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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: Elsie

FWIW - I find “bedhead” to be attractive in a woman.
8^)


161 posted on 08/28/2017 8:54:38 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: proust

Sagan is dead and now knows the Truth, to his eternal damnation.


162 posted on 08/28/2017 11:54:14 AM PDT by tjd1454
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To: proust

He was blinded by his atheism, and misled many, but now he knows better, to his eternal shame.


163 posted on 08/28/2017 12:02:30 PM PDT by tjd1454
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To: DungeonMaster

Yes, pure chance will never create anything, given untold billions of years. It is the fatal flaw of evolution.


164 posted on 08/28/2017 6:34:46 PM PDT by tjd1454
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To: daniel1212; All

I stand with God, and with all those who stand with Him. God bless you.


165 posted on 08/28/2017 6:44:20 PM PDT by tjd1454
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To: jonno

My name is ELSIE; and I agree with that message.


166 posted on 08/28/2017 7:10:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: tjd1454

If we could just channel Brownian motion in the right direction...


167 posted on 08/28/2017 7:11:08 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: tjd1454
 
I distinctly ordered a Demon; not a GT!
 

168 posted on 08/28/2017 7:17:31 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: newgeezer

Have you considered the fact that the moon is gradually moving away from the earth. Millions of years ago, it would have appeared much larger in the sky. Millions of years in the future, it will appear much smaller. Perfect solar eclipses didn’t happen in the far past and won’t happen in the far future.


169 posted on 08/29/2017 2:47:24 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: Natufian

How’d we end up with a moon anyway?


170 posted on 08/29/2017 4:52:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Moon#2017


171 posted on 08/29/2017 8:37:05 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: Natufian

"One of the challenges to the longstanding theory of the collision, is that
a Mars-sized impacting body, whose composition likely would have differed
substantially from that of Earth, likely would have left Earth and the moon with
different chemical compositions, which they are not."
 
 
HMMMmmm...
 
 
Then this hit-and-run body would have EQUALLY mixed with Earth stuff and proto-moon stuff,
since both bodies are so similar.
or...
Every bit of the Unknown Collider would have vanished off into space somewhere.

172 posted on 08/29/2017 2:16:46 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

Yep, it’s called ‘there’s stuff we still don’t know’.


173 posted on 08/30/2017 12:18:48 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: Natufian
This has never slowed Man down.

He; like Nature; abhors a vacuum.

There MUST be a 'theory' for EVERYTHING; even if that means 4-5 of them do not quite fill the bill and conflict with each other.




Job 38   New International Version (NIV)

1 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:

“Who is this that obscures my plans
    with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man;
    I will question you,
    and you shall answer me.

 

 

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
    Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
    Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
    or who laid its cornerstone
while the morning stars sang together
    and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

 

 

31 “Can you bind the chains[b] of the Pleiades?
    Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons[c]
    or lead out the Bear[d] with its cubs?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
    Can you set up God’s[e] dominion over the earth?

 


174 posted on 08/30/2017 3:52:48 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Moonman62

Actually, this post makes it is evident that as with other accusations of yours in lieu of an argument, this award belongs to you!

Nor is there there any such thing as “luck” in God’s universe, but which use further evidences your watchmaker god which leads to Hell.

Yet despite the worthiness of this rebuke, may God in His mercy grant you repentance unto Life.


175 posted on 08/30/2017 4:54:04 AM 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, there tends to be competing theories for most things that we don;t understand well enough. People keep investigating, building up knowledge until an answer becomes clearer. If new information or knowledge comes to light in the future that contradicts the original understanding, the theory gets changed.

That’s why we have antibiotics, cancer treatments, spacecraft orbiting distant planets etc. It’s one of the best things about humanity.


176 posted on 08/30/2017 11:54:50 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: dfwgator

Good one.


177 posted on 09/01/2017 9:58:48 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

.
It must be Moron Day for the Noozies.
.


178 posted on 09/01/2017 10:00:11 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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