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Yahya - Justice and Tolerance in the Qur'an (2003)

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JUSTICE AND TOLERANCE IN THE OUR'AN<br />

(am<strong>in</strong>o acids) present <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> structure of prote<strong>in</strong>s.<br />

Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that<br />

this experiment, which was <strong>the</strong>n presented as <strong>an</strong> import<strong>an</strong>t<br />

step <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> name of evolution, was <strong>in</strong>valid, <strong>the</strong> atmosphere<br />

used <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> experiment hav<strong>in</strong>g been very different from real<br />

earth conditions. 54<br />

After a long silence, Miller confessed that <strong>the</strong> atmosphere<br />

medium he used was unrealistic. 55<br />

All <strong>the</strong> evolutionist efforts put forth throughout <strong>the</strong><br />

twentieth century to expla<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> orig<strong>in</strong> of life ended with<br />

failure. The geochemist Jeffrey Bada from S<strong>an</strong> Diego Scripps<br />

Institute accepts this fact <strong>in</strong> <strong>an</strong> article published <strong>in</strong> Earth<br />

Magaz<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> 1998:<br />

Today as we leave <strong>the</strong> twentieth century, we still face <strong>the</strong><br />

biggest unsolved problem that we had when we entered <strong>the</strong><br />

twentieth century: How did life orig<strong>in</strong>ate on Earth? 56<br />

The Complex Structure of Life<br />

The primary reason why <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory of evolution ended<br />

up <strong>in</strong> such a big impasse about <strong>the</strong> orig<strong>in</strong> of life is that even<br />

<strong>the</strong> liv<strong>in</strong>g org<strong>an</strong>isms deemed <strong>the</strong> simplest have <strong>in</strong>credibly<br />

complex structures. The cell of a liv<strong>in</strong>g be<strong>in</strong>g is more complex<br />

th<strong>an</strong> all of <strong>the</strong> technological products produced by m<strong>an</strong>.<br />

Today, even <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> most developed laboratories of <strong>the</strong> world,<br />

a liv<strong>in</strong>g cell c<strong>an</strong>not be produced by br<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>org<strong>an</strong>ic<br />

materials toge<strong>the</strong>r.<br />

The conditions required for <strong>the</strong> formation of a cell are too<br />

great <strong>in</strong> qu<strong>an</strong>tity to be expla<strong>in</strong>ed away by co<strong>in</strong>cidences. The<br />

probability of prote<strong>in</strong>s, <strong>the</strong> build<strong>in</strong>g blocks of cell, be<strong>in</strong>g<br />

syn<strong>the</strong>sized co<strong>in</strong>cidentally, is 1 <strong>in</strong> 10 950 for <strong>an</strong> average

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