“Directed by All-powerful selection, chance becomes a sort of providence, which, under the cover of atheism, is not named but which is secretly worshipped.” (1) Grasse
“Life from non life”?
“Life Science” ch. 1-2. “Where does life come from?” pp. 10,11
In this chapter the old medieval theory of spontaneous generation is discussed. The text states, “For much of history people believed that living things came from non- living matter, an idea called “spontaneous generation”. The text goes on to explain, quite rightly, how Redi and later Pasteur clearly disproved this idea. It then relates how this medieval belief was replaced by the idea of biogenesis, meaning life can only come from life. This is often referred to as the First Law of Biology.
Strangely enough the text then goes on to suggest that life did indeed come from non life, sometime in the distant past. In other words, after praising Redi and Pasteur for dispelling the medieval myth of spontaneous generation, the textbook appears to be promoting this myth as a reality.
This is a very large problem for people who want to believe in evolution. As the Nobel Prize winning scientist George Wald suggested, it would have been far better for evolutionists if both Pasteur and Redi had been proven wrong. Why? For the simple reason that belief in evolution demands a faith in spontaneous generation and that requires a violation of the first law of biology, the law of biogenesis.
Despite contrived experiments by men like Miller, empirical science knows nothing of life emerging spontaneously from dead matter. And remember, even if the many intelligent scientists using their brains, test tubes, and millions of dollars did succeed at creating life, this would not be the same as life emerging spontaneously (by itself) without the “help” of an intelligent designer.
Dead matter does not form itself into complex biological machines, let alone machines capable of self reproduction. Why would it?
At any rate, at the very beginning, it would appear that the theory of evolution goes dead against the first law of Biology, “Life begets Life”. If life arose from dead matter in the distant past, Man certainly didn’t observe it. But we do know for a fact, it’s not happening today. Therefore it definitely can’t be claimed as a fact of empirical or observable operational science.
(1) Pierre Rene Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms, Academic Press N.Y. p. 107
The Problem of Spontaneous Generation; Quotes (only evolutionist’s quoted)
“No matter how large the environment one considers, life cannot have had a random beginning…There is no way in which we can expect to avoid the need for information, no way in which we can simply get by with a bigger and better organic soup, as we ourselves hoped might be possible a year or two ago.”
Hoyle and Wickramasinge, Evolution from Space as quoted by Thaxton, Bradery,Olsen p.l96. (Hoyle was Nobel Prize winning scientist)
“And so we see that even if we believe that the “building blocks” are available, they do not make spontaneously make proteins, at least not by chance. The origin of life by chance in a primeval soup is impossible in probability…” Yockey, Information Theory and Molecular Biology’, p. 2 79
“…calculable values of the probability of spontaneous origin are so low that the final probabilities are still vanishingly small.” Morowitz, Energy Flow in Biology, p. 12
“More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields of chemical and molecular evolution, have led to a better perception of the immensity of the problem of the origin of life rather than to its solution.”
Klaus Dose, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 13 (4), 348, 1988
“If all the matter in space consisted of DNA molecules of the structural complexity of the bacterial genome, with random sequences, then the chances of finding among them a bacterial genome or something resembling one would still be completely negligible.” Kuppers, Information and the Origin of Life, the MIT Press, 1990, np.59-60
“I have said for years that speculations about the origins of life lead to no useful purpose as even the simplest living system is far too complex to be understood in terms of the extremely primitive chemistry scientists have used in their attempts to explain the unexplainable…” Earnest Chain, Nobel Prize winning biochemist. Quoted by R. Clark in The Life of Earnest Chain, pg. 148.
