Life As We Know It Nearly Created in Lab : Response

Nearly is not Nearly Enough!

Fox News had in their main head line today “Life As We Know It Nearly Created in Lab.”Tuesday, January 13, 2009. By Robert Roy Britt. I think the headline is highly inaccurate with it’s use of the word “nearly.” I think an objective scientist after reading this news story would also object to the word “nearly.”

One of life's greatest mysteries is how it began. Scientists have pinned it down to roughly this:
Some chemical reactions occurred about 4 billion years ago — perhaps in a primordial tidal soup or maybe with help of volcanoes or possibly at the bottom of the sea or between the mica sheets — to create biology.

Notice the words Perhaps, maybe and possibly. These are words that are filled in textbooks on Science. It is interesting the article does not address the "possibility" of panspermia or seeds of life from other planets.

Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel suggested that cellular life arose from other planets they call it the frozen accident theory. This is interesting because of Crick and Watson's ground breaking discoveries involving DNA. The evidence of incredible complexity in a single cell demands one to either consider a designer or ignore the creator all together.

Now scientists have created something in the lab that is tantalizingly close to what might have happened.It's not life, they stress, but it certainly gives the science community a whole new data set to chew on.

The researchers, at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., created molecules that self-replicate and even evolve and compete to win or lose. If that sounds exactly like life, read on to learn the controversial and thin distinction.

This paragraph describes intelligent design. The molecular enzymes were placed in a specific place under controlled laboratory arrangements. Read further:

DNA is the software of life, the molecules that pack all the genetic information of a cell. DNA and the genes within it are where mutations occur, enabling changes that create new species.

RNA is the close cousin to DNA. More accurately, RNA is thought to be a primitive ancestor of DNA.

RNA can't run a life form on its own, but 4 billion years ago it might have been on the verge of creating life, just needing some chemical fix to make the leap.

In today's world, RNA is dependent on DNA for performing its roles, which include coding for proteins.

Once again observe the phrase RNA is thought to be a primitive ancestor of DNA. The assumption is given that life is 4 billion years old. How could this be? It all about assumptions in order for evolution to take place.

The world of imagination takes place because today's world is not conducive to creating life. The picture to the left demonstrates an artists imagination of how the world once existed. Notice how big the moon is.

How convenient for the atheist to place so much authority on blind chance for life to form. -John Martin. www.creationmoment.blogspot.com.