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In A Nut Shell …
Scientists have disproven the “primordial soup” concept for the origin of life despite what it says in textbooks. They’ve also disproven the concept that complex life took billions of years to develop from that primordial soup, the theory that life started in volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean and the science fiction dream of life arrived on earth from outer space.
Explaining the origin of life requires an explanation for the origin of the cell. Yet scientists have also proven it was impossible for chance interactions among early earth chemicals and molecules to create the cell and its building blocks.
The fact is, building blocks in the cell and the cell itself, were designed and created with a purpose – to support life. Furthermore, anytime we see something designed and created for a purpose, we know with 100% certainty that is was designed by an intelligent being. The only intelligent being who can create such a design at a molecular level within every cell within every living organism is God.
Key Take-Away: We can be 100% sure that God created life because only God can design and create the cell and its building blocks at a molecular level within every cell within every living organism.
Included below
… are summaries from all the articles in God Created Life. Taken together they prove that God exists and God created life on earth.
Key Insights From How Did Live Begin?
The articles in this section provide an overview of the prevailing theories for how life started on earth. Here are the key conclusions from those articles:
- The theory that life began in a pond of “Primordial Soup” began with predictions from Darwin, Oparin and Haldane
- The Miller Urey experiment in 1952 validated a core element of that theory by easily producing amino acids, key building blocks for life, from basic compounds and energy
- This hugely important experiment initiated origin of life science based on chemistry
- Subsequent research has disproven the traditional pond of primordial soup theory
- The sun’s UV light would have been destructive to key molecules, organic compounds and early life
- Oxygen in the atmosphere would have corrupted the creation of amino acids
- Some scientists theorize that the building blocks of life could have been created in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean – away from UV light and free oxygen
- The evidence for this is found in genes that are common across the span of life on earth
- Other scientists disagree and have other theories
- One such theory (called panspermia) has life arriving on earth from elsewhere in space
- As with the Primordial Soup theory, there are many issues with the alternate explanations for the origin of life – based on chemical processes and random chance – that make them equally implausible
- All the explanations from science rely heavily on random chance and luck. Relying on luck is a poor excuse for science. There are no facts or evidence to back up a hypothesis for relying on “we’re just that lucky”
Key Takeaway: Scientists have disproven the Primordial Soup theory, the hydrothermal vent theory and the life-from-outer-space theory. Some scientists have started to claim life started by random chance and luck. Relying on luck is a poor excuse for science. There are no facts nor evidence for “we’re just that lucky”. We can do better.
There are 2 articles on this topic leading to these conclusions. If you haven’t read them yet, click here to read the first short one.
Key Insights From Seeing God In The Cell
- Scientists actually have no idea how life was created and have made little progress since the Miller Urey experiment in 1952 – despite the misleading articles published by reputable sources
- Renowned chemist, Dr. James Tour makes this last point based on his assessment of origin of life research
- Tour also points out that the cell is an amazing factory filled with amazing microscopic machines
- An outstanding video shows some of these machines in action during the cell division process. That video is a Must See! It’s truly mind boggling!
- Another excellent video shows six micro machines used in the process of creating a new protein from a chain containing hundreds of amino acids, the sequence which helps determine its function
- How do those six complex micro machines, operating at a microscopic level, know what to do, when and where – all in the proper sequence – to take the protein through the the complex steps of its manufacturing process?
- This process is incredibly fine tuned to support life, is very compelling evidence for design and is evidence of design by God
- Proteins are incredibly important microscopic components in every cell in every living organism. They perform most of the important functions within the cell
- Each cell contains several thousand different proteins that perform a wide variety of functions including fighting infections, enabling key chemical reactions, creating the cell structure and more
- Proteins are built from combinations of 20 amino acids and used to create 100,000 different proteins
- Amino acids are arranged into chains like letters can be arranged into words and sentences. The amino acid strings are then folded into a very specific 3 dimensional shape
- The protein’s function is determined by the amino acids in the chain along with its 3 dimensional shape
- The simplest cell contains 300 different proteins
- Micro machines and the complexity of amino acids and proteins are just the first glimpses into how real science can be used to prove God created life
Key Takeaway: To answer the question of how life began we must determine how the first cell was created. And, to determine how the first cell was created, we must look inside the cell and see how it functions. What we find there is truly amazing! In the last few decades, scientists have uncovered an unbelievable world of micro machines and processes that you have to see to believe. We begin to see the hand of God as we dive into the protein, one of the key building blocks in the cell.
There are 2 articles on this topic leading to these conclusions. If you haven’t read them yet, click here to read the first short one.
Key Insights From Proof That God Created The Protein
- Explaining the origin of life requires an explanation for how the first cell was created
- Proteins are the work horses within the cell performing most of the important functions
- Explaining the origin of the cell requires explaining how the protein was created
- Proteins are made of 50 to 800 amino acids arranged in a sequential chain with a rough average between 250 and 375 amino acids
- There are ~10,000 different types of proteins in a cell and 42 million overall per cell
- It’s impossible for the chain of amino acids in a protein to have been created by chance
- The probability of this is one chance in 10164 based on research from Dr. Douglas Axe plus insights from Stephen Meyer who examined the improbability of creating a string of 150 amino acids
- An accompanying video shows it’s impossible for a string of amino acids to be created by chance during the entire existence of the universe
- What if we got lucky and overcame to odds? Would we have life? No, we’d have just one lone protein. A typical cell has over 300 proteins. And that’s in just one cell
- Meyer calculates the overall probability of creating the amino acid chains for 250 proteins in one cell by accident is one chance in 1041,000. Again, completely impossible.
- There are no facts or evidence to justify a claim that short proteins grew into the longer proteins we see today and implicitly in the fossil record; very advanced proteins are needed to perform all the very basic functions of every cell in every living organism. If shorter ones could do the job then longer ones would not be needed and would not be present in the cell
- The amino acid chain in a protein is also folded into a precise, finely tuned 3 dimensional shape
- The amino acid series AND its 3 dimensional shape determine the protein’s function in the cell
- A set of videos present accurate illustrations of how combinations of proteins enable key functions within the cell. They are amazing Must See videos!
- A well known issue, called the Protein Folding Problem, describes a lack of understanding about how a string of amino acids folds into a 3 dimensional shape to become a protein
- Cyrus Levinthal helped determined that a string of 150 amino acids has ~10142 possible configurations. Even if the amino acids perform 1 trillion random folds per second, only 1030 configurations would be tested in the entire span of time since the Big Bang
- It’s clear there isn’t enough time in the universe for thousands of different protein combinations found in enzymes, micro machines and other cell components to fold by random chance and then come together in a cell to form the multi-step “dances” or processes that they implement to perform their functions
- The Protein is a finely tuned chains of amino acids AND it’s folded into an equally fine tuned 3 dimensional shape
- Science has found no physics, chemistry, biology or any other shred of evidence that can explain the origin of even one protein comprised of a simple chain of amino acids folded into a precise, finely tuned 3 dimensional shape – despite 50 years of trying
Proof That God Created The Protein
- Just like it’s impossible to create a useful chain of 150 amino acids by accident, it’s also impossible to create a meaningful sentence of 150 letters and spaces by accident; the probability is roughly one chance in 10214
- But a protein is also folded into a precisely tuned 3 dimensional shape as if you found a finely tuned 150 character sentence written on a piece of paper AND that piece of paper was folded into an finely tuned origami swan
- We are 100% sure that, when we see a meaningful sentence of 150 letters and spaces written on a piece of paper that’s folded into an origami swan, it’s a fact some intelligent person created that sentence on that paper and folded it into a meaningful shape.
- We can be equally sure that, when we see even one simple protein comprised of 150 amino acids arranged in a very specific, finely tuned order and then folded into a very specific and meaningful 3D shape, it’s a fact some intelligent being created that protein.
- Only God was capable of creating the first such beautiful, finely tuned folded “swan”at a microscopic level within a cell
- Only God could do that in 10,000 different configurations each performing a specific and important function within a cell at a microscopic level
- Only God could do that across 42 million proteins at a microscopic level within every cell in every living organism on the planet
- It’s irrefutable: God created the protein found in all cells in all living organisms! It’s a fact!
Key Takeaway: Proteins perform most of the important functions in a cell and are made up of finely tuned chains of amino acids folded into finely tuned 3 dimensional shapes. Scientists have proven that it’s impossible for even the first simple protein to have been created by random chance interactions yet science has no other possible explanation. We can now be 100% sure that God created the first beautiful, finely tuned chain of amino acids that folded into an equally fine-tuned 3 dimensional protein.
There are 2 articles on this topic leading to these conclusions. If you haven’t read them yet, click here to read the first short one.
Key Insights From Proof That God Created Other Cell Building Blocks
- Cells have four components or building blocks: nucleic acids, amino acids, carbohydrates and lipids
- Carbohydrates are sugars, starches and other sources of energy that are transformed within the cell and used to power all cell functions
- Some carbohydrates are long chains of various sugar and other molecules strung together in complex arrangements similar to the amino acid chains in complex proteins
- The type and order of simple sugar molecules strung together is crucial to the ultimate use of each long, complex chain
- Sugars can bind together and form various configurations so the number of possible configurations reaches into the millions with just a few links in the chain
- The probability of such chains coming together, by chance in the early earth, to produce complex sugars needed for cellular functions is zero
- Long, complex sugar chains show signs of design and being finely tuned for a purpose
- There’s no known physics, chemistry or biology that can explain how these elaborate sets of sugar chains started in the early earth
- We know from other articles, when we see signs of finely tuned design, that it was created by an intelligent agent
- The only intelligence that can create such a design at a molecular level within every cell within every living organism is God
- Lipids are mostly used in a cell to form membranes including the outer cell membrane as well as membranes around important modules withing the cell
- Membranes hold the components of the cell together protecting them from damaged and from floating away
- Membranes have two layers formed by lipids continuously aligned together into sheets
- A membrane has two layers of lipids; in each layer the water-loving part of the lipid points out while the water-hating parts are on the inside of the membrane structure
- Two micro machines display evidence that God designed and created them for a purpose
- The nuclear pore complex is a full set of micro machines and process steps that enable importing material into the nucleus and the complementary set of machines and processes that enable exporting material out of the nucleus
- ATP synthase is a micro machine at the end of a long, elaborate process that converts glucose sugars into the ATP molecule that cell processes use for power
- Both micro machine processes are clear signs of design for a purpose
- There’s no known physics, chemistry or biology that can explain how these elaborate machines and processes started in the early earth
- We know from other articles, when we see signs of finely tuned design, that it was created by an intelligent agent
- The only intelligence that can create such a design at a molecular level within every cell within every living organism is God
Findings From Recent Research
Two recent threads of cellular research have uncovered more proof that God created life on the early earth
- In one study, Brian Miller uses thermodynamics to prove it was impossible for random chance and natural processes to have created the first cell
- Miller uses the Evans-Searles Fluctuation Theorem to prove the probability of spontaneously forming a bacteria cell is less than 1 in 10109, a clear impossibility
- He uses the Crooks Theorem to conclude the probability of a cell absorbing sufficient heat from the environment to provide the needed increase in free energy for the origin of life is 1 in 101011, which is the same as in a system near equilibrium. Again, an impossibility
- Current cells use complex molecular machinery and finely tuned chemical networks to overcome this thermodynamic challenge today
- The other recent thread of cellular research to highlight here is one involving how proteins interact with themselves and other components in the cell
- Two structural biologists, Peter Tompa of Vrije Universiteit in Brussels and George Rose of Johns Hopkins University, extended the Levinthal folding problem to the network of interactions in a cell
- Tompa and Rose calculated the total number of possible unique interactions (“interactomes”) in a single yeast cell containing ~4,500 proteins to be 107.9 x 1010 or 1079,000,000,000
- “…the numbers preclude formation of a functional interactome by trial and error complex formation within any meaningful span of time. This numerical exercise…is tantamount to a proof that the cell does not organize by random collisions of its interacting constituents.“
- There’s no known physics, chemistry or biology that can explain how elaborate sets of interactions among proteins and other components started in early cells in the early earth nor how a cell can overcome the thermodynamic constraints of the early earth
- The cell and its interactions display clear signs of design; they were created for a specific purpose
- We know from other articles, when we see signs of design, we know it was created by an intelligent agent
- The only intelligence that can create such designs at a molecular level within every cell within every living organism is God
Key Takeaway: Like proteins, two other building blocks in the cell are also incredibly complex and precisely finely tuned: sugar molecules (carbohydrates) used to power cellular functions and cell membranes made up of components called lipids. And, like proteins, there’s no science to explain how these elaborate, finely tuned components were created on the early earth. Furthermore, scientists have uncovered the incredible, finely tuned configuration for how proteins interact with each other and the thermodynamic impossibility that early cells were created by chance. We can now be 100% sure that God created the all the components of the cell including carbohydrates, lipids, cell membranes, protein interactions and even the overall cell itself.
There are 2 articles on this topic leading to these conclusions. If you haven’t read them yet, click here to read the first short one.
Key Insights From Debunking “Protocells”
- There are many articles in the media and videos on YouTube stating that scientists are close to explaining how the first cell was created
- They do this by demonstrating simple experiments involving “protocells” – simple cells and processes that might have simulated how cells were formed on the early earth
- The issues is, while they make good headlines and produce dazzlingly simple explanations, they are highly misleading
- Dr. James Tour, a very prominent practicing scientist from Rice University, clearly demonstrates how these explanations for the origin of the cell are completely insufficient and nowhere near a viable explanation
- Tour cites the huge complexity of cell membranes, carbohydrates and interactomes to refute the conclusion that protocell research is close to explaining the origin of the cell
- Tour also uses a nice prototurkey analogy to make his point
- Bottom line is scientists are nowhere near explaining how the first cells were created
Key Takeaway: Many experiments and articles, designed to demonstrate that scientists are close to explaining the origin of early cells, make for great headlines but are, in fact, highly misleading. Renowned scientist, Dr. James Tour factually and colorfully refutes all such experiments and articles using the huge complexity of cell membranes, carbohydrates and protein interactions as evidence. Scientists are nowhere near explaining how the first cells were created. That’s because no science can overcome the overwhelming facts and evidence that prove God created the first cells and, indeed, life itself.
There is 1 article on this topic leading to these conclusions. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to read it.
In A Nut Shell … Reiterated
Scientists have disproven the “primordial soup” concept for the origin of life despite what it says in textbooks. They’ve also disproven the concept that complex life took billions of years to develop from that primordial soup, the theory that life started in volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean and the science fiction dream of life arrived on earth from outer space.
Explaining the origin of life requires an explanation for the origin of the cell. Yet scientists have also proven it was impossible for chance interactions among early earth chemicals and molecules to create the cell and its building blocks.
The fact is, building blocks in the cell and the cell itself, were designed and created with a purpose – to support life. Furthermore, anytime we see something designed and created for a purpose, we know with 100% certainty that is was designed by an intelligent being. The only intelligent being who can create such a design at a molecular level within every cell within every living organism is God.
Key Take-Away: We can be 100% sure that God created life because only God can design and create the cell and its building blocks at a molecular level within every cell within every living organism.