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The Origin of Life
The creation of life is tremendously complex:
- Requires both
DNA (the plan) and
RNA (the copy mechanism)
at the same time
- The average protein consists of a chain of 300-500 amino acids (of which there are 20 kinds). The odds of the spontaneous formation of a working protein is zero.
- For example, odds of getting just 200 amino acids in correct order by chance = 1 in 20**200 = 1 in 10**260
- There are only 10** 80 atoms in the whole universe!
Notes:
The gap from non-life to life is very big. It requires both DNA and RNA to be present, working cooperatively, at the same time. Each of these structures are very complex. To get around this problem evolutionists say the first life may have been RNA-only, but this is pure speculation (and has its own scientific problems). To date man has created only the simplest low-level building block of life in the laboratory (most of the amino acids). And if he does create life one day, it will involve the use of complex equipment and well thought out procedures, documenting the necessity for intelligence to make it happen. No “warm little pond” will do!
The complexity of life is daunting, as a simple calculation of the odds for forming a working protein by chance in a hypothetical bath of amino acids shows. This level of complexity was vividly described by Fred Hoyle, proponent and defender of the steady-state theory of the universe, who said that a living organism emerging by chance from a pre-biotic soup is about as likely as “a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.”