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DNA codes of the beta-globin gene. These codes make up one of the parts of the haemoglobin that carry oxygen in the blood.
The important thing is that if there is an error in just one of these codes, the protein that is produced will be totally useless.

such as RNA is againt scientific thought. Concrete scientific facts, on the other hand, makes it explicit that the
RNA World hypothesis, which is a new model proposed for the chance formation of life, is an equally implau-
sible fable.
John Horgan, in his book The End of Science, reports that Stanley Miller viewed the theories subsequently

put forward regarding the origin of life as quite meaningless (It will be recalled that Miller was the originator
of the famous Miller Experiment, which was later revealed to be invalid.):

In fact, almost 40 years after his original experiment, Miller told me that solving the riddle of the origin of life had
turned out to be more difficult than he or anyone else had envisioned… Miller seemed unimpressed with any of the
current proposals on the origin of life, referring to them as "nonsense" or "paper chemistry." He was so contemptu-
ous of some hypotheses that, when I asked his opinion of them, he merely shook his head, sighed deeply, and snick-

ered—as if overcome by the folly of humanity. Stuart Kauffman's theory of autocatalysis fell into this category.
"Running equations through a computer does not constitute an experiment," Miller sniffed. Miller acknowledged
that scientists may never know precisely where and when life emerged. 243

This statement, by a pioneer of the struggle to find an evolutionary explanation for the origin of life, clearly
reflects the despair felt by evolutionist scientists over the cul-de-sac they find themselves in.

Design Cannot Be Explained by Coincidence

So far, we have examined how impossible the accidental formation of life is. Let us again ignore these im-
possibilities for just a moment. Let us suppose that millions of years ago a cell was formed which had acquired
everything necessary for life, and that it duly "came to life." Evolution again collapses at this point. For even if
this cell had existed for a while, it would eventually have died and after its death, nothing would have re-

mained, and everything would have reverted to where it had started. This is because this first living cell, lack-
ing any genetic information, would not have been able to reproduce and start a new generation. Life would
have ended with its death.
The genetic system does not only consist of DNA. The following things must also exist in the same envi-
ronment: enzymes to read the code on the DNA, messenger RNA to be produced after reading these codes, a ri-
bosome to which messenger RNA will attach according to this code, transfer RNA to transfer the amino acids

to the ribosome for use in production, and extremely complex enzymes to carry out numerous intermediary
processes. Such an environment cannot exist anywhere apart from a totally isolated and completely controlled
environment such as the cell, where all the essential raw materials and energy resources exist.
As a result, organic matter can self-reproduce only if it exists as a fully developed cell, with all its or-

ganelles. This means that the first cell on earth was formed "all of a sudden," together with its extraordinarily
complex structure.

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