At this
point, there is an important detail that deserves attention.
An error in the sequence of the nucleotides making up a gene
would render that gene completely useless. When it is considered
that there are 200,000 genes in the human body, it becomes
clearer how impossible it is for the millions of nucleotides
making up these genes to have been formed, in the right sequence,
by chance. The evolutionary biologist Frank Salisbury has
comments on this impossibility:
A medium protein might
include about 300 amino acids. The DNA gene controlling
this would have about 1,000 nucleotides in its chain. Since
there are four kinds of nucleotides in a DNA chain, one
consisting of 1,000 links could exist in 41,000
forms. Using a little algebra (logarithms) we can see that
41,000=10600. Ten multiplied by itself
600 times gives the figure 1 followed by 600 zeros! This
number is completely beyond our comprehension.264
The number 41,000 is the equivalent
of 10600. This means 1 followed by 600 zeros. As
1 with 12 zeros after it indicates a trillion, 600 zeros represents
an inconceivable number.
The impossibility of the formation of RNA and
DNA by a coincidental accumulation of nucleotides is expressed
by the French scientist Paul Auger in this way:
We have to sharply distinguish
the two stages in the chance formation of complex molecules
such as nucleotides by chemical events. The production of
nucleotides one by one-which is possible-and the combination
of these within very special sequences. The second is absolutely
impossible.265
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The extraordinary information
concealed in DNA is clear proof that life did not emerge
by chance, but was deliberately designed. No natural process
can account for the origin of DNA. |
For many years, Francis Crick believed in the
theory of molecular evolution, but eventually even he had
to admit to himself that such a complex molecule could not
have emerged spontaneously by chance, as the result of an
evolutionary process:
An honest man,
armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could
only state that, in some sense, the origin of life appears
at the moment to be almost a miracle.266
The Turkish evolutionist Professor Ali Demirsoy
was forced to make the following confession on the issue:
In fact, the probability
of the formation of a protein and a nucleic acid (DNA-RNA)
is a probability way beyond estimating. Furthermore, the
chance of the emergence of a certain protein chain is so
slight as to be called astronomic.267
A very interesting paradox emerges at this point:
While DNA can only replicate with the help of special proteins
(enzymes), the synthesis of these proteins can only be realized
by the information encoded in DNA. As they both depend on
each other, they have to exist at the same time for replication.
Science writer John Horgan explains the dilemma in this way:
DNA cannot do its work,
including forming more DNA, without the help of catalyticproteins,
or enzymes. In short, proteins cannot form without
DNA, but neither can DNA form without proteins.268
This situation once again undermines the scenario
that life could have come about by accident. Homer Jacobson,
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, comments:
Directions for the reproduction
of plans, for energy and the extraction of parts from the
current environment, for the growth sequence, and for the
effector mechanism translating instructions into growth-all
had to be simultaneously present at that moment [when life
began]. This combination of events has seemed an incredibly
unlikely happenstance...269
The quotation above was written two years after
the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick.
But despite all the developments in science, this problem
for evolutionists remains unsolved. This is why German biochemist
Douglas R. Hofstadter says:
'How did the Genetic
Code, along with the mechanisms for its translation (ribosomes
and RNA molecules), originate?' For the moment, we will
have to content ourselves with a sense of wonder
and awe, rather than with an answer.270
Stanley Miller and Francis Crick's close associate
from the University of San Diego, California, the highly reputed
evolutionist Dr. Leslie Orgel says in an article published
in 1994:
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
conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated
by chemical means.271
Alongside all of this, it is chemically impossible
for nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA, which possess a definite
string of information, to have emerged by chance, or for even
one of the nucleotides which compose them to have come about
by accident and to have survived and maintained its unadulterated
state under the conditions of the primordial world. Even the
famous journal Scientific American, which follows
an evolutionist line, has been obliged to confess the doubts
of evolutionists on this subject:
Even the simpler molecules
are produced only in small amounts in realistic experiments
simulating possible primitive earth conditions. What is
worse, these molecules are generally minor constituents
of tars: It remains problematical how they could
have been separated and purified through geochemical processes
whose normal effects are to make organic mixtures more and
more of a jumble. With somewhat more complex molecules
these difficulties rapidly increase. In particular
a purely geochemical origin of nucleotides (the subunits
of DNA and RNA) presents great difficulties.272
Of course, the statement "it is quite impossible
for life to have emerged by chemical means" simply means that
life is the product of an intelligent design. This "chemical
evolution" that evolutionists have been talking about since
the beginning of the last century never happened, and is nothing
but a myth.
But most evolutionists believe in this and similar
totally unscientific fairy tales as if they were true, because
accepting intelligent design means accepting creation-and
they have conditioned themselves not to accept this truth.
One famous biologist from Australia, Michael Denton, discusses
the subject in his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis:
To the skeptic, the
proposition that the genetic programmes of higher organisms,
consisting of something close to a thousand million bits
of information, equivalent to the sequence of letters in
a small library of 1,000 volumes, containing in encoded
form countless thousands of intricate algorithms controlling,
specifying, and ordering the growth and development of billions
and billions of cells into the form of a complex organism,
were composed by a purely random process is simply an affront
to reason. But to the Darwinist, the idea is accepted without
a ripple of doubt - the paradigm takes precedence!273
 
264 Frank B.
Salisbury, "Doubts about the Modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution,"
American Biology Teacher, September 1971, p. 336.
265 Paul Auger, De La Physique Theorique
a la Biologie, 1970, p. 118.
266 Francis Crick, Life Itself: It's
Origin and Nature, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1981,
p. 88. (emphasis added)
267 Ali Demirsoy, Kalitim ve Evrim
(Inheritance and Evolution), Meteksan Publishing Co., Ankara,
1984, p. 39.
268 John Horgan, "In the Beginning," Scientific
American, vol. 264, February 1991, p. 119. (emphasis
added)
269 Homer Jacobson, "Information, Reproduction
and the Origin of Life," American Scientist, January
1955, p. 121.
270 Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher,
Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Vintage Books, New York,
1980, p. 548. (emphasis added)
271 Leslie E. Orgel, "The Origin of Life
on Earth," Scientific American, vol. 271, October
1994, p. 78. (emphasis added)
272 Cairns-Smith, Alexander G., "The First
Organisms," Scientific American, 252: 90, June 1985.
(emphasis added)
273 Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory
in Crisis, London: Burnett Books, 1985, p. 351.
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