In the battle of worldviews, it all comes down to one issue. God, or no god?
In science, this issue manifests itself in the study of origins. But when you cut God out of the picture, you are left with one option: somehow, life created itself. Have secular scientists backed themselves into a corner? Let’s find out.
The idea of life creating itself is called abiogenesis. The widely accepted view is that life sprang from non-life in a pool of chemicals 3.8 billion years ago.
Amino acids are the building blocks of life. When strung together, these chemical compounds are called proteins, which make up living things. Proteins vary in size, averaging 300-500 amino acids each. Some may have as few as 50 or as many as tens of thousands, depending on their size.
There are over 500 known types of amino acids, and only 20 are used to build proteins. Amino acids also are assembled in two different shapes. They are called Right-Handed or Left-Handed because they roughly resemble a human hand. Each of these assemblies are made the same components but are arranged differently . They are mirror images of each other, with the “thumb” of one hand on the right and of the other on the left. Organic proteins only ever contain L-amino acids (left handed).
Now that we understand the building blocks of life, lets dive in.
In 1953 Stanley Miller and Harold Urey used water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen in an attempt to mimic the atmosphere of the early earth. These gasses do not react to each other under usual conditions so they used an electric spark to mimic lightning. The result of the chemical reaction was the production of amino acids.
The purpose of this experiment was, not to create life, but to show how amino acids could have formed on the early earth. This experiment is often promoted as evidence for abiogenesis in textbooks.
But there are several problems with this experiment.
First of all, they left very little up to chance. They carefully selected which gasses to include in a closed system. They purposefully introduced energy in the form of electricity. They also collected their amino acids away from the environment they were formed in to protect them from the harsh conditions.
Second, their experiment produced a mixture of left- and right- handed amino acids, which tend to bond together. This is hostile to life.
Thirdly, how could they have known what the atmosphere was composed of billions of years ago? They chose their chemicals based on the assumption that the early earth’s atmosphere had little or no free oxygen. This was the prevailing scientific theory at the time, because it is known that Oxygen destroys amino acids. So their selection of gasses was based on the assumption that evolution is true!
But the ozone layer is made of oxygen. If there was no oxygen in the early earth’s atmosphere, then nothing would stop the sun’s ultraviolet rays from destroying any biological molecules. This is the biogenesis “Catch-22”. Oxygen: no life. No Oxygen: no life.
This leads some scientists to propose that life originated underwater. But water splits molecules apart, so that theory has to go.
So evolutionists seem to have hit a roadblock. But does that stop them? No sir. And why would it? Atheism is their worldview, the foundation of their thinking and beliefs. As Jesus says in Matthew 13:14-15:
“In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will keep on hearing, but will not understand; you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive; For the heart of this people has become dull, with their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes, otherwise they would see with their eyes, hear with their ears and understand with their heart and return and I would heal them.”
This leads atheists to bend over backwards to dismiss laws of science in their arguments. Laws of science are a summarization of our best understanding of the world and how it works. These laws have never been violated or contradicted in our observation.
The observation that life always arises from pre-existing life is called biogenesis. Scientists brush this law under the rug by saying that conditions were different millions of years ago. They may well have been suited for abiogenesis. They have no proof for this and it is simply a use of the special pleading fallacy.
But they cannot claim ignorance. Romans 1:20 says:
“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”
If it is obvious that there is a Creator God, then why do they deny his existence? Psalm 14:1-3 says:
“The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek after God. All have turned away, they have together become corrupt, there is no one who does good, not even one.”
But what hope is there if the human condition is so depraved? Romans 5:8:
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”
Jesus Christ died for sinful men so that we, who once were His enemies, could turn to Him and be reconciled to God. It is only then that our hearts will be changed and our sight will be restored and we will see the world as it truly is. Jesus is the answer to fixing our worldview.
Sources and Further Research:
Can Natural Processes Explain the Origin of Life? – https://answersingenesis.org/origin-of-life/can-natural-processes-explain-the-origin-of-life/
You Can’t Do That: Three Ways Evolution Violates Basic Science! – https://answersingenesis.org/evolution/three-ways-evolution-violates-basic-science/
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