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Science: A New World Religion
Posted on the 12 October 2012 by LdsapologeticsIn 1953 Stanley Miller performed an experiment which has had a lasting impact on us all. He demonstrated that passing a spark through a chosen mixture of gasses will form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins which are the main ingredients of living cells. Science was given an inch and they took a mile by teaching that lightning strikes provided the sparks that formed the amino acids which were then concentrated in an “organic soup,” and then linked together to form proteins. The further claim was made that these proteins mixed and formed DNA; however this is false on many levels for many reasons.
Amino acids will not link together to form proteins, period. It was a bit like claiming that if bricks formed in nature they would get together to build houses. Proteins are so sophisticated that in all of nature, they only form in already living cells. This scientific fact is not what was taught; because it didn’t line up with the agenda of the Atheist community.
Which viewpoint is best supported by the evidence? A universe brought to life by a Creator or order born from chaos? Evidence that life never comes from non-living materials is so abundant that it is a basic principle of science called the Principle of Biogenesis (living things come only from living things). Atheists and many agnostics have faith that contrary to this basic principle of science, life did evolve spontaneously from chemicals at least once. They now call their theory “abiogenesis” which comes from roots that mean “not Biogenesis.” They no longer use the term “spontaneous generation.”
Is abiogenesis possible? No. Proteins never form in nature outside of living cells and the amino acids from which they are built are of two kinds: Half are called left-handed and half right-handed. Only proteins containing all left handed amino acids will work in living things because proteins which contain any right-handed amino acids do not connect with the other proteins around them because they don’t “fit” together properly. In nature, all left handed amino acids are only formed by living cells. Amino acids formed in experiments like Miller’s, are half left, and half right-handed so they will not work in the proteins of living things. These are scientific facts that are indisputable and so far science has, in truth, not been able to, using the scientific method, proved that life is able to form spontaneously.
For example cells can only make proteins for the following reasons:
•Think of DNA as the cell’s library, and RNA as a book that can be checked out of that library. A type of RNA checks out the needed information out of the DNA library to line up left handed amino acids in the exact order required for each individual protein.
•The correctly ordered left-handed amino acids are then linked together by a “molecular machine” of sorts. This “machine” is made up of another kind of RNA working together with several specialized proteins. The machine links the properly ordered left-handed amino acids, one to the other, to make proteins.
The molecular machines that make proteins are a good example of a cell’s many complex machines. But no machine ever existed that did not have an intelligent inventor; therefore each of the cell’s machines is another evidence for a Creator.In the field of Quantum Physics everything is so random that to say you understand Quantum Physics is to prove you don’t. My point is that on the most basic level of matter everything appears to be so random that it is a complete mystery as to how order is ever achieved. Atheists insist order springs from chaos, however, no experiment has ever proven that true. Odd those scientists aren’t using the scientific method to prove the corner stone of their Atheism true, isn’t it?
One should never make the mistake of thinking that the scientific community is truly scientific, they have as much of an agenda to prove as any other community.
And after having professed through leap after leap of logic for 59 years that amino acids first concentrated, then linked together to form proteins, “scientific” atheists are abandoning this claim. Why?
•Amino acids do not concentrate in the ocean; they disperse and break down.
•Amino acids will not link together in nature to form proteins; not even when scientists try to slant the results by providing all left-handed amino acids in their experiments to make the perfect “organic soup.”
•The fact is even if proteins could form, they could not mix with DNA because DNA does not form outside of living cells. DNA cannot and never has been made in a laboratory, neither has RNA.
The argument is false on every one of the above points. The evidence proves though that there is only one reason that this argument is being abandoned. Because atheists now favor another theory: that RNA rather than proteins formed life. For example:
These “scientists” have not been able to cause amino acids dissolved in water to join together to form proteins. The energy-requiring chemical reactions that join amino acids are reversible and do not occur spontaneously in water. However, most scientists no longer argue that the first proteins assembled spontaneously. Instead, they now propose that the initial macromolecules were composed of RNA, and that RNA later catalyzed the formation of proteins.”{George B. Johnson, Peter H. Raven, Biology, Principles & Explorations, Holt, Rinhehart and Winston, 1996 p. 235}.
It’s great that science finally acknowledges the falsehood about proteins forming in an “organic soup” to create life spontaneously, however the statement invents a new falsehood which is that RNA forms in the way science once tried to prove proteins do but RNA does not for that way either. RNA and DNA, are made of nucleotides,similar to the way proteins are made of amino acids. Fry states:
“… water greatly interferes with the linking of amino acids and nucleotides into chains, a crucial step in the origin of life.”{Iris Fry, The Emergence of Life on Earth, 2000, p.245}.
The fact is when nucleotides are dry RNA never forms except in already living cells:
“… no one has yet succeeded in creating RNA.”{Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth, Why complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, 2000, p. 65, see also 62-6}. “Scientific” atheists today are leaving a false argument about proteins to accept an equally false argument about RNA.The fact that RNA, which is vital to the life of every cell, and cannot be made except by already living cells, is a powerful argument against life forming without a Creator.
Life is different from intelligence to a large degree, a tree is alive but it is not intelligent. A human being is intelligent and alive so we stand out from all other life on Earth. Why? If life spontaneously comes into being and intelligence simply evolves why is it that human beings are the only intelligent beings ever even known of on Earth? If random chance is truly key then wouldn’t we expect to see the insect species that by number and variety dominate life on Earth to have produced conscious and intelligent species among them? Yes we would if random chance and the inevitability of enough time and high enough numbers result in evolution necessary to produce a race like our own.
What's really of interest to me is where the highly sophisticated information contained in DNA and RNA came from. Just another spontaneous event?
Science clearly is not even following its own rules on this issue.
At this point in time 9 out of 10 Americans believe in “a” God and about 86% of the people on Earth have faith as well. That and not all scientists are Atheists so the two disciplines are not mutually exclusive. But science is as much a religion today as any other world religion.