The Origin Of Life
Mike Paulson on EVOLUTION (The Origin of Life)
The theory of evolution has a fatal flaw right at the beginning: it is impossible to account for the origin of life in the first place.
The popular notion of spontaneous generation was demolished by Louis Pasteur and others back in the nineteenth century, yet evolutionists still cling to the idea of “abiogenesis, ” the imaginary gradual development of complex molecules from basic elements until they finally become replicating molecules, which are then assumed to be living.
Despite much media-induced misunderstanding on this point, no replicating molecule has ever yet been synthesized from nonliving chemicals in the laboratory, despite multitudes of costly experiments attempting to do so.
Yet evolutionists imagine that what cannot be accomplished by trained scientists with costly equipment in artificially- controlled environments somehow occurred by blind chance a billion years ago. Some unknown process operating in an unknown liquid mixture beneath an unknown type of atmosphere somehow generated unknown primitive life forms from unknown chemicals, and that’s how life began!
However, life even at the simplest imaginary level is so complex that the chance for this to happen by accident is infinitesimally small.
The famous mathematical astrophysicist, Sir Fred Hoyle, recently argued that the probability this could have happened even once in the entire history of the universe is roughly equivalent to the probability that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard would assemble a Boeing 747.
Living organisms are known to be structured around a remarkable system called the DNA molecule (deoxyribonucleic acid), in which is encoded all the information necessary to direct the growth of the complete organism from the germ cell. Although the variational potential in the DNA molecule is extremely large, allowing a wide range of variation in any given type of plant or animal, it also serves to insure that such variation will be within the fixed limits represented in the genetic systems of the parents.
The tremendous amount of
ordered information in even the simplest living organism is so great that it is almost impossible to imagine that scientists could ever synthesize it from elemental chemicals, no matter how long they took, and even more inconceivable that it could ever happen by chance.
Even if a genetic code centered in the DNA molecule could ever arise by chance, it certainly could never happen more than once. Yet it has recently been found that there are several different genetic codes present in certain organisms, and all evidence indicates that each must have had a separate origin.
The intensive search for even the slightest traces of life on other planets or in interplanetary space reflects the wistful hope that evolutionary theory will be vindicated by evidence that life has also developed somewhere else in the universe. As yet, despite the space probes, giant telescopes, and even the UFO furor, the idea of extraterrestrial life remains science fiction and nothing more. There is not the slightest evidence of biological life as we understand it anywhere else in the universe.
The fact that almost all living flesh is composed of the same basic type of molecule (DNA), made up in turn of the same basic elements (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, ans so on) found in the earth is of course a definite confirmation of Scripture. The Bible states plainly that both plants (Genesis 1:11-12) and animals (Genesis 1:20, 24) were “brought forth” from the earth and its waters, and that even man’s body was formed of “the dust of the ground” (Genesis 2:7).
However, the fact that there was a life principle that was not inherent in these basic substances is also stressed in the case of both animals (“living creatures, ” Genesis 1:24) and man (“living soul,” 2:7), and there is not the slightest evidence that future scientists will ever be able to synthesize anything corresponding to a “living soul, ” nor that natural processes ever accomplished any such thing in the past.
Of course, from the standpoint of the evolutionists, it is necessary to postulate some form of spontaneous generation or abiogenesis, for otherwise they would have to assume a creator. Thus, they continue to believe in a naturalistic origin of life by sheer blind faith and against infinite odds, not by scientific evidence at all.
My comment: If evolutionists put as much objectivity and faith in the Bible as the do in their theory of evolution, there would be no need for this discussion today because their evidence is presented almost totally on BLIND FAITH.