Origins of Life

 There is only two ways that life can originate. There is spontaneous creation where there is an intelligent being involved or there is evolution where a slow and gradual process causes an inanimate object to come alive. The problem is evolution violates the Law of Biogenesis and Cell Theory. Laws and theories have much more scientific backing than a model so that should be enough to prove that evolution can not happen (See Science, Uniformity, and Causality). If you can not create life you have no evolution. In the 16th century it was believed that fruit flies would spontaneously come from fruit, geese from barnacle, mice from dirty clothes, and bees from dead calves. This was until Spallanzani (1780) and Pasteur (1860) did experiments and came up with the Law of Biogenesis that tells us that all life comes from life and spontaneous generation does not happen.

 Natural laws by themselves can not create specified complexity. Natural laws can create things like a canyon but can not create the faces on Mt. Rushmore. The faces have a specified complexity and highly complex information. The DNA on a single celled animal contains enough information to fill one volume of an encyclopedia while the information in the RNA and the rest of the cell can fill an entire library of information and all that information has to be in the right order for the cell to function. Having them even get in the right order would be more difficult than even dumping out an entire box of crayons and had them line up in order by color. If you had a print shop and had all the necessary products to create a dictionary how many explosions would it require to print a dictionary? How long would it take if you watched the print shop with no people in it to create the dictionary by itself? It was Carl Sagan that said "A single message from outer space would prove there was intelligent life on other planets" but an entire library of information inside the most simple cell doesn't prove that intelligence put it there?

Origin of New and More Complex Life Forms

 We find (to quote Ken Ham) billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth; however, everything we find is a fully formed animal or person. There are so many fossils found today that even given the billions of years there still would not have been enough time passed to create all the fossils that are found. If you look at the number of fossils formed today (It only takes 10-20 years to fossilize something) there is almost nothing formed. In order for a fossil to form it needs to be buried immediately otherwise it will rot or another animal will eat it. Why are there so many fossils if there was not a flood? We never find half winged birds or half fin fish or any intermediate fossils. What about the millions of years that birds were evolving that they had only a partial wing, would they be able to fly? Or what about the millions of years that fish were evolving their fins, would they be able to swim? When fish were turning into amphibians and their gills were transforming into lungs would they have to learn how to live without breathing for millions of years? It requires about 20 million volumes of an encyclopedia full of information to create the human brain. Natural laws can not explain how you can get 20,000,000 volumes of information from 1 library of information (1 simple cell to the brain).

 Mutations are the process that evolution claims will take something from simple to complex. The problem with that is that mutations only scramble existing information. Mutations can not create new information. Single celled animals do not have the information to create teeth (It would not do them much good, would it). You can not go from simple to complex using natural law.




 Some may say we are all related because we all have the same type of skeletal structures such as how a man, dog, whale, and bird all have a radius and ulna in their arms and that proves we all came from a common ancestor. What they won't tell you is that those similar structures all come from different genes on the chromosomes. If everyone had a common ancestor that would mean the genes that make those bones would contain the same instructions in everyone but they do not. Wouldn't common structures that have similar purposes yet are completely unrelated prove a common designer? Lets say you see two paintings that are of the same thing and use the same colors but are only slightly different and they are hanging next to each other in the woods. Would you assume that one painting was there first and over time it produced a slightly different copy of its self? No, you would assume they had a common painter.

 Creationists have never seen the invisible creator and evolutionists have never seen evolutionary changes occur in the past. The universe needs a cause as described before because nothing can create it self. Since the universe is nature and is constrained by the natural laws then the cause of of the universe has to be outside nature. Life does not come from non life and complex life forms can not come from simple life forms.

Law of Probability and Monkeys Typing

 I took a class in college called Statistics and Probability and I would not say it was my strong point however I'm lucky there are other people out there that are very good at it. Basicly the Law of Probability is a formula to determine the chance that something will happen given a set of variables. You have all probably heard it said that you could get monkeys to type an encyclopedia given enough monkeys and enough typewriters, so we are going to put that to the test. According to evolution life started out as non-life and through a slow process eventually became alive as a "simple cell". This sounded like a very reasonable theory back when microscopes could only see cells as small bags of liquid but now we know that there is no such thing as a "simple cell". Each cell is like a small city with a Cell Membrane like bridges holding multiple cells together and allowing certain chemicals to pass, a Cell Wall as a foundation to hold everything in place, Vacuoles as warehouses that hold water or chemicals vital to production, a Nucleus as a central hub of information, the Chloroplast for production of energy, the Endoplasmic Reticulum that are highways for the chemicals to transfer to other parts of the cell or other cells, Ribosome factories turning raw material amino acids into proteins, Golgi Apparatus refineries to take crude proteins and convert them into useable ones, and the Mitochondrion that are the power substations that take the food and turn it into useable energy. The simplest protein known today is made of about 2000 amino acids. The odds of forming a basic protein is 1 chance in 10¹³⁹ (that is 10 followed by 139 zeros). The law of probability concludes that it is impossible for anything to occur if it has an chance in less than 1 in 10⁵⁰ so right here this alone proves that evolution could not have happened. But lets say a 'natural' miracle happened and some how that protein beat the odds. The odds of forming even that most basic cell is 1 chance in 10^40,000 (that is 10 followed by 40,000 zeros).

 Now when people speak of such large numbers the brain just tries to stack them into scaleale sizes so it is easier to understand so to show you how large of a number we are talking about imagine your body. Now imagine how many cells are in your body. Now thing of how many atoms are in each of your cells. To give you a hint there are trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions........... and trillions of atoms in each of your cells. Now with that in mind try to think of how big the entire universe is and everything in it. There are only 10⁸⁰ atoms in the entire universe. Does that give you some idea of just how big 10^40,000 actually is? So lets review,

 - A single protein - 1:10¹³⁹
 - A single cell - 1:10^40,000
 - Number of atoms in the entire universe - 10⁸⁰
 - Number of electrons that would fit in the universe - 10¹³⁰

 Lets go back to the question of the monkeys typing, how long would it take for them just to type the title "Encyclopedia Britannica"? If we gave them a keyboard that had 48 keys on it the chance that they would get a "e" followed by a "n" is 1:48 x 1:48 = 1:2,304. To get a "c" next that would be 1:48 x 1:2,304 = 1:110,592. If they got one letter out of place that would mean they would have to start over. The odds of a monkey typing just the title "Encyclopedia Britannica" is 1 chance in 4.7x10³⁸! That would be 1 monkey on every square foot of the earth stacked 77 miles high typing once a second for 20 billion years! Lets just say you don't want to start putting monkeys in front of computers to test this theory and just say that all this some how miraculously happened and the cell did get put together in the correct order. What would you have? One dead cell.

Randomly type the phrase "encyclopedia britannica" with 48 key keyboard.
 - 48²³=4.7x10³⁸.
 - 1:470,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (470 undecillion) chance.
 - 630,000,000,000,000,000 seconds in 20 billion year old universe.
 - 740,000,000,000,000,000,000 (740 quintillion) monkeys required at 1 keystroke per second for 20 billion years.
 - Odds are that only ONE monkey will get it right.
 - Surface are of earth 5,500,000,000,000,000 ft².
 - With one monkey per ft² they would be stacked 135,000 monkeys high.
 - If your monkeys are 3 ft tall while sitting you would have monkeys stacked 77 miles high!

 This all still has one problem if we are comparing monkeys typing to a cell occurring from nothing and that is that the keyboards already have a language and we already know how to read that language. What if on of those monkeys were typing and finally got the phrase "encyclopedia britannica" and handed it to someone that only speaks Chinese? It would be useless to them. A cell has massive amounts of DNA that it already knows how to read, decode, and re-encode. All the information in the world does no good if no one can understand it. Genetic mutations are much more dangerous than typing since one wrong change can be fatal. A more likely scenario would be that if a monkey typed the wrong key that the typewriter would kill him. Louis Pasteur used empirical science to form the law of Biogenesis that states "all life is from life". I think we can leave it here that it is absurd to conclude that life could occur on its own.

 One of the worlds largest super-computer right now (maybe even the largest) is not just one computer but a collection of computers of thousands of users processing data packets for a organization called SETI. They use radio telescopes and listen for information from outer space to look for a repeating or complex signal from broadcasts from another planet. What would happen if they finally got a packet that was a transmition of increasing numbers? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, ..... and so on. The next day the news papers would all read "INTELliGENT liFE FOUND ON ANOTHER PLANET". Why does the secular world see intelligence in the simple yet look at something as complex as a cell, DNA, or your brain and see only random unorganized chaos that happened by chance?

Mutations and Punctuated Equilibrium

 Mutations are also a problem for evolutionists. If things are supposed to evolve then they need to start as simple and go to complex. Mutations are supposed to be the building blocks for evolution however mutations only work on biological properties that already exist, they can not create new properties to meet a want or need. A single celled animal does not have the information for teeth so there is no amount of mutations that can change a single celled creature into a human. Darwin thought that as science progressed we would find millions and millions of intermediate fossils to validate his theory. Even Darwin realized that if there were no fossils showing a slow gradual change his theory would breakdown. In order to show evolution to be plausible there would need to be millions of intermediate steps showing half wings and partially formed legs however we have never found anything that has not been anything less than completely functional. With the problem of no missing links some evolutionists turned to punctuated equilibrium. They say that since there are no missing links maybe it happened instantly and one day a bird hatched out of a reptile egg.

 If I had a sixth finger, and their mother did not, then my children would have a chance of inheriting that mutation if it was in the germline cells. While having a sixth finger may be beneficial (if it works) that does not mean that you, our five fingered counterpart, have any less chance of surviving. The only way for that mutation to become common is if me and my children go start our own little village with others that do or do not have the same mutation. Eventually we may all have the same mutation due to the founder effect, but the rest of the world still does not. The probability goes down significantly with every generation of offspring that was not my direct dependent with that mutation.

 The only way everyone would evolve a sixth finger would be 1. They randomly have that mutation 2. They are descendent's of parents that both have that mutation. Essentially, either it has to happen spontaneously or everyone else has to die.