Do an Internet search and ask, "How did life begin on earth?"
and you'll find articles and videos pointing to some kind
of evolutionary explanation.
One honest NASA scientist in a video on the subject
begins and ends with, "We just don't know."
Yet, he is clearly looking for a naturalistic or
evolutionary explanation.
Consider that there are only three fundamental
hypotheses for life existing on planet Earth:
1) Life was transported to Earth from someplace else--
something called "Panspermia."
2) All life evolved from non-living matter.
And 3) An intelligent being-- who we might think of as God--
created life.
Which is correct?
Can you know?
While there is much about life that we do not know,
the answer of how life began, can be known.
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Warm greetings to all of you from all of us here at
Tomorrow's World, where today I'm asking and answering
the question: How did life begin on planet Earth?
And later in the program I'll address an additional question,
"If God is the cause of life, how did He do it?"
First, let's notice the three fundamental hypotheses
for the origin of life on planet Earth:
1) Life was transported to Earth--something
called "Panspermia."
2) All life evolved from non-living matter.
And 3) An intelligent being-- or God--created life.
Setting aside the huge problems of even bacterial life traveling
through vast distances of space, over immense times, and in
an environment that is hostile to life, the idea that life
was transported to Earth from somewhere else in the universe--
merely postpones the central question.
If life was transported to planet earth by a meteor
or some other unknown means, how did it begin at that
original source?
Was it by chance?
Or was it by an infinitely great mind with unlimited power?
Since the time when Charles Darwin's thesis,
On the Origin of Species, was published more than
165 years ago, the need for God in people's minds
has been diminished.
After all, if we're no more than the product of blind
evolutionary chance, what need is there for a Divine Creator?
However, in the last half century, insurmountable
cracks have appeared in Darwin's thesis.
Let's note three of them.
Crack #1: The fossil record argues against evolution.
But this may surprise you since evolutionists often point to
the fossil record as proof.
However, they personally know better.
The lack of fossil evidence was a problem from the beginning
and Darwin admitted this, but it was hoped that with
greater fossil finds, the intermediates, the so-called
missing links, would be found.
But sadly, for evolutionists, that has not happened.
Every few years we hear "the missing link has been found,"
but is that true?
The answer is no it is not.
Part of the problem is that it is not a single link,
but tens of thousands of links that are required--
not only for man, but for every living creature.
Scientist Michael Denton pulls back the curtain
on the geologic record, in his insightful book,
"Evolution: A Theory in Crisis."
"The overall picture of life on Earth today is so discontinuous,
the gaps between the different types so obvious, that, as
Steven Stanley reminds us in his recent book Macroevolution,
if our knowledge of biology was restricted to those species
presently existing on earth, "we might wonder whether the
doctrine of evolution would qualify as anything more than
an outrageous hypothesis."
And as Denton points out, and evolutionary scientists
must admit, missing transitions--that is,
intermediate forms--plagued Darwin from the beginning.
"The absence of intermediates, although damaging, was not
fatal in 1860, for it was reasonable to hope that
many would eventually be found as geological
activities increased."
However, time and new discoveries have not been
allies of evolution.
Denton suggests that "probably 99.9%" of our current knowledge
of the fossil record has been discovered since 1860, and:
"Only a small fraction of the hundred thousand or so
fossil species known today were known to Darwin.
But virtually all the new fossil species discovered
since Darwin's time have either been closely related
to known forms or, like the Poganophoras,
strange unique types of unknown affinity."
Transitional forms simply are not there, and Denton
states the obvious to any honest person who looks
at the fossil record with an open mind:
"Without intermediates or transitional forms to bridge
the enormous gaps which separate existing species
and groups of organisms, the concept of evolution
could never be taken seriously as a scientific hypothesis."
So, crack number one in the evolutionary hypothesis is:
The fossil record argues against evolution.
Now for crack number two:
It is mathematically impossible for life to rise from dead
matter by chance.
Science writer and evolutionist Bill Bryson explains:
"No one really knows, but there may be as many as a
million [different] types of protein in the human body, and
each one is a little miracle."
One of those million or so miracles that you have likely
heard of is collagen.
And regarding the odds of it self-assembling, Bryson
states what all rational scientists must admit:
"The chances of a 1,055 sequence molecule like collagen
spontaneously self-assembling are, frankly, nil.
It just isn't going to happen."
He then went on to describe the mathematical odds against
a much smaller 200 string protein self-assembling,
as greater than all the atoms in the universe.
The larger collagen protein happening by chance is of a
magnitude incomprehensibly greater, but collagen
is not even close to the largest protein.
Titin gives elasticity to our muscles and much more,
and it contains somewhere in the neighborhood of more
than 33,000 amino acids.
That's like throwing letters of the alphabet together and
by accident forming a coherent sentence made up of some
33,000 or more letters.
No wonder evolutionist Bill Bryson makes this
remarkable admission.
"By all the laws of probability proteins shouldn't exist."
Nature programs and books generally portray evolution
as fact rather than theory.
However, this theory is in crisis, as Michael Denton
explains in Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.
So far, I've given you two cracks in the theory.
Crack #1: The fossil record argues against evolution.
And, Crack #2: It is mathematically impossible
for life to rise from dead matter by chance.
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Evolution is considered a proven fact in the minds of many.
So much so that few biology teachers, scientists, and
journalists, who want to retain their jobs,
are willing to openly profess believing otherwise.
But has it been proven?
Life is either the result of cosmic accidents or the result
of great intelligence with unlimited power.
There's no other choice.
In the previous portion of this program, I gave you two cracks
in the theory of evolution.
Now here is a third crack:
Life is complex beyond our comprehension.
When Charles Darwin formulated his theory and published it
in 1859, he had no concept about the complexity of the cell.
But with the advent of modern technologies that allow us to
see inside the cell, we now know that the complexity of
cells staggers the mind.
As Michael Denton explains:
"Between a living cell and the most highly ordered
non-biological system, such as a crystal or a
snowflake, there is a chasm as vast and absolute as it
is possible to conceive....
Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small...
each is in effect a veritable microminiaturized factory
containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of
intricate molecular machinery... far more complicated than any
machine built by man and absolutely without parallel
in the non-living world."
Denton goes on to explain:
"The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great
that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have
been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish,
vastly improbable, event.
Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable
from a miracle."
In his 2019 book on the subject of the human body,
Bill Bryson makes this thought-provoking admission:
"You could call together all the brainiest people who are
alive now or have ever lived and endow them with the complete
sum of human knowledge, and they could not between them make
a single living cell..."
Yet, evolutionists want us to believe that something so
complex happened by chance.
The truth is that scientists cannot give a rational
explanation how such a grand accident could occur.
Oh, they give just-so stories that sound good on the surface:
this might have happened, then this may have come about,
and is it not hard to imagine this change taking place,
etc., etc., and etc.?
All this leads us to the obvious conclusion:
What is the most reasonable explanation for life?
Many scientists and philosophers are coming
to the realization that evolution is found wanting
and that the only rational explanation is that there
is an intelligent Creator behind life.
Perhaps the most striking example is that of
the late Antony Flew, considered by many to be
"the world's most influential philosophical atheist."
"But early in 2004, at the age of eighty-one,
he changed his mind.
Flew announced his conversion to deism, launching seismic
waves throughout the philosophic community....
He had become convinced that life would not be possible
without the extreme fine tuning of the universe,
and this was only possible with a designer.
In addition, he concluded that new discoveries about
DNA made it impossible that life could be an accident.
As he put it:
"It now seems to me that the findings of more than
fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a
new and enormously powerful argument to design."
When we consider how complex life truly is on every level,
it brings us to another question:
How could God do it?
It should be obvious to anyone who knows even a little bit
about the structure and operation of cells,
that they cannot happen by chance.
As Michael Denton rightfully stated:
"The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great
that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have
been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish,
vastly improbable, event.
Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable
from a miracle."
Yes, we are left breathless regarding life's complexity,
so much so that we must ask:
How could even God do it?
I'll answer that question in the next portion of this program,
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A 1961 hit song tells us that God made a woman out of
a hundred pounds of clay, an obvious reference to the
biblical account of man being made of the dust of the ground.
But much is left out of this picture.
My guess is that many people envision God taking clay
and molding it in the form of a man, then breathing into
his nostrils, and the clay suddenly became a living man.
But was it that simple?
Was it magic?
How did the circulatory system, the digestive system, the
respiratory system come to be?
How were all the organs-- heart, liver, spleen,
and pancreas--formed?
And let us not forget our brain.
As Bryson says:
"The most extraordinary thing in the universe
is inside your head.
You could travel through every inch of outer space
and very possibly nowhere find anything as marvelous
and complex and high functioning as the three
pounds of spongy mass between your ears."
How did something so marvelous and complex
as the brain come to be?
How did the cells that make up the organs and systems, with
all their amazing organelles and protein machines,
suddenly appear?
The human body, and all living creatures,
whether great or small, are designed from the
microscopic to cause the body to function as a whole.
As explained in the previous portion of this program,
the complexity of life is so great that scientists readily
admit it is mathematically impossible to happen by chance,
yet they refuse to entertain any alternative in their
materialistic religion.
But if there is no other alternative than God,
how did He do it?
How did he construct the cells, the organs, and all
the intricate details, all at once before it began
decomposition--something that begins almost immediately?
Think about it dear friends.
This is no small thing.
How could God do it?
Well, Psalm 33:6 tells us...
"By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth."
Yes, "by the word of the LORD" and "the breath of His mouth."
One could argue that this is poetic and not to be taken
literally, but the idea that it was by God's command that
the universe and life on this planet came to be,
is found throughout the Bible.
Notice that this is confirmed in the very
first chapter of Genesis.
I won't read it all, but let's begin with verse 24...
"Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living
creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing
and beast of the earth, each according to its kind";
and it was so....
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness"....
So God created man in His own image; in the image of
God He created him; male and female He created them."
This account is severely abbreviated and leaves much
out, but another passage confirms that it was the
voice of God by which creation took place.
Breaking into a thought in Psalm 148, we read the following...
"Praise Him, you heavens of heavens,
And you waters above the heavens!
Let them praise the name of the LORD,
For He commanded and they were created."
And then there's Hebrews 1:2-3...
"[God] has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,
whom He has appointed heir of all things,
through whom also He made the worlds; who being the
brightness of His glory and the express image of His person,
and [notice this] upholding all things by the word
of His power...."
But what exactly does this mean?
How could He do it by commanding?
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the bankrupt materialistic religion of evolution.
The debate over how life began has huge implications.
The late William Provine, a professor of biology at
Cornell University, explains the evolutionist's perspective:
"Let me summarize my views on what modern
evolutionary biology tells us loud and clear.
There is no life after death.
When I die, I am absolutely certain that I am going
to be dead.
That's the end of me.
There is no ultimate foundation for ethics, no ultimate meaning
in life, and no free will for humans, either."
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Welcome back.
On this Tomorrow's World program, I'm discussing
the origins of life, briefly surveying what scientists
and philosophers tell us about the complexity of life and
how it simply could not come about by blind chance--
Richard Dawkins notwithstanding.
But in this last portion of our program, I want to explore
one possibility of how God could bring about life on this planet.
As we saw in the previous segment...
God spoke and it was done.
And...
"By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth."
And...
"He upholds all things by the word of His power."
But exactly how did God do it?
Did kidneys and lungs, spleens and hearts,
magically appear without God consciously designing them?
We have a technology that may at least help us imagine
what this may have been like.
While it has been in the background for several years,
it's only in recent times that we, the public,
have become aware of the power of Artificial Intelligence.
And while it is a terribly weak analogy, it may help us begin
to have a sense of what it was like for God to create life.
Today's A.I. platforms seem very powerful and creative.
Ask an A.I. program for a picture of diving cats,
and it will generate one on your computer screen--
you see different species of cats doing somersaults
off a diving board into the water.
The cats are not real, of course.
Computer programmers can describe new applications, and
A.I. writes the code for them.
Students use A.I. to write term papers.
They type in guidelines regarding the subject,
the style to be written in, the word count, etc. and
A.I. generates the thesis-- not always accurately,
and sometimes not without bias.
Yet, these A.I. platforms cannot truly create anything
on their own.
Instead, they have been trained using vast collections of
mankind's knowledge: art, literature, scientific
publications and much more.
A.I. is doing the work, but A.I. is powered by the sum of
human knowledge and creativity.
Yet the mind of God is far greater than all of mankind's
combined knowledge.
Let me remind you of the Bill Bryson quote given
earlier in this program:
"You could call together all the brainiest people who are
alive now or have ever lived and endow them with the complete
sum of human knowledge, and they could not between them
make a single living cell..."
In our analogy--as imperfect as it is--the mind of God is
a reservoir of knowledge far greater than man can amass.
God could have thought through, planned, and designed every
detail of life, from the intricacies of cellular
structures to the complexities of life's chemical processes.
He had to design, as it were-- write the code of life--
that we call DNA.
With all that planned out, He could then simply speak the
instructions, and instead of an image on a computer screen
appearing, real life forms appeared at His command,
according to the very designs He had planned.
The point is, that while A.I. may be a terribly flawed
analogy, it can help us to see how every detail of life could
be planned out in the mind of God prior to speaking the word.
And when He did speak, the elements of the universe He
created obeyed His instructions.
God's mind and power are vastly superior to ours.
Life did not happen by chance-- it's far too complicated for
that, and scientists know it.
Only the mind of God, along with His endless power,
could create life.
One of my favorite quotes comes from Michael Behe
in the context of modern discoveries revealing the
incredible complexity of cellular life.
He writes:
"The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the
cell--to investigate life at the molecular level--
is a loud, clear, piercing cry of "design!"
The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it
must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in
the history of science....
This triumph of science should evoke cries of "Eureka!"
from ten thousand throats, should occasion much
hand-slapping and high-fiving, and perhaps even be an
excuse to take a day off.
But no bottles have been uncorked, no hands slapped.
Instead, a curious, embarrassed silence surrounds the stark
complexity of the cell.
When the subject comes up in public, feet start to shuffle,
and breathing gets a bit labored.
In private people are a bit more relaxed;
many explicitly admit the obvious but then stare at the
ground, shake their heads, and let it go at that.
Why does the scientific community not greedily embrace
its startling discovery?
Why is the observation of design handled with
intellectual gloves?
The dilemma is that while one side of the elephant is
labeled intelligent design, the other side might be
labeled God."
Thank you for watching.
And be sure to come back next week when Wallace Smith,
Rod McNair, and I will be right here ready to share with you
the incredible wonders of God, the teachings of Jesus Christ
and His coming Kingdom, and end-time Bible prophecies.
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