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Evidence That Demands a Creator

Mike Riddle
Institute for Creation Research

www.icr.org

Three Areas of Origins

• Cosmological (origin of the universe)

• Chemical (origin of life)

• Biological (origin of new species – Darwinian evolution)

• The Issue

  • Evolution

    • 4.6 billion years ago the earth formed

    • Chemicals formed in the “primordial soup”

    • Chemicals bonded together to form molecules

    • Molecules bonded together to make a living cell

    • Time + chance = life

  • Creation

• Colossians 1:16
• God created all life

• Some terminology: Biology made easy

• Atoms: basic unit of matter
• Molecules: specific arrangement of atoms
• Amino Acids: specific arrangement of molecules (H₂O)
• Proteins: specific arrangement of amino acids
• History of evolutionary thought
• Spontaneous generation
• Disproved by Louis Pasteur in 1862
• Renamed spontaneous generation to chemical evolution

Attempts to Create Life

• The Miller Experiment

• Textbooks

• Critical thinking: three things to analyze about the Miller experiment

  • How did Miller know what gases were in the atmosphere?

  • Does a design require a designer?

  • Were the amino acids the right type of amino acids for life?

• The Atmosphere

  • The claim by evolutionists: The early earth’s atmosphere did not contain oxygen.

  • Critical thinking question: Is there any scientific evidence to support this claim, or is it based on a belief in evolution?

  • The geologic evidence

• Design and Intelligence

  • Does a design require a designer

  • Miller used intelligent design

  • Miller used a “trap” door

• Evolution experiment requirements

  • Initial condition setup

  • Let the experiment run its course with NO interference

• Amino Acids

  • There are over 2,000 types of amino acids

  • Only 20 different kinds are used in life

  • Amino acids come in two shapes (left-handed and right-handed)

  • All amino acids used in proteins are left-handed

  • Collapse of the Miller experiment

• Origin of life and amino acids

  • William Bonner, Organic Chemist (“Terrestrial explanations are impotent and nonviable”)

  • Life cannot start in outer space

• The cell and complexity

  • More complex than computers

  • Boeing 747: 4 ½ million non-flying parts

  • Cell: billions of non-living parts

  • What makes an airplane fly and a cell alive?

• Probability and life

  • What are the chances of getting all heads every time I flip a penny?

  • The Law of Probability: 10⁵⁰

  • The probability of getting a small protein: 10¹⁹¹

  • The probability of getting a cell: 10^40,000

  • Francis Crick and the probability of life by chance: zero

  • Robert Gange and the probability of life by chance: zero

The Primordial Soup

• Chemistry: hydrolysis

• Biology: all amino acids in proteins are left-handed

• Physics: Second Law of Thermodynamics

Second Law of Thermodynamics

• Energy goes from a state of usable energy to a state of less usable energy for doing work in an isolated system

• Discussion between a creationist and an evolutionist

  • Open isolated system argument

  • Growth of a seed or animal embryo

• The rest of the story: 4 necessary conditions

  • An open system

  • An available source of energy (sun)

  • A way to capture and store the raw energy

  • An energy conversion mechanism

• Evolution and science: 4 things that are detrimental to the origin of life by natural means

  • Oxygen in the atmosphere

  • Second Law of Thermodynamics (time)

  • Water (hydrolysis)

  • Amino acids (design)

Information and Complexity

• Charles Darwin wrote a book in 1859 (The Origin of Species)

  • Evolution model: M + E + T = Life

  • Creation model: M + E + T + OI = Life

• Information and life

  • Werner Gitt, Ph.D., Physics

  • Klaus Dose, Ph.D., Biochemistry

  • Origin of life impossible

• Who believes in a six-day creation?

• One-third of evolution

Questions to Ask

• I read that all proteins used in life are left-handed. Since the natural tendency is always towards a mix of left- and right-handed, could you explain how life started?
• Since water breaks down the bonds between amino acids, how could life have started in the oceans?
• If we add energy from the sun to a newly dead animal (all the necessary parts and chemicals are there) it will not become alive. If this won’t happen, how can inorganic chemicals become alive?
• Have scientists ever created DNA or RNA in a laboratory? If not, then isn’t the origin of the molecules (and life) by natural processes just an unverified hypothesis?
• Doesn't biological change (Darwinian evolution) depend on life originating first? Since there is no observable (empirical science) for how life originated, then isn’t the model of evolution left without a foundation meaning it has to be accepted by faith?

Conclusion

• The origin of life by natural processes is not possible

§         All left-handed amino acids

§         There is not enough time

§         Life is too complex (information)

• The evidence demands a Creator God

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