Genesis on Diamonds
10 July 2008
In the beginning life evolved out of a warm little pond of chemicals... no.. wait.. I mean life evolved out of a little cocktail with clay substrates... no.. wait.. that didn't work either. It must have been diamonds. Out of all the other stages of evolution, the evolution of life from non organic matter is the largest jump that needs to take place for biology to take place. All the planets and stars in the universe would seem kind of lonely if there was nothing around to even realize they existed.
Many people have calculated the statistical impossibility of life originating from non-living mater and each time the number is staggeringly improbable. To give you a brief example the number of atoms in the entire universe is 1080. The odds of forming the most simple non living protein is 1:10139, and a single cell is 1:1040,000 (any probability larger than 1:1050 is considered impossible according to the Law of Probability). The Law of Biogenesis also states that life always comes from life. This alone should be enough to convince anyone that life did not happen by itself; however, there is still a problem in some peoples world view.
The logical sequence is as follows.
- We exist
- God does not exist
- Therefore life happened by itself
If this sequence is true then you need to make the impossible possible. This recent report from Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials and the Institute of Nanotechnology in Germany says, “That life could have started with crystalline water layers inducing order to prebiotic molecules on solid surfaces was predicted by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. Mineral surfaces are catalytic platforms, regarded as necessary during the emergence of life on Earth because the assembly of complex bioorganic molecules by random collisions in an aqueous environment is implausible.”
There are two things they are trying to address.
1. Implausibility
2. Increasing order
They are well aware of the Laws of Thermodynamics and how all things tend toward disorder, not increased order. This report attempts to over come this by the conductivity created by hydrogenated diamonds and adds graphite as the mechanism to create nucleobases. The problem with using the diamond conductivity is that you still need a mechanism to convert any energy into a useful form. Adding raw energy is destructive, not constructive. (One note to make would be that they have not even observed the results they wanted. They have seen a better conductivity and assume that means they are correct (and they may be) but they have still not yet proved their hypothesis.)
Even if all the correct chemicals were in the right place at the right time on top of one of these specially treated diamonds, they would still need to arrange themselves in the correct order and that still does not solve the problem that we started with. All you would have is a pile of non-living, highly ordered chemicals. Putting things all in the right place at the right time does not produce life. To show this you could use the “frog in a blender” method. You will have all the parts to make a frog all in one place, but life is more than being in the right place at the right time. If life was as simple as a having the parts in the right order then almost nothing would die. As soon as you die, so does everything else in your body.
Right now we are looking at a 1”x1” square of mural painted on the side of of the The Great Wall of China. Scientists get excited when their results are almost lining up with what they have predicted, but fail to step back and look at the big picture. They have called this finding “the best of all possible origin of life platforms”... Thats it? The best you can do is say this is the best platform?
What about the actual process? The components? The energy? The chemicals? The information? The food supply? The ability to reproduce???
Matthew 23:24
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
- Jesus
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/ cgdefu/2008/8/i08/abs/cg8005037.html
