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were written down, it would make a giant library con-
sisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias
consisting of 500 pages each.
A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point:
DNA can replicate itself only with the help of some spe-
cialised proteins (enzymes). However, the synthesis of
these enzymes can be realised 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 without the
other. And so, at first glance, one might have to con-
clude that life could never, in fact, have originated by
chemical means. 24
No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originat-

All information about
living beings is stored
in the DNA molecule.
This incredibly efficient
information storage
method alone is a clear
evidence that life did
not come into being by
chance, but has been
purposely designed, or,
better to say, marvel-
lously created.