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THE DECEPTION OF EVOLUTION 79

by bringing organic chemicals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of
proteins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coinciden-
tally, is 1 in 10 950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids.
In mathematics, a probability smaller than 1 over 10 50 is considered
to be impossible in practical terms.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the
information coded in DNA were written down, it would make a
giant library consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclope-
dias consisting of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can repli-
cate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (en-
zymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be realized
only by the information coded in DNA. As they both depend on
each other, they have to exist at the same time for replication. This
brings the scenario that life originated by itself to a deadlock. Prof.
Leslie Orgel, an evolutionist of repute from the University of San
Diego, California, confesses this fact in the September 1994 issue of
the Scientific American magazine:

It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of
which are structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same
place at the same time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one with-
out the other. And so, at first glance, one might have to conclude that
life could never, in fact, have originated by chemical means. 6
No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated from nat-
ural causes, then it has to be accepted that life was "created" in a su-
pernatural way. This fact explicitly invalidates the theory of
evolution, whose main purpose is to deny creation.