are 6 billion nu-
cleotides in DNA, 204 billion atoms (34 times 6,000,000,000) need to
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combine chemically to form a single DNA molecule. Were you able to
process one atom a second and worked eight hours a day for 350 days
a year, it would still take you longer than 20,000 years to produce a sin-
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gle DNA molecule. Since this is beyond the capacity of even rational
human beings, can anyone imagine that the DNA molecule came into
existence by chance? Such a thing is of course out of the question. In
addition, bear in mind that in the absence of DNA molecules, living
things could not exist.
Indeed, the slightest error in DNA's structure gives rise to very se-

rious consequences, as the well-known science writer Richard Milton
describes: