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What Caused Life to Come Into Existence?
PJ Media ^ | August 25, 2017 | Edward Watson

Posted on 08/25/2017 7:42:24 AM PDT by Raymond Pamintuan

It has become axiomatic that life naturally evolved out of nonliving materials billions of years ago. Given enough time and the chemical opportunity, living cells self-assemble.

However, the experts on the development of complex molecules from simpler ones, the synthetic chemists, do not know how this process actually occurs. There are no known pathways to create the components that make up a living cell from nonliving matter. They have no idea how amino acids (the building blocks of proteins and enzymes), nucleotides (the building blocks of DNA and RNA), saccharides (also called carbohydrates or sugars, the scaffolding for DNA and RNA, energy sources, and much more), and lipids (the main constituents of cell membranes) can be formed naturally on a prebiotic earth, especially before the formation of biological enzymes, to catalyze many of the requisite chemical reactions.

Life arising naturally out of nonliving materials not only cannot be proven, it contradicts synthetic chemistry’s practices, which comprise of very strict purity and environmental controls as well as experimental and sequential methodology—the exact opposite of what happens in nature—because contamination, water, sunlight, oxygen, heat, and impurities all degrade complex molecules or prevent them from forming.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abiogenesis; aliens; atheism; bigbang; god; life; magic; randomness
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To: Mark17

Just LOOK at that complex C-5!
And yet, it ain’t even alive.
‘Twas made by just men,
with rulers and pen.
‘Tis truth; I ain’t one to jive.


141 posted on 08/27/2017 1:10:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Moonman62
You make Christianity and Conservatism look bad.


All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

John 1:3

142 posted on 08/27/2017 1:12:26 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Yollopoliuhqui
They are sub virus protein molecules that can’t even be said to be alive, yet they are responsible for Mad Cow disease.

And arsenic molecules are dead elements; yet they'll kill ya.

143 posted on 08/27/2017 1:13:56 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mad_as_he$$

https://youtu.be/jQXhXAKHg9g


144 posted on 08/27/2017 1:18:52 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
 
 
 
John 9:6-7

After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.


Ain't it amazin' what a fella can do with some DIRT!!??!!

145 posted on 08/27/2017 1:22:36 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: imardmd1
o Eternal (everlasting) life

It seems to me that THIS would be a HECK of a lot easier to 'evolve' than the various methods of REPRODUCTION that are found on Earth!

146 posted on 08/27/2017 1:24:13 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Moonman62
You drive people away from religion and belief with your condescending attitude.

John 13:35
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

147 posted on 08/27/2017 1:25:06 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: daniel1212

You asked 8 questions here.

I wonder which ones were ON base?


148 posted on 08/27/2017 1:29:07 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
You've got a point there. But so far, one of the best areas we have achieved high marks in is the early effortless deaths of poor, innocent defenseless other humans.

The test cass of buffalo and passenger pigeons hav worked pretty wel . . . ( /sarc ).

149 posted on 08/27/2017 4:26:29 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Moonman62
You drive people away from religion and belief with your condescending attitude.

Ah, the self righteous attitude of some who attack the Biblical Christian teaching on creation, minimizing the supernatural of God and then attack those who challenge this premise as driving people away from religion.

One should be driven away from such religion as your posting supports in preference to that of Christ, who upheld special creation.

150 posted on 08/27/2017 5:51:18 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + folllow Him)
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To: Elsie

Yes, then each half grows back to the size of the “parent”, and the process repeats.


151 posted on 08/27/2017 5:55:35 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

that growing is sumpthin’; ain’t it!


152 posted on 08/27/2017 6:34:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Garth Tater

If time is infinite in both “directions” we would never get to today.


153 posted on 08/27/2017 6:36:40 PM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: NCLaw441

On no, we’d always be here because here is where we are. Late night physics bullsessions are the best. Especially once you graduate from beer to whiskey!


154 posted on 08/27/2017 6:39:13 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Elsie

That it is.


155 posted on 08/27/2017 7:03:16 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: BipolarBob
"Imagine this. We go to a planet and find a working computer with a complex program running it. is the first thing scientists postulate is that these materials just self assembled and started working on its own?"

I believe you just described DNA.
156 posted on 08/27/2017 7:07:32 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: daniel1212
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157 posted on 08/27/2017 7:18:56 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Elsie

Easy reply. Just like evolution, a change like that has never been observed. Thus, how can one make an accurate estimation of something never seen to function?

Secondly, there is no evolution organ in the body. No one has a clue what part of the body actually constructs or thinks up new blueprints. Instead, circular logic is used to say what is created proves it must have been created through evolution. Its just another way for people to escape acknowledging God, but they deceive only themselves.


158 posted on 08/28/2017 5:13:02 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: newgeezer
I mean, really, every self-proclaimed atheist should consider this: What do you think is the probability that the sun would be the right distance from our earth and the right size, and that the moon would also be the right size and at the right distance, such that they would appear to be EXACTLY the same size in the sky so as to reveal the sun's corona during a total solar eclipse? HMMM???

I wonder if anyone would even try to do that math. Maybe the geniuses who make global warming weather models could attempt that math. Should they factor in the probability of the right kind of star since most stars are the wrong kind of stars to support life. I doubt that we have managed to detect an earth sized planet 93ish million miles from the right kind of star.

They frankly don't know why planets exist so it gets pretty tricky to model probabilities of size and distance but that level if ignorance certainly doesn't stop global warming modelers.

159 posted on 08/28/2017 5:27:47 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: Elsie

;)


160 posted on 08/28/2017 8:21:13 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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