| DNA Challenges Coincidence
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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.2
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 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'.
The probability of the coincidental formation
of the code of an average protein in the human
body in the DNA by itself is 1 in 10600.
We can write this number which is formed by
putting 600 zeros next to 1 as follows:
10600 =
1, 000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000
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Think of the site you are reading right now. How would
you regard someone who claimed that letters (by using
a different printing stamp for every letter) have come
together by chance on their own to form this writing?
It is evident that it was written by an intelligent
and conscious person. This is no different from the
status of DNA.
Francis Crick |
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."3
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.
2 Frank B. Salisbury,
"Doubts about the Modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution",
American Biology Teacher, September 1971, p. 336. 
3 Francis Crick, Life Itself: It's Origin
and Nature, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1981, p. 88.
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