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With Jesus Section 10, Chapter 2 DNA
Confirms How Complex Is the DNA Molecule? Evolutionary scientists have performed controlled experiments to try and demonstrate the creation of DNA and RNA by chance. One of these scientists was H. Fakhrai.362/295-302 He produced a string of as many as twelve nucleotides using metal catalysts. The problem however with his experiments are that what he produced could never be produced under primitive earth conditions (see Chapter 3) or under any natural conditions. They are also unstable with the presence of water. Also he used phosphorimidazolides which are totally irrelevant to the origin of life. The nucleotides in DNA and RNA are linked together through 3'-5' linkages. In Fakhrai’s work they were linked both 3'-5' and 2'-5'. They also produced short chains consisting only of either the nucleotide of guanine or adenine. Mixed DNA molecules were not produced. Their experiment also did not produce polynucleotides of the pyramidine: cytosine and thiamine. No protein-like polypeptide has ever been produced. Also these experiments produced both D- and L-forms of the amino acids. Just one D-amino acid in a protein obliterates all biological activity. It is not enough to have the chance formation of nucleotides to produce life. The presence of DNA in itself does not produce life. The DNA molecule requires a mechanism to then read its genetic code of instructions which must tell it how it needs to proceed. Proceed to do what, one might ask, since according to evolutionists these are simply chance formations of molecules? The instruction of DNA tells the mRNA how and what kind of protein to synthesize. Within the limits of the material universe, the primitive ocean had no intelligence to care anything about instructing what sequence was to be found in the DNA molecule. All the books in the world did not happen by chance. They were created by intelligent human beings for instruction to carry out logical purposes; but if there was no human being on the earth, all the books in the world would be worthless and mean nothing and would produce nothing. The existence of DNA chains, as we are talking about here, are as worthless (more worthless because they are random) for a purpose as the existence of books without humans to use them to bring about a purpose. Without an intelligent creator to take DNA molecules and apply the necessary specific energy to them to carry out a logical purpose, they are worthless molecules floating around in a non-personal ocean of water. Also the rate of destruction of these chance molecules is far greater than there production for any meaningful purpose to ever happen in a chance environment. Then there is the fact that DNA molecules in a living cell are double stranded. Double stranded molecules floating around in a dead ocean are unstable and rapidly deteriorate. When these experimenters produce these single strand molecules of only about 12 random nucleotides (DNA in a living cell have billions and billions of specific arranged nucleotides for purposeful instruction) they are careful not to store them in water for this reason. They seal them under nitrogen in a deep freeze, not at room temperature. Even under these conditions the chemical bonds are unstable and slowly rupture ending any possibility of further needed development of any kind of biological activity which is trillions of light years away from this development. Specific instructional energy, talked about in the next chapter, is also needed in the cell to tell the DNA molecule what it wants to accomplished in the cell for the building of proteins for a specific purpose and for reproduction of the cell itself. Where did the by chance specific energy come from to take these random molecules of DNA and use them for a specific intelligent purpose? Where did the nucleoside phosphates required for production of DNA come from? Where did the highly specific enzymes required come from? Twenty specific types of enzymes are required for DNA synthesis in a living cell. To split apart a double stranded DNA molecule requires 80-90o temperatures. This did not exist in our primitive oceans. Assuming the oceans did reach these temperatures, after the double-stranded molecule of DNA separated, what held these molecules stable in these temperatures until another complementary strand could be produced? Next, going from simple DNA molecules to more complex DNA molecules needed for life is an incredibly much more complex leap from what we have already talked about. What linked the DNA molecule for protein synthesis in this primordial soup? This requires specific amino acids to tell a specific part of the DNA to synthesis the specific mRNA for the specifically desired protein synthesis. This requires specific controlled energy, a supply of the pyramidine and purine triphosphates and several enzymes. Where did the Ribosomes come from needed to utilize this mRNA to produce the specific protein? The Ribosome molecule itself consists of three different RNA molecules and fifty-five different protein molecules. A specific tRNA synthetase for each amino acid recognizes that specific amino acid and its specific tRNA and catalyzes the union of the amino acid with its tRNA. The tRNA, with its attached amino acid, moves to the site of protein synthesis. The tRNA locates its proper place on the mRNA. Enzymes catalyze the union of the amino acid to the growing protein chain, breaks the bond between the amino acid and its tRNA, releases the tRNA from the mRNA, and eventually releases the completed protein chain. Back to
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