Post by compguy on Jan 22, 2005 21:13:21 GMT -5
When you talk to an evolutionist about how life began they will no doubt tell you straight out that evolution has nothing to do with how life began, only how it has changed over the years, however, that to me makes it sound as if evolution has no beginning. So let us discuss the beginning of life and simply leave the word evolution out. Of course we Christians believe that life from non-life can only be from God. This is how I believe but schools are teaching something different. I for one was taught about biogenesis (beginning of life) to believe God had no part in it at all. Went something like this:
In one well-known series of experiments in 1953, American chemists Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey attempted to reproduce the atmosphere of the primitive Earth nearly 4 billion years ago. They circulated a mixture of gases believed to have been present at the time (hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water vapor) over water in a sterile gpkmtyoll container. They then subjected the gases to the energy of electrical sparks, simulating the action of lightning on the primitive Earth. After about a week, the fluid turned brown and was found to contain amino acids—the building blocks of proteins. Subsequent work by these scientists and others also succeeded in producing nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA and other nucleic acids. While the artificial generation of these molecules in laboratories did not produce a living organism, this research offers some support that the first building blocks of life could have arisen from raw materials that were present in the environment of the primitive Earth.
So what they thought they were doing was demonstrating how life could have started without any intervention, but what they did was intervene right? This in itself demonstrates at the least Intelligent Design (ID). Those gases didn’t just happen to be there they put them there; they stimulated action with electric sparks which they produced.
compguy
In one well-known series of experiments in 1953, American chemists Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey attempted to reproduce the atmosphere of the primitive Earth nearly 4 billion years ago. They circulated a mixture of gases believed to have been present at the time (hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water vapor) over water in a sterile gpkmtyoll container. They then subjected the gases to the energy of electrical sparks, simulating the action of lightning on the primitive Earth. After about a week, the fluid turned brown and was found to contain amino acids—the building blocks of proteins. Subsequent work by these scientists and others also succeeded in producing nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA and other nucleic acids. While the artificial generation of these molecules in laboratories did not produce a living organism, this research offers some support that the first building blocks of life could have arisen from raw materials that were present in the environment of the primitive Earth.
So what they thought they were doing was demonstrating how life could have started without any intervention, but what they did was intervene right? This in itself demonstrates at the least Intelligent Design (ID). Those gases didn’t just happen to be there they put them there; they stimulated action with electric sparks which they produced.
compguy