How did life originate?
How did Life originate?
Category: Religion and Philosophy
From the complexity of humans to more supposed simple life forms, the single cell organism, how can life be created or is it even possible? Many adherents to abiogenesis will claim different theories such that life nearly emerged from self organization of matter, zap of lightning, in a theoretical primordial soup during Earth’s early prebiotic conditions. So, let’s review how likely it is that life could have sprang into existence without intelligent design using some of these models. But in order to discuss that we are going to review biochemistry 101 and go and explore one evolutionary step behind a single cell- the DNA and RNA.
In a single cell’s nucleus, there contains DNA, a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living
organisms and some viruses. The DNA molecules’ function is to store instructions use to construct cellular components such as RNA and protein that serves other functions
Chemically, DNA consists of two long polymers of simple units called nucleotides, with backbones made of sugars and phosphate groups joined by ester bonds. These two strands run in opposite directions to each other and are therefore anti-parallel. Attached to each sugar is one of four types of molecules called bases. It is the sequence of these four bases along the backbone that encodes information. This information is read using the genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The code is read by copying stretches of DNA into the related nucleic acid RNA, in a process called transcription.
Problem #1 Chicken or the Egg?….
Now, protein is used to create DNA and RNA but that introduces a few problems. In order to make proteins you need DNA, but in order to make DNA, you need proteins, thus the “chicken and the egg problem”. They would a have to occur simultaneously.
Problem #2 Where did the information in DNA come from?
Some scientist and atheists claim that information in DNA was born out of accidental and randomness of self organization. But here’s a huge challenge to that. The bases in DNA act as a 4 letter alphabet. Now as we know, letters in an alphabet have no meaning and represent nothing unless it is coupled together to form a sentence which are specifically arranged to create a paragraph which now have informational meaning! That is exactly how the bases in DNA work. Now picture this, 1 DNA contains more information than an entire encyclopedia!!!
Information always requires a sender and a receiver, an encoding/decoding mechanism, and a convention of symbols. That is consistent in all areas of life. Now what if you came across writings in a beach that spell out “Tom and Mary was here”…Would you assume that someone (messenger) wrote that message out to someone (receiver) or would you assume that it was out of randomness?? The bases in DNA act like a software program. But everyone knows that even with software it still requires a programmer. What or who? But we know that only a mind can create information. The materials that carry information is independent on information itself. It’s the information that actually makes the molecules into something that actually functions. Information is habitually connected to intelligent activity.
A. DNA/RNA is a code, language, protocol….
B. Every code, language, protocol comes from a mind (This is totally 100% consistent with observation)….
C. Therefore DNA must come from a mind….
You create information every time you talk to somebody. The creation of information begins with a desire, which lead to an idea, which you express in words, which you break down into sounds and letters when you speak or write, in that order. The way you and I design a paper airplane or a car, or remodel a kitchen is no different. In other words, language and design are always a top-down mental processes – not something that nature does “bottom up.” –Cosmic Fingerprints.
Well what about self ordering and pattern (amino acids attracted to each other)? Well here is a problem with that. If A was attracted to G it would produce A-G-A-G-A-G and you wouldn’t get a message. They work like alphabets acting like letters to create words which creates sentences. You need irregularities and variety to form
informational sequences which once again, a mind can only create. The laws of
nature describe only patterns, repetition, and regularities. Also, there is no attraction or bonding between individual letters (bases themselves). The bases are interchangeable. As for patterns, there are chaotic things such tornadoes, stalagmites, and snowflakes that are unaided and occur naturally. However, all patterns have design but not all design have patterns such as language, maps, binary programs, literature, and music. They all have properties of intelligence behind them.
Problem #3: A pre-biotic soup?
Stanley Miller demonstrated in 1953 that mixtures of reducing gases, thought to be present in the primordial earth, when subjected to electrical discharges, produced many organic compounds, including several amino acids. Problem with Stanley Miller’s project- first of all that prebiotic soup is talked about like it actually existed even though there is no evidence at all or even any traces of it! Just because he managed to create a few amino acids, those amino acids reacted immediately to the environment forming a sludge. Those amino acids would have to be contained against the environment before further reactions would permit it to take on life friendly direction. Also, he only managed to create both left handed strands and right handed strands when life’s composition require exclusively left handed. Even though proteins could be synthesized with the manipulation of amino acids, it would still require a method to replicate them. No model could be proposed which would explain inclusion of only one form of amino acids to the exclusion of the other, without the aid of RNA’s, in the form of ribosomal RNA (rRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), and messenger RNA (mRNA). All models would require the spontaneous evolution of both RNA’s and proteins simultaneously. In addition, specific proteins are required in combination with rRNA in order for other proteins to be synthesized. Even if this ancient prebiotic soup existed, there would’ve been a nitrogen rich atmosphere because amino acids are nitrogenous but it comes out to be that the earth was 15% nitrogen. The window for this theoretical soup to exist is very, very slim and guess how much evidence we have that it existed? There are NONE!!
Problem #4 Early Earth’s atmosphere model:
A. Pyrimidine nucleosides (cytosine and uracil) do not form under prebitic conditions and only purine (adenine and guanine) nucleosides are found in carbonaceous meteorites. However, pyrimidine nucleosides do not form in outer space.
B. Even if a method for pyrimidine formation could be found, the combination with phosphate under prebiotic conditions, also produce other products that interfere with RNA polymerization and replication.
C. Purine and pyramidine nucleotides do not form under prebiotic conditions.
D. the first RNA could not exist without enzymes and was four times longer. Plus it could only replicate 16 base pairs at most which makes it unable to replicate itself.
E. Enzymes and amino acids can not form under the presence of oxygen which was known to have been present 500 million years before the first life form.
Problem #5 Difficulty creating just 1 protein
DNA choreographs the manufacturing of amino acids to assemble together to create proteins to that fold the exact way to manufacture biological system There is a simple molecule threshold and that is having a tertiary structure, a level of folding that a molecule is suppose to have that is necessary to perform its function. To get that structure you need at least 75 amino acids and then you need the right bonds. You also need at least 1200 to 2000 bases to build on protein molecule. Also amino acids come in right handed or left handed versions, but you need to only get left handed ones. Last, the amino acids must link up to a specific sequence like letters in an alphabet and that’s only 1 protein molecule…the most simplest cell needs at least 300-500 protein molecules…That’s one in a trillion to the trillionth power chance of that ever happening! Plus all of this would have to be accomplished in a 100 million years between the Earth cooling to the first micro fossils found.
Problem #6: Give the possibility more time
Some objectors will state that given more time, the possibilities of life could be created! However, the second law of thermodynamics insist that nature has the tendency to head towards disorder not organization. So in effect, it means that more time would actually make the possibilities of life ever emerging more difficult. Its like saying that over time if I throw all pieces of scrabble over time I will produce Shakespear’s Hamlet.
What does our observation in the natural world tell us about biochemistry so far?
1. It is a biological fact that only life can originate from life. There must be a living parent to produce life.
2. Information comes from intelligence
3. Rearrangements of chemicals only produce a rearrangement to chemicals, not life.
4. we have NEVER witness or seen any life spontaneously pop up into existence through self assembly, and transform into an organized system through an unintelligent process naturally through random chance, intelligently controlled, or an
materialistic process that produced encoded information. Self organization,
chance, or natural processes do NOT have the casual power to create
information. There are no known physical laws which give molecules a natural
tendency to arrange themselves into such coded structures. ….
5. Even with controlled conditions in a lab with the most intelligent and skilled scientist, they still can not create life.
So there you you have it- the improbability that life sprang into existence unguided without intelligent design. The irony is that most atheist will vouch for “scientific method”. But scientific method calls for observation, testing, and retesting. We have never observe life out of non-life and our tests have all failed. So what you have left is logic and common sense, what science presupposes. The same method creationists uses. So far we are only left to 2 options: Either life was unguided with no creator or life was manged and created through a powerful intelligent design. I will leave that up to you to decide.
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