Page 399 - A Call For Unity

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

outstandingly complex structures. The cell of a living thing is
more complex than all of our man-made technological prod-
ucts. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of the
world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organ-
ic 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 coincidentally, is 1 in 10 950 for an average pro-
tein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a proba-
50
bility smaller than 1 over 10 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 a magnificent
databank. If the information coded in DNA were written

down, it would make a giant library consisting 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 specialized pro-
teins (enzymes). 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 origi-
nated by itself to a deadlock. Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evolution-

ist 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 sponta-

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