Life

 

Abiogenesis - the beginning of life from non-living matter, is shown to be absolutely impossible. No scientist has ever observed it, and none can even begin to explain a process that would enable it to take place.

 

The smallest genome known to man is that of the Carsonella ruddii, which has 320,000 nucleotides, with 182 protein-coding genes. However, it is incapable of independent life, relying on its host for survival. The smallest known genome for a free-living organism is a microbe called Pelagibacter, which has 1,308,759 nucleotides, with 1,354 protein genes and 35 RNA genes.

 

So there is an enormous difference in size between an organism capable of independent life and one which is not. No-one can explain how an organism of smaller complexity could live and reproduce, or how one of this size of complexity could suddenly appear as a result of random events. Scientific observation proves it could never have taken place.

 

Chirality is yet another obstacle evolutionists cannot explain. At the molecular level amino acids can exist in two forms: right-handed and left-handed. In inanimate matter they are in a random 50/50 mixture. In life, nearly all amino acids that can be used in proteins must be left-handed, and almost all carbohydrates and polymers must be right-handed. So for a living organism to emerge from inanimate matter, the 50/50 mixture must, contrary to nature, organise itself into single chirality.

 

Primordial soup is an invention of evolutionists, who, in spite of claiming that life will evolve on any planet where there is water, know that water does not contain the elements necessary for a living organism to emerge. So primordial soup is the imaginary medium in which it is assumed to have taken place. No geological evidence has ever been found to prove it existed. We know ancient forests existed because we find the evidence in the geological layers. Where is the evidence for primordial soup?

 

Transitional species linking all the different life forms, apart from a comparative handful of dubious, disputed specimens, are nowhere to be seen. Darwin said,

 

“He who rejects this view of the imperfection of the geological record, will rightly reject the whole theory. For he may ask in vain where are the numberless transitional links which must formerly have connected the closely allied or representative species…”

(The Origin of Species, emphasis mine.)

 

Darwin thought they were missing because they hadn’t be found yet. We now know they are missing because they do not exist. Yet as can be seen in the challenge, it would take a huge number of transitional forms to move from one type of life form to another even very similar form. Yet evolutionists are quite prepared to believe that every time fossils formed, over a period of many millions of years, no transitional forms were around to be fossilised. You have to admire their faith!

 

The missing link is the common ancestor from which chimps and humans are assumed to have evolved and/or the transitional forms that are supposed to have led up to the present difference between them. It has been ‘found’ several times, but later research has gone on to falsify the claim. The most recent example is Neanderthal man, where the latest DNA evidence, based on 60% of ‘Neanderthal DNA, demonstrates less difference between modern man and Neanderthal than can be found between one chimp and another. Furthermore, this evidence shows that they interbred with the ancestors of modern Europeans, Asians, Australians, and Native Americans, but not Africans. So the ‘out of Africa’ theory that modern man originated in Africa and evolved from Neanderthal man is clearly wrong! See here for more detail.

 

Trilobite and dinosaur fossils are not found together: why not? The evolutionist would say it is because the trilobites died out millions of years before dinosaurs evolved. The creationist would say it is because trilobites lived at the bottom of the sea and dinosaurs lived on land!

 

Soft tissue, along with DNA, has been found in dinosaur bones proving it is impossible they became extinct millions of years ago and thus destroying the evolutionary timetable. More details can be found here, and here is a list of 41 scientific publications of the findings of soft tissues found in fossils.

 

Dinosaurs are supposed to have become extinct 55 million years ago; yet this paper which is not a creationist document, declares in Table One at the bottom of the second page that even if kept at zero degrees centigrade, 125,000 years is the absolute maximum length of time soft tissue could survive. This is 440 times less than the supposed time of extinction. The remains of an ichthyosaur that they claim became extinct 180 million years ago was found with skin on it that was still flexible, when this kind of soft tissue has scientifically been proved could only last 10's of thousands of years at best under the most favourable of conditions.

 

No living transitional species can be identified. Yet evolution, if it happened at all, must continue to happen. The excuse of punctuated equilibrium - the change takes place too quickly for transitional forms to be found, either fossilised or living - has no basis in observation or science. Scientific proof is that which can be seen, tried and tested.

 

Over 1,000 human ailments have been identified as due to mutation, which is the only way for different sorts of DNA information to appear. No-one can identify a single mutation that is a clear step to a new kind of life form. Therefore scientific observation proves that the net result of mutation is downhill, destructive, producing deterioration. This is the opposite to what evolution requires and exactly what creation expects.

 

The Galapagos finches are presented by evolutionists as examples of evolution. However, since every single one is 100% finch, no new kind of creature has evolved. No new feature has appeared. This is simply an example of natural selection - a shuffling or loss of previously existing genetic information. For a new kind of creature to evolve, new information for new features must appear in the DNA: this and only this would be evidence for evolution.

 

The Peppered Moth is hailed as an example of evolution. However, nothing new has appeared: there were light and dark coloured moths at the start of the process and at the end. All that has changed (if in fact anything has changed at all) is the relative number of light/dark moths. Once again it is simply natural selection, which fits perfectly both with the creationist model of origins and scientific observation.

 

The DNA of humans is enormous: when I checked it some years ago, the Human Genome Project was reporting 3,164,700,000 base pairs (over three billion). Some evolutionists have claimed the difference between human and chimps’ DNA is as small as 1%; however since chimps have at least 12% more DNA than humans it is clear by any logical argument the difference is 12 times as much! For this difference to have occurred over a few million years, to produce chimps and humans from a common ancestor, requires a huge amount of change: far too large to be possible. Additionally, mutation, which is a random copying mistake, could never produce anything other than damage when changing such a large amount of DNA. See The Challenge, The Triple Whammy - especially There’s More for further details.

 

“Famous geneticist J.B.S. Haldane calculated that it would take about 300 generations for a favourable mutation to become fixed in a population (every member having a double copy of it). He calculated that in the approximately 6 million years since our supposed hominid ancestor split from the chimpanzee line, only about 1000 (<2000 according to ReMine) such mutations could become fixed. This is certainly not nearly enough to turn an ape into a human. But most importantly, we now know that there are about 125 million single nucleotide differences between humans and chimps, resulting from about 40 million mutational events. This means that somewhere between 39,998,000 and 124,998,000 deleterious changes have occurred since the split with our common ancestor. That means we have degenerated from chimps, which makes a mockery of the whole mutation/selection theory of origin.”

JOURNAL OF CREATION 21(3) 2007 page 116

 

The ENCODE Project (see Junk DNA for more detail.) completed in 2012, has proved beyond any doubt that throughout the 95% of human DNA, that for 40 years had been claimed to be ‘junk’ by evolutionists, it has an essential role. This finding has made possible research into ways of combating illness never before possible. It is fatal to the theory of evolution, because it makes the amount of change necessary to produce modern man and chimps from a common ancestor in just a few million years far too great to be possible. See The Challenge for more detail on this.

 

Junk DNA junk. As just mentioned, for 40 years evolutionists told us that the 95% of our DNA is junk and therefore scientific evidence for evolution: the junk was supposed to be relics of our evolutionary past plus random change through mutation. A genuine scientific test is one capable of working two ways: if it works as the theory predicts then the theory is proven; if it does not the theory fails. So if the junk DNA theory is the scientific test evolutionists for so long have been telling us proves we evolved, then since our DNA has been shown not to be 95% junk, this proves we did not evolve. It is obvious logic – they can’t expect to have their cake and eat it! For more details on this follow the links higher up the page under the heading, ‘The DNA of Humans’.

 

Irreducible complexity is yet one more massive obstacle to evolution. There are many systems within all living things, which are highly complex and could not function without a number of elements present and functioning. The theory of evolution is based on the premise of things gradually changing and becoming more complex. But these systems could not appear in this way: all the essential elements have to be present and functioning simultaneously, otherwise they will not work at all. One example is the flagellum - a ‘motor’ used by some bacteria to enable movement (see the You Tube clip below).

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