The data Bank of Life: DNA
The progress of science makes it
clear that living beings have an extremely complex structure and an
order too perfect to have come into being by coincidence. This is
evidence to the fact that living beings are created by an All-Powerful
Creator with superior knowledge. Recently, for instance, with the
unravelling of the perfect structure in the human gene which became a
prominent issue due to the Genome Project, the unique creation of God
has once more been revealed for all to see.
From the U.S.A. to China, scientists
from all over the world have given their best efforts to decode the 3
billion chemical letters in DNA and to determine their sequence. As a
result, 85% of the data included in the DNA of human beings could be
sequenced properly. Although this is a very exciting and important
development, as Dr. Francis Collins, who leads the Human Genome Project
states, so far, only the first step has been taken in the decoding of
the information in DNA.
In order to understand why the
decoding of this information takes so long, we have to understand the
nature of the information stored in DNA.
The Secret World of DNA
In the manufacture or management of a
technological product or plant, the greatest tool employed is the
experience and accumulation of knowledge that man has acquired over many
centuries. The necessary knowledge and experience needed for the
construction of the human body, the most advanced and sophisticated
'plant' on earth, is stored in DNA. The important point to note here is
that DNA has always existed since the first human being in all its
present perfection and complexity. As you read the lines below, you will
also come to see clearly how unreasonable it is to claim, as
evolutionists do, that such a molecule, with all its mind-blowing
structure and properties, originated as a result of coincidences.
DNA is delicately protected in the
nucleus located in the center of the cell. When it is recalled that
human cells – numbering up to 100 trillions – have an average diameter
of 10 microns(A micron is 10-6 m.), the smallness of the area in
question is better understood. This miraculous molecule is a clear
evidence of the perfection and extraordinary nature of God's art of
creation. It is so much so that even a special branch of science has
been set up to explore the secrets of this molecule, many of which still
remain hidden. The name of this branch of science is "Genetics".
Recognized as the science of the 21st century, genetics is still in the
phase of crawling, as far as solving the mystery of DNA is concerned,
despite all the technological means at its disposal.
Life in the Nucleus
If we compare the human body to a building, the
body's complete plan and project down to its minute technical detail is
present in DNA, which is located in the nucleus of each cell. All the
developmental phases of a human being in the mother's womb and after
birth take place within the outlines of a predetermined program. This
perfect order in the development of man is stated as follows in the
Qur'an:
Does man reckon he will be left to go
on unchecked? Was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm, then a blood-clot
which He created and shaped. (Surat Al-Qiyama, 36-38)
Right at the phase of a newly
fertilized egg cell in the mother's womb, all the characteristics we
will bear in the future have been determined within a certain destiny
and coded in our DNAs in an orderly fashion. All our characteristics,
such as our height, skin colour, blood type, facial features that we
will bear when we come to our thirtieth year are encoded in the nucleus
of our inaugural cell thirty years nine months beforehand, starting from
the moment of insemination.
The body of information in DNA does
not only determine the physical properties we have mentioned above; it
also controls thousands of other operations and systems running in the
cell and the body. For instance, even the highness, lowness, or
normality of a person's blood pressure depends on the information stored
in DNA.
The Huge Encyclopedia in the Cell
The information stored in DNA must by
no means be underestimated. Though hard to believe, in a single DNA
molecule of a human being, there is enough information to fill exactly
one million encyclopedia pages. Do consider it; exactly 1,000,000
encyclopedia pages… This is to say that the nucleus of each cell
contains so much information as to fill a one-million-page-encyclopedia,
which is used to control the functions of the human body. To draw an
analogy, we can state that even the 23-volume-Encyclopedia Britannica,
one of the greatest encyclopedias of the world, has 25,000 pages.
Therefore, before us lies an incredible picture. In a molecule found in a
nucleus, which is far smaller than the microscopic cell wherein it is
located, there exists a data warehouse 40 times bigger than the biggest
encyclopedia of the world that includes millions of items of
information. This means a 920-volume huge encyclopedia which is unique
and has no equal in the world. Research puts it that this huge
encyclopedia would be estimated to contain 5 billion different pieces of
information. Were one piece of information present in human genes to be
read every second, non-stop, around the clock, it would take 100 years
before the process was completed. If we imagine that the information in
DNA were put in the form of a book, then, these books put on top of each
other would reach 70 meters high.
Let us repeat these two words just mentioned above; 'contain information'…
We should stop here and consider
these two words which we pronounce so simply. It is simple to say that a
cell contains billions of pieces of information. Yet, this is far away
from being a detail that can be casually dropped as a remark. This is
because what we talk about here is not a computer or a library, but just
a cube that is 100 times smaller than a millimeter, simply made up of
protein, fat and water molecules. It is an extremely amazing miracle for
this infinitesimal piece of flesh to contain and store even a single
bit of information-let alone millions of it.
In the modern era, people use computers to store
information. The computer technology is today considered as the most
advanced technology that paves the way to all other technologies. A body
of information, which, 20 years ago, could be stored in a computer the
size of a room, can today be stored in small "microchips", yet even the
latest technology invented by human intelligence after centuries of
accumulated knowledge and years of hard work is far from reaching the
information storage capacity of a single cell nucleus. We think that the
following comparison would be sufficient to give a sense of the
smallness of DNA, which has such an immense capacity:
The information necessary to specify
the design of all the species of organisms which have ever existed on
the planet, a number according to G.G. Simpson of approximately one
thousand million, could be held in a teaspoon and there would still be
room left for all the information in every book ever written.1
How can a chain invisible to the eye,
made up of atoms arranged sideways, with a diameter the size of a
billionth of a millimeter, possess such an information capacity and
memory? And also add the following to this question: While each one of
the 100 trillion cells in your body knows one million pages of
information by heart, how many encyclopedia pages can you, as an
intelligent and conscious human being, memorize in your entire life?
The Wisdom in the Cell
In this case, you must admit that any
cell in your stomach or ear is much more learned than you, and since it
makes use of this information in the most correct and perfect way, it
is much more wise than you.
What, then, is the source of this
wisdom? How come every one of the 100 trillion cells in your body has
come to possess such an incredible wisdom? These are, after all, piles
of atoms, and they are unconscious. Take the atoms of all the elements,
combine them in different forms and numbers, obtain different molecules,
still you can never obtain wisdom. Whether these molecules are big or
small, simple or complex does not matter. You can never obtain a mind
that will consciously organize any process and accomplish it.
Then how can it be that DNA, which is
composed of the arrangement of a certain number of unwise and
unconscious atoms in certain sequences, and enzymes, working in a
harmonious way, is able to achieve much work and organise countless
complicated and diverse operations in the cell in a perfect and complete
manner? The answer to this is very simple; wisdom is not in these
molecules or in the cell that contains them, but in the self who has
brought these molecules into being, programming them to function as they
do.
Shortly put, wisdom is present not in
the work done, but in the creator of that work. Even the most developed
computer is the product of a wisdom and intellect that has written and
installed the programs to operate it, and then used it. Likewise, the
cell, DNA and RNAs in it, and the human being made up of these cells are
nothing but the works of the One Who created them as well as what they
do. No matter how perfect, complete and striking the work is, the wisdom
always lies with the owner of the work.
One day, if you found a diskette on
the table in the computer laboratory, and after looking inside,
discovered that it contains billions of items of information about you,
the first question that would come to your mind would be who has written
these pieces of information and why.
So, why don't we ask the same
question for the cell? If the information in the diskette was written by
someone, then by whom DNA, which has a much more superior and advanced
technology, is designed in the most perfect manner, created, and placed
in the tiny cell, which, by itself, is another miracle. Besides it has
not lost any of its properties for thousands of years until our day.
(Bear in mind that the brain of the human being who makes the diskette
and saves the data in it, is also made up of these cells.) What can be
more important for you than to question by whom and why these cells,
that function non-stop for you to read these lines, see, breathe, think,
in brief, to exist and continue to exist, have been brought into being?
Is not the answer to this question that which, in life, you must wonder about most?
The Language of the DNA
That is how the information in the
data bank in the nucleus is stored. While we describe the coding system
in this data warehouse, we will continue to use this letter analogy for
the nucleic acid molecules which constitute DNA. These letters match in
twos each forming a base pair in this way. These base pairs add on top
of each other to form the genes. Each gene, which comprises one portion
of DNA molecule, determines a particular feature of the human body.
Countless properties like height, eye colour, the material and the shape
of the nose, ear, and skull are formed by the command of the related
genes. We can compare every one of these genes to the pages of a book.
On thepages there are scripts made up of the letters A – T – G – C.
There are approximately 200,000 genes
in the DNA of a human cell. Every gene is composed of a special
sequence of nucleotides, the number of which ranges between 1000 and
186,000 according to the type of the protein it correlates. These genes
hold the codes of nearly 200,000 proteins that function in the human
body and control the production of these proteins.
The information stored in these
200,000 genes constitute only 3 %of the total information in DNA. The
remaining 97 % still maintains its mystery today. The recent studies
showed that this 97 % unknown part includes vital information about the
survival of the cell and the mechanisms that control the highly complex
activities within the body. Yet there is still a great distance to go.
The genes are located in the
chromosomes. There are 46 chromosomes in the nucleus of every human cell
(except for the reproduction cells). If we compare every one of the
chromosomes to a book volume made up of gene pages, we may say that in
the cell lies a 46-volume "cell encyclopedia" which covers all the
characteristics of a human being. Remembering the previous encyclopedia
example, this cell encyclopedia is equivalent to the knowledge contained
in a 920-volume 'Encyclopedia Britannica'.
The sequence of letters in the DNA
of every human is different. This is the basic reason why the billions
of people who have ever lived on earth look different from each other.
The basic structure and functions of organs are the same in every
person. However, every person is created in such a detailed and special
manner with such subtle differences that even though all people are
created from the division of a single cell and have the same basic
structure, billions of different people have come into existence.
All the organs in our body are
constructed within a plan outlined by our genes. To give a few examples,
according to a gene map completed by scientists, in the human body,
skin is controlled by 2,559, brain by 29,930, eye by 1,794, salivary
glands by 186, heart by 6,216, chest by 4,001, lung by 11,581, liver by
2,309, intestine by 3,838, skeletal muscle by 1,911 and blood cells by
22,902 genes.
The sequential order of the letters
in DNA determines the structure of a human being down to his slightest
details. In addition to features like height, eye, hair and skin
colours, the DNA of a single cell also contains the design of 206 bones,
600 muscles, a network of 10.000 auditory muscles, a network of 2
million optic nerves, 100 billion nerve cells, and 100 trillion cells in
the body.
Now let us think in the light of the
above information: Since even a letter cannot form without a writer
writing it, how did billions of letters in the human cell originate? How
did these letters queue up in a meaningful sequence so as to make up
the unique plan of such a perfect and complex body? If there were any
break downs in the order of these letters you could have your ear on
your abdomen or your eyes in your heels. You could have born with your
hands stuck on your back, and lived as a freak. The secret of your
living as a proper human currently lies in the 'flawless' sequence of
the billions of letters in the 46-volume encyclopedia in your DNA.
DNA Challanges Coincidence
Today mathematics has proved that coincidence does
not play a role in the formation of the coded information within DNA,
let alone the DNA molecule made up of millions of base pairs. The
probability of the coincidental formation of even a single gene out of
the 200,000 genes making up DNA is so low that even the notion of
impossible remains weak. Frank Salisbury, an evolutionist biologist,
makes the following statement about 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 41000 forms.
Using a little algebra (logarithms) we can see that 41000=10600. Ten
multiplied by itself 600 times gives the figure 1 followed by 600 zeros!
This number is completely beyond our comprehension.
That is to say that even if we assume
that all the necessary nucleotides are present in a medium, and that
all the complex molecules and enzymes to combine them were available,
the possibility of the these nucleotides being arranged in the desired
sequence is 1 in 41000, in other words, 1 in 10600. Briefly, the
probability of the coincidental formation of the code of an average
protein in the human body in DNA by itself is 1 in 1 followed by 600
zeros. This number, which is beyond even being astronomical, means in
practice 'zero' probability. This means that such a sequence has to be
effected under the control and knowledge of a wise and conscious power.
There is zero probability of it happening by 'accident', 'chance', or
'coincidence'.
Francis Crick, the biochemist who
discovered the structure of DNA, won a Nobel prize with respect to the
research he had made on the subject. Crick, who was an ardent
evolutionist, stated the following scientific opinion in a book he has
written after testifying the miraculous structure of DNA:"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." Even in Crick's view, who was one of the biggest
experts on DNA, life could never originate on earth spontaneously.
The data in DNA, which is made up of 5
billion letters, is composed of a special and meaningful sequence of
letters A-T-G-C. However, not even a single letter error should be made
in this sequence. A misspelled word or a letter error in an encyclopedia
may be overlooked and ignored. It would not even be noticed. However,
even a single mistake in any base pair of DNA, such as a miscoded letter
in the 1 billion 719 million 348 thousand 632nd base pair, would cause
terrible results for the cell, and therefore for the person himself. For
instance, haemophilia (child leukemia) is the outcome of such an
erroneous coding.
In truth, it would be incorrect to
call this "erroneous coding", because like every other thing that
exists, the human DNA, too, is created by God and even the seldom
occurring mistakes come about with respect to a hidden cause (divine
purpose). The coding mistake which causes cancer is a specially created
disorder. It is created specially for a certain hidden cause to show man
his own weakness and impotence, remind him of the delicate balances
man's creation depends on, and of what kind of troubles he may face in
case of the slightest disturbance in these balances.
EVOLUTIONISTS CANNOT EXPLAIN HOW THE INFORMATION IN DNA
ORIGINATED AND HOW IT DIFFERS IN EVERY SPECIES
While evolutionists can in no way bring any
explanation to the subject of how DNA originated, there is yet another
point where they reach an impasse. How come fish, reptiles, birds, human
beings etc. have come to possess different DNAs and different types of
information?
Evolutionists answer that question by
saying that the body of information in DNA developed and diversified
over time by means of coincidences. The coincidences they refer to are
"mutations". Mutations are changes which take place in DNA as a result
of radiation or chemical action.
Sometimes radioactive radiation happens
to fall on a DNA chain and destroys or displaces several base pairs
therein. According to evolutionists, living things have reached their
present perfect state as a result of the diversification of a single DNA
due to these mutations (i.e., accidents).
To show that this claim is
unreasonable, let us compare DNA to a book again. We have already
mentioned that DNA is made up of letters lined up sideways just like in a
book. Mutations are like the letter errors that occur during the
type-setting of this book. If you like, we can do an experiment on this
subject. Let us ask for a thick book about the history of the world to
be type-set. During the type-setting, let us intervene several times and
tell the type-setter to press one of keys blindfolded and at random.
Then let us give this text containing letter errors to someone else and
have him do the same thing over again. Using this method, let us have
the book type-set from the beginning to the end several times, thus
having a few more letter errors added to it at random each time...
Could this history book ever develop
by this method? For instance, would an additional chapter named "The
History of Ancient China", which previously was not present, emerge?
To be sure, the letter errors we have
added to the book would not develop it, but rather ruin it and distort
its meaning. The more we increase the number of faulty copying
processes, the more spoiled our book will be.
Yet the claim of the theory of
evolution is that "letter errors help develop a book". According to
evolution, mutations (errors) occurring in DNA have led to beneficial
results by accumulating and thus furnishing living beings with perfect
organs such as eyes, ears, wings, hands and consciousness-related
qualities such as thinking, learning, and reasoning.
Unquestionably, this claim is even
more unreasonable than the above example of the addition of the chapter
called "The History of Ancient China" to a book on world history as a
result of the accumulation of letter errors. (Moreover there is no
mechanism in nature that causes regular mutations as in the example of
the type-setter making regular mistakes. The mutations in nature take
place much more rarely than the letter errors that would occur during
the type-setting of a book.)
Every "explanation" put forward by
the theory of evolution on the origin of life is unreasonable and
unscientific. One outspoken authority on this issue is the famous French
zoologist Pierre Grassé, the former president of the French Academy of
Sciences. Grassé is also an evolutionist, but he states clearly that
Darwinist theory is unable to explain life and makes his point about the
logic of "coincidence", which is the backbone of Darwinism:
The opportune appearance of mutations
permitting animals and plants to meet their needs seems hard to
believe. Yet the Darwinian theory is even more demanding: A single
plant, a single animal would require thousands and thousands of lucky,
appropriate events. Thus, miracles would become the rule: events with an
infinitesimal probability could not fail to occur… There is no law
against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it.
Indeed, the theory of evolution,
which claims that inorganic matter came together by itself and formed
living beings with such glorious systems as DNA, is a scenario totally
contrary to science and reason. All this leads us to an evident
conclusion. Since life has a plan (DNA) and all living beings are
fashioned according to this plan, it is evident that there is a superior
Creator Who devised this plan. This simply means that all living beings
are created by God, the All-Powerful, All-Wise. God states this fact in
the Qur'an in this way:
He is God – the Creator, the Maker,
the Giver of Form. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in
the heavens and earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.
(Surat al-Hashr: 24)
Today, what people have achieved by
means of technology can at best be described as 'an approach to the
understanding of a tiny fragment of God's knowledge, as manifested in
human DNA.'
On the other hand, the theory of
evolution which tries to explain the origin of life as a series of
coincidences, loses all validity in face of the question: "How then, did
DNA originate?
The Question That Demolishes the Theory of Evolution:
How did the DNA Originate?
The question of how such an extraordinarily designed
molecule as DNA originated is one of the thousands of impasses
evolutionists reach. Seeking to explain life by means of "coincidence",
the theory of evolution can never explain the source of the
extraordinary information so perfectly and meticulously encoded in DNA.
Moreover, the question is not only
that of how the DNA chain originated. Even the existence of the DNA
chain with the extraordinary information capacity it contains, means
nothing by itself. In order to refer to life, it is essential that the
enzymes that read this DNA chain,copy them and produce proteins, also
exist. (Enzymes are large molecules that have certain functions in the
cell which they carry out with the precision of a robot.)
Simply put, in order to talk of life,
both the data bank we call DNA, and the machines to carry out
production by reading the data in the bank have to co-exist.
To our surprise, enzymes, which read
DNA and carry out production accordingly, are themselves produced
according to the codes in DNA. This means that there is a factory in the
cell that both makes many different types of products, and also
manufactures the robots and machines that carry out this production. The
question of how this system, which would be of no use with a minor
defect in any of its mechanisms originated, is by itself enough to
demolish the theory of evolution.
German evolutionist Douglas R. Hofstadler, states his despair in the face of this question:
'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.5
Another evolutionist authority, world renowned molecular biologist Leslie Orgel, is more outspoken on the subject:
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.
Saying "life could never have
originated by chemical means" is the equivalent of saying that "life
could never have originated by itself". Recognition of the truth of this
statement results in the realization that life is created in a
conscious way. For ideological reasons, evolutionists, however, do not
accept this fact, clear evidence of which is before their eyes. To avoid
accepting the existence of God, they believe in nonsensical scenarios,
the impossibility of which they are also convinced of.
In his book "Evolution: A Theory in
Crisis," about the invalidity of the theory of evolution, renowned
molecular biologist Prof. Michael Denton explains the unreasonable
conviction of Darwinists:
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 one thousand 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!
Indeed, Darwinism is nothing but a
totally unreasonable, superstitious belief. Anyone with any reason would
see the evidence for that great fact by looking at DNA, or any other
part of the universe. Human beings and all living things are created by
God, the All-Mighty, Who is the Lord of all the worlds.
The RNA World
The discovery in the 70s that the
gasses originally existing in the primitive world atmosphere rendered
amino acid synthesis impossible was a big blow to the molecular
evolutionary theory. It then was understood that "primitive atmosphere
experiments" of evolutionists such as Miller, Fox and Ponnamperuma were
invalid. For this reason, in the 80s new evolutionist attempts were put
forth. As a result, the scenario of the "RNA World" was advanced, which
proposed that it was not the proteins that were formed first, but RNA
molecules that contained the information for the proteins.
According to this scenario advanced
by Walter Gilbert, a chemist from Harvard in 1986, billions of years ago
an RNA molecule that somehow managed to self-replicate, formed by
coincidence. Then this RNA molecule started to produce proteins being
activated by external effects. Thereafter, it became necessary to store
this information in a second molecule, and somehow the DNA molecule
emerged.
Being made up of a chain of
impossibilities in each and every stage, this hardly imaginable scenario
only magnified the problem and brought up many inextricable questions
rather than providing any explanation for the origin of life:
1. When it is impossible to explain
the coincidental formation of even one of the nucleotides making up RNA,
how can it be possible for these imaginary nucleotides to form RNA by
coming together in a proper sequence? Evolutionist biologist John Horgan
admits the impossibility of the chance formation of RNA as follows;
As researchers continue to examine
the RNA-world concept closely, more problems emerge. How did RNA arise
initially? RNA and its components are difficult to synthesize in a
laboratory under the best of conditions, much less under plausible ones.
2. Even if we suppose that it formed
by chance, how could this RNA made up of simply a nucleotide chain have
"decided" to self-replicate and with what kind of a mechanism could it
have carried out this self-replicating process? Where did it find the
nucleotides it used while self-replicating? Even evolutionist
microbiologists Gerald Joyce and Leslie Orgel express the desperateness
of the situation in their book titled "In the RNA World":
This discussion... has, in a sense,
focused on a straw man:the myth of a self-replicating RNA molecule that
arose de novo from a soup of random polynucleotides. Not only is such a
notion unrealistic in light of our current understanding of prebiotic
chemistry, but it should strain the credulity of even an optimist's view
of RNA's catalytic potential.9
3. Even if we suppose that there was a
self-replicating RNA in the primordial world, that numerous amino acids
of every type ready to be used by RNA were available and that all of
these impossibilities somehow took place, the situation still does not
lead to the formation of even a single protein. For RNA only includes
information concerning the structure ofproteins. Amino acids, on the
other hand, are raw materials. Nevertheless, no mechanism exists to
produce proteins. To consider the existence of RNA sufficient for
protein production is as nonsensical as expecting a car to be
self-assembled and self-manufactured by simply throwing its design drawn
on paper on thousands of its parts piled upon each other. In this case,
too, production is out of the question since no factory or workers are
involved in the process.
A protein is produced in the ribosome
factory with the help of many enzymes and as a result of extremely
complex processes within the cell. Ribosome is a complex cell organelle
made up of proteins. Therefore, this situation also brings up another
unreasonable supposition that ribosome, too, should have come into
existence by chance at the same time. Even Nobel prize winner Jacques
Monod, who is one of the most fanatical defenders of evolution, explains
that protein synthesis can by no means be underestimated so as to
depend merely on the information in the nucleic acids:
The code is meaningless unless
translated. The modern cell's translating machinery consists of at least
fifty macromolecular components which are themselves coded in DNA: the
code cannot be translated otherwise than by products of translation. It
is the modern expression of omne vivum ex ovo. When and how did this
circle become closed? It is exceedingly difficult to imagine.
How could an RNA chain in the
primordial world take such a decision and what methods could it have
employed to realize protein production by undertaking the job of fifty
specialized particles only on its own? Evolutionists have no answer to
these questions.
Dr. Leslie Orgel, one of the
associates of Stanley Miller and Francis Crick from the University of
San Diego California, uses the term "scenario" for the possibility of
"the origination of life through the RNA world". Orgel described what
kind of features this RNA had to have and how impossible this was in her
article titled "The Origin of Life" published in American Scientist in
October 1994:
This scenario could have occured, we
noted, if prebiotic RNA had two properties not evident today: A capacity
to replicate without the help of proteins and an ability to catalyze
every step of protein synthesis.
As should be clear, to expect these
two complex and extremely essential processes from a molecule like RNA
is only possible by an evolutionist's power of imagination and
viewpoint. Concrete scientific facts, on the other hand, make it
explicit that the thesis of the "RNA World", which is a new model
proposed for the chance formation of life, is an equally implausible
fable.
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