Footnote to previous post, "The Creator":

"We have travelled far from the formation of the first amino acids that scientists believe were polymerized billions of years ago to where we are today, with complex systems that provide us with sight, smell, taste and touch."

The twelve types of left-handed amino acids that occur 288 times in a protein molecule can be arranged in 10 to the power of 300 ways, but only one arrangement linked by peptide bonds is viable--some proteins contain chains of thousands of amino acids--whilst the tiniest bacteria, Mycoplasma Hominis H39, contains 600 types of protein. A single human cell is made up of nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, as well as two-hundred thousand types of protein. The DNA gene responsible for controlling a single protein made up of 288 amino acids would have around 1000 nucleotides in its chain, which could occur in 41,000 forms because DNA contains four types of nucleotide--the probable formation of such a nucleotide in the correct sequence is one in 10 to the power of 600.