Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 396
THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF CLAY. AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN EVOLUTION. It could not have happened merely by the chance interplay of all the necessary factors which could make this apparent impossibility possible without the supervision of experienced scientists. Such scientists needed a most advanced laboratory apparatus without which they could not have achieved any success, while the paradox quoted above is known to have happened outside any controlled conditions. Those who conducted the said experiments did so with reference to a similar paradox, which concerns selfreplication of RNA without the essential presence of proteins and enzymes which it has to produce itself. But they had to admit that their success was no success indeed, in relation to the paradox which they attempted to resolve. . Horgan confesses that these scientific experiments are too complicated to represent a plausible scenario for the origin of life. 'You have to get an awful lot of things right and nothing wrong" is the admission of Orgel who conducted these experiments. What he and Horgan agree upon is that their success under strict laboratory conditions does not prove anything happening under open conditions which prevailed before the origin of life. J. Szostak separately conducted similar experiments successfully but again under strictly controlled laboratory conditions. . Harold P. Klein of Santa Clara University expresses his doubt in the following words: 6 . . . it is almost impossible to imagine how it happened. '10. We only object to the word almost. Instead he should have clearly confessed it was absolutely impossible without the existence of God. 385