Life is often portrayed as spontaneously arising from some sort
of "primordial soup". There it is ... quiet, tranquil,
warm nutrients in a primitive sea, a lightning strike in the distance
is imparting the energy of life ... soon life will be emerging to
the shores... Hold it, not so fast here!
To go from a barren lifeless planet to a one filled with living things,
we would have to pass through a number of stages:
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EARLY ATMOSPHERE -
For starters we need a favorable environment for life to evolve and
be sustained.
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SIMPLE ORGANIC MOLECULES -
We need a means of constructing the building blocks of life.
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LARGE MACRO-MOLECULES (proteins, DNA, RNA, etc.) -
Some the simple molecules must be assembled into biologically useful
large molecules.
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BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -
Biological systems such as energy conversion must be constructed.
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LIVING CELL -
And finally, all these molecules and systems must be assembled together
to form a highly complex living cell.
When each of these steps are examined scientifically,
we see that each has tremendous problems and requires large leaps of
faith to believe that they ever happened.
To explain the origin of life by non-supernatural means we must have
a plausible explanation for each of these steps.
An artist's conception of lighting striking a sea of organic soup
and then jumping to self-replicating life is woefully inadequate.
In fact, it is very misleading.
Although the origin of life by mechanistic means is routinely taken
for granted by the popular press, it is, in reality still a mystery
to evolutionary scientists.
Gish 1972
Gish 1984T
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