Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 371
ORIGIN OF LIFE – DIFFERENT THEORIES AND PROPOSITIONS constituent' by the universal code of life on earth. He further observes: . . . why the present set of 20 amino acids was chosen. Were there false starts, with genetic codes that specified different sets of amino acids, in lines of development that died out without a trace because they could not compete with the lines that survived?". The task of creating the most highly complex and precisely sequenced proteins, the essential material for building the bricks of life — DNA/RNA, out of the simple amino acids synthesized by Miller is a 'mission impossible'. Even if conceded that due to the interplay of limitless chances the molecules of DNA/RNA were finally synthesized, the dilemma remains far from being resolved. . Dickerson quotes the British scientist, J. D. Bernal to emphasize the problem at hand, by suggesting that the scenario of a single molecule of DNA, created by chance, “. . . generating the rest of life was put forward with slightly less plausibility than that of Adam and Eve in the Garden. ". Dickerson, during his summarization of the attendant problem highlights the difficulties inherent in the proposed solutions and suggests that the theorists actually rely on a wild, fantastic game of chance. But to that we shall return later. 360