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Read the chapter on how the chemicals of the early Earth combined to form amino acids. A similar environment can be duplicated in a laboratory. Good stuff.

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Really,What4, science has come a long way since you slept through all your science classes a hundred years ago.


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I ask for proof or evidence of raw materials being made to come to life, and you point me to the ability we have of making amino acids from chemicals and to the progress of science. We have been able to make nitric, sulfuric, and phosphoric acid, and now we have progressed to being able to make amino acids. Give the man a hand that was able to make them. Give him a Pulitzer Prize! Now let him make a living organism. As impressive as man’s ability seems to you, and as complicated as an amino acid might be, it is still an impossible leap from acids to the simplest living organism. We can analyze the chemicals that make up a living organism, but name me any time we have come close to making a living organism from chemicals. If man cannot do the impossible, then why do you believe that a coincidental accident of nature can? Amino acids are a far cry from a living organism. I bet we could make sugar if we tried hard. You keep missing the point. Just because the same chemicals that make up an organism can be found in the natural environment, it doesn’t mean that the organism can be made from chemicals by mere coincidental chance. Even if the simplest dead organism had a chance of 1 in 1 billion with the billionth power of being formed by an accidental spontaneous combustion with all the right ingredients being together at just the right time and in just the right proportion, what are the odds of that simple organic matter then coming to life, and then surviving long enough to advance to the next stage? I don’t doubt that every chemical that makes up a human being can be found in the natural environment, because my most reliable source of information tells me that the human being was made from the earth. Our body can be analyzed to determine the elements and compounds that make it up. That means nothing. The body is impossible to be made by an accident of nature, and the more we learn about it the more illogical this premise becomes. But beyond that, tell me what elements makes up the soul or the spirit. What raw materials can produce the life that drives the body into action? Aren’t life and the body separate? What is life and where does it come from? The body is lifeless without the soul and spirit. The brain is of no use on its own, without the driving force of life behind it. Doesn’t a lifeless body have the same chemical makeup that a living body has? What chemical can restore life to a dead body?

We can analyze the material that makes up the building blocks used to make the pyramids in Egypt, yet why do we always assume that the pyramids were made by an intelligent being rather than existing by mere coincidental chance? How much more are the complicated makings of a simple one celled organism than that of a pyramid, never mind the mind blowing complicated makings of a human being? Can emotions, intelligence, and the sense of touch and sight be made from chemicals? Which is the most complicated… a computer or the human brain? Which would be easiest to happen by mere accident? The computer as we know it today is a much more advanced accomplishment than producing a simple amino acid, but there was no Pulitzer Prize given for that. Those who believe in the theory of evolution will applaud and award the simplest of findings, because their impossible leap of faith is going to take every ounce of help it can get. I know how much you want to believe in your theory. But I believe you should get real and face the facts. What you believe in is impossible beyond imagination.

Science may have come a long way, but those pursuing a course in life to prove their favorite theory will tend to be biased, and will overlook the obvious when it destroys their credibility. Logic is logic no matter who presents it. Logic that is built on an illogical premise will remain illogical no matter who presents it or no matter how many Pulitzer Prizes are given by others who share their same persuasion. Mankind will continue to learn and impress himself as time goes on. There will continue to be educated fools in our society, no matter how educated they become. Those who want to prove what they believe will gather all the evidence that helps their cause and will ignore all the rest. Those who desire to know the truth will accept it, even when it destroys their life’s work and personal ambition. The truth is not always easy to swallow. The educated and proud often have the most difficulty in swallowing it.

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