Darwinism Fails
The
attempt to explain the origin of life using Darwin’s theory fails at every
step. The first step of creating the precursors of life from non-living
chemicals has not been experimentally replicated.
Stage One:
From
inorganic to organic – from the gases which presumably surrounded earth to the
simplest amino acids, containing about ten atoms, which are the most basic of the
biochemical universals. Experimentally, Stanley Miller in the United States
showed in 1953 that by passing an electrical discharge through the appropriate
gases, surprisingly large amounts of amino acids were formed. The experiments
are acknowledged as a major break through in understanding how life got under
way. Since then other essential chemicals have been synthesized. However,
until today, five of the twenty amino acids common to all living beings have
resisted human attempts to create them artificially. A Russian biochemist
by the name of Aleksandr Oparin (1894-1980) (Oparin’s definitive work was The
Origin of Life, 3rd rev. ed. 1957.) first proposed in 1924 a model
of the atmosphere of the primitive earth free of oxygen (oxygen literally eats
up any primitive organic chemicals such as amino acids) containing hydrogen, methane,
ammonia and water. Life on earth is shielded from certain death due to ultraviolet
cosmic rays by the ozone layer, which blankets the earth between fifteen and thirty
miles above the surface. Without oxygen in the atmosphere of the primitive
there would have been no ozone layer and the first living organisms would have
been wiped out by cosmic rays, and with oxygen present, the first amino acid
could not have been produced. Imaginative and elaborate solutions have been
written to solve this riddle. But for every suggestion, there is an
insurmountable objection.
Stage Two:
Assuming
that there was (around 4 billion years ago) a sea with a 10% solution of amino
acids, sugars, phosphates, and so on, two major steps have to take place simultaneously.
Amino acids must link together to form proteins and other chemicals must join
up to make nucleic acids, including the vital DNA. Proteins depend on DNA for
their formation and DNA cannot form without pre-existing protein. Nor is it
relatively easy chemistry. Proteins are highly complex molecules. Where an
amino acid typically has ten atoms, a protein may have thousands.
Stage Three:
The formation
of the nucleus.
Stage Four:
The
formation of the cell wall.
to be continued....
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