Evolutionists have tried to figure out what conditions were needed to
produce the first living creatures out of sand and seawater. What they are not
telling you is that they have discovered is that the necessary conditions have
never existed. This is science vs. evolution—a Creation-Evolution
Encyclopedia, brought to you by Creation Science Facts.
CONTENTS: Primitive Environment: 1
The Evolutionists' Conundrum:
Where did all the animals and plants come from?
The Error of
Spontaneous Generation: Evolutionary theory is based on
a debunked error
Chemical Compounds:
10 reasons why living forms could not come into existence by themselves
Proteins and Other Substances: 4 more reasons why life could not self-originate
Page numbers without book references refer to the
book, PRIMITIVE ENVIRONMENT, from which these facts are
summarized. An asterisk ( * ) by a name indicates that person is not
known to be a creationist. Of over 4,000 quotations in the set of books
this Encyclopedia
is based on, only 164
statements are by creationists.
Where do all the animals come from? Well, they come from their parents.
But, way back in the beginning, where did the first frogs, ducks, and chickens
come from?
They came from God.
They did not make themselves. —Yet that is exactly what the humanist theories
teach! The evolutionists declare that dirty seawater made itself into
creatures—which made themselves into still other creatures.
Yet, as we shall find in this and other pages in this Encyclopedia,
there is no evidence that this ever happened.
Just now, let us consider what the evolutionists call "the primitive
environment." That is what our world was supposed to have been like when
seawater was supposed to have changed itself into living creatures.
According to the theory, warm water, sloshing around one day, made itself
into some creatures in the ocean. That is how the evolutionists tell us that
life on our planet began. That is the "origin of the species."
But there is an abundance of scientific facts that such an idea is fantastic,
and could not possibly happen.
Our world teems with life forms—plants and animals of all types. Yet
evolutionists cannot explain how even one of them could have come into
existence. Here are some of the reasons why it is impossible for nonliving
things, such as dirt, sand, or water to make itself into living plants or
animals:
Although we are here talking about "the origin of the species"—the
basic issue in evolutionary theory—yet Charles Darwin never touched on that
point in his book by that name. Later, he wrote a letter in which he expressed a
wish that somehow it might have happened in a "warm little pond" somewhere. But
the truth is that evolutionists cannot satisfactorily explain how even one life
form came into existence, much less millions of them.
A fantastic yarn about a supposedly "primitive environment," which could have
enabled living things to pop into existence, has been dreamed up, in the hope
that it might explain how dirt or minerals in water might somehow have changed
into a living creature.
Let us look at this theory. We will discover that, scientifically, it could
not have produced life out of nonlife.
Evolutionary theory is based on a debunked error.
Out of the Dark Ages. One of the superstitious beliefs of the Dark
Ages was the theory of "spontaneous generation." That was the idea that
if you threw a bunch of clothes in a corner, after a time it would turn into
mice. If you kept some old flour for a time, it would change into worms.
Of course, that superstition was not true. Yet it is actually the basis of
modern "scientific evolution"!
We all know that everything alive ultimately had to come from something else
that was alive. Parents have babies, and they grow up and have more babies. Mice
make nests in clothes, and insects lay eggs in grain.
But way back in the beginning, something got this life-from-life process
started. There is only one answer: It began when God designed and made our first
parents. All of the complicated and carefully interrelated details in your body
systems—were designed by a Person with super intelligence and immense power.
However, in order to deny the existence of God, atheists say that the first
mice, men, and microbes sprang forth from sand and seawater! That is impossible,
and knowledgeable chemists declare the idea to be utter foolishness.
In the last century, Louis Pasteur and other scientists conclusively proved
that "life comes only from life." The scientific name for that fact is
"biogenesis."
Here are several reasons why it would be impossible for even a small creature
to arise from rain water on a dirt pile or from seawater in an ocean:
Instant success necessary. In order for life to arise from nonlife,
there would have to be immediate and total success. All the complicated body
parts, enzymes, etc., would have to be there instantly at the very beginning—or
the next instant that life form would be dead.—p. 15.
Immediate reproduction needed. As soon as the first life form existed,
even though it be a small microbe, it would have to be able to divide and make
copies of itself, or reproduce and bear young.—p. 15.
10 reasons why living forms could not come into existence by themself.
1: Chemical compounds and laboratories. The only place you will find
the immense variety of chemical compounds, found in a living organism, is in a
million-dollar chemical laboratory. You will not find it in a dirt pile or in
seawater.
Interestingly enough, those laboratories which are well-enough equipped to
consider "making life"—still cannot do it! Even when the chemicals and lab
equipment are in hand, life can never be made from nonlife. A dead animal is
full of the right chemical compounds, but it is no longer alive. A trained
scientist can make nonliving amino acids, but he cannot make them come to life.
Only God can do that.—pp. 15-16.
2: Chemical compounds and the law of mass action.
According to the law of mass action, even if a life form could be made in
seawater, it would immediately disintegrate back into chemicals.
This is because chemical reactions always proceed in a direction from highest
to lowest concentration.
For example, even if an amino acid (a building block of protein) could be
made in seawater, the next instant, the law of mass action would eliminate it.
The amino acid would hydrolyze with the abundant water—and return back into
separate chemicals!
Because this law applies to chemical reactions which are reversible, it
applies to all life compounds.—p. 15.
3: Chemical compounds and concentrations.
Evolutionists recognize that there is only one possible place where life could
have originated by itself—and that is in warm seawater.
Yet we never find the rich concentrations of chemicals, in seawater, that
would be needed.—p. 14.
Seawater does indeed contain all the elements, but in extremely small
amounts. Seawater is far too diluted to be useful. In addition, it does not have
the remarkable number of chemical compounds found in a living organism.—p. 16.
4: Chemical compounds and precipitates. Even if the chemical
compounds, needed to produce a living creature, could make themselves—the next
instant they would start to precipitate; that is, they would start uniting with
still other chemical compounds. For example, fatty acids would combine with
magnesium or calcium; and arginine (an amino acid), chlorophyll, and porphyrins
would be absorbed by clays.
Oddly enough, many of the compounds in your body have to be kept separate—or
they will mutually destroy one another! An example would be sugars and amino
acids, when brought together.—p. 17.
5: Chemical compounds and fluid condensation. Certain compounds can
only exist when the water is carefully drained off. This would include fats,
sugars, nucleic acids, and proteins. So they could not be made in any kind of
water.—p. 17.
6: Chemical compounds and water. Lab technicians do most of their
work with fluids other than water. They do not use seawater or even tap or
distilled water to make amino acids. And the amino acids they make are always
dead; no one ever makes life or puts life into anything.—p. 17.
7: Chemical compounds and energy. There would have to be an energy
source in the task of making life. In desperation, evolutionists speculate that
perhaps a lightning bolt supplied it! Now, really! Lightning kills; it does not
impart life!
By the way, once lightning has passed through an object, no energy remains.
Yet living creatures must have ongoing energy sources within themselves.—p.
17.
8: Chemical compounds and oxygen. A major obstacle to producing life
from nonlife is the presence of oxygen. The chemicals of life will decompose if
oxygen is in the air.
When the chemical compounds within the life form are opened to the presence
of oxygen, those compounds decompose. They oxidize. That is another reason a
living creature could not be invented by ocean water; there is oxygen there.—pp.
17, 19.
9: Chemical compounds and supply. There has never been enough of the
needed chemicals available to make the needed compounds found in living things.
For example, there is not enough concentration of nitrogen in air or water
for amino acids to form by themselves. The same holds true for phosphorus, yet
it is a vital component of DNA and other high-energy compounds.
None other than *Carl Sagan, a leading evolutionist, declared that adenosine
triphosphate (high energy phosphate) could not possibly form by itself.—p.
19.
10: Chemical compounds and rich mixtures.
Evolutionists have searched the globe for places where rich mixtures of
chemicals might be found—rich enough to be suitable for making life compounds.
But there are no such places. They just do not exist.—p. 19.
4 more reasons why life could not self-originate.
1: Protein synthesis. Without protein, there can be no life. Protein,
a basic constituent of all life forms, is composed of amino acids. There are 20
essential amino acids. None of them can produce any of the others or change them
at all.
Mathematically, even if they were all together in a rich mixture, it would
not be possible for all the necessary chemicals to make even the simplest amino
acid (glycine).—p. 19.
2: Proteins and hydrolysis. Even if one of these amino acids could
have formed, it would immediately hydrolyze; that is, it would reconnect with
other chemicals and self-destruct.—pp. 19-20.
3: Fatty acid synthesis. Scientists are not able to even guess how
fatty acids could originally have come into existence. Yet they are an important
part of living things.—p. 20.
4: Other syntheses. What about enzymes and other substances? No one
has any idea how to make them from inorganic materials.—p. 20.
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