Why Evolution Fails in the Origin of Life

Evolution is a process that appeals to many atheists as an explanation for how we got here because it seems to eliminate God from the process. When Darwin proposed it 150 years ago He initially meant only to explain scientifically the process of how animal species change in time to adapt to differing conditions that allow them to survive. As the theory  became accepted within the scientific community, people of faith realized that there was a conflict between his theory and the accepted biblical version of man's origin. Science and religion has been at odds ever since over this conflict.

 The major problem with evolution is not the process of adaptability and change, but the origin of life itself, and that is where evolution fails. Most people who are not biologists or geneticists view the theory as saying that the changes in animal and biological species within the last billion years or so, are the most important and hardest to explain, ignoring the origin of life itself. They fail to realize the complexity of the single cell as the real problem with evolution.

 Once the cell was formed in the distant past, and reproduction and survivability was assured, it continued to survive by changing and adapting to new conditions. It became a multi-celled organism, then developed the various organs necessary for survival, and finally became the first water and land animals that eventually evolved into the millions of species that we see today on our planet.

 That process, to some, is accounted for in the Bible, in the passages that say "And God said "Let the earth bring forth...". Little has been said about how the "simple" cell came to be in the first place.

 What is not understood by the general public is that a single celled organism is 99% as complex as a human being and has all the basic necessities for life and reproduction that we have and consider so "developed" in ourselves. Getting to the point of being self-sustaining, and the ability to reproduce, was the "real" miracle of life, and becomes the hardest part of the evolution process to explain, even given the 4.5 billion years the earth has been in existence.

 If we compare every living organism to a computer system, the single cell would be the CPU chip of the system, where the memory, registers, monitors, drives, and keyboard would represent the "complex" organism. Where would the system be without the CPU, the chip that made the modern personal computer possible? Yet many people look inside a computer "case" and see the various workings and think that is the substance of the computer. They don't even begin to conceive of the complexity of the CPU chip that contains millions of microscopic electronic components that are so small that they are invisible to the eye, but so necessary in the process, and represent the real intelligence of the system. Before integrated circuits became available, the components of this tiny chip would fill a large room full of equipment, in order to accomplish a purpose that was in reality, only a tiny fraction of what a modern CPU chip is capable of doing.

 The "evolution" of the modern computer represents a very good analogy for the evolution of complex organisms on this planet. The real work of constructing ANY computer is in the design of the CPU, one of the most complex tasks man has ever accomplished.

 In a like manner, the REAL work of constructing any form of life that can process energy, reproduce, adapt, and survive, is in "designing" the first single celled organism. If we allow that it took a billion years to "evolve" from the first single celled organisms to complex, intelligent species like ourselves, how much longer did it take to get to the point of the first cell from the murky, chemical filled, seas, as atheistic evolutionists are so quick to claim. There simply wasn't enough time in the history of the planet for that to happen.

 Its like going to Mars and finding a CPU processor chip lying in the dirt on its surface, with the name "INTEL" stamped on it, and claiming that in the billions of years of Mar's existence, the elements just came together, accidentally, to form it. What most uninformed atheists fail to realize is the complexity of the cell. It consists of a computer code of thousands of bytes of information in the form of its DNA, some processor that we still can't identify or understand, to read the code, and hundreds of tiny chemical factories inside the cell to carry out the instructions given by the processor. To them, it all "just happened" to come together.

 As a mathematics major in college, I was required to take some probability courses and was taught how to calculate the odds of certain events happening. Fortunately I also had some organic chemistry courses, and from studying the billions of permutations, and possibilities, of the organic acids and highly complex molecules "just coming together" to form the "processors" and "computer code" contained in a single cell to create a life form, I can conclude that while, not an impossibility, it is highly unlikely that it would happen in a trillion years. I feel qualified to make that statement considering my education in those fields, and the fact that I have spent the past 30 years also being involved in computer technology as a consultant and programmer.

 Computers are designed by intelligent creatures and I see a modern, intelligent, human being as having all the components of a computer, but with a vastly superior form of technology. In my appreciation for the beauty of a modern quad-core Pentium processor computer, I have in turn learned to appreciate, and be in awe of, the beauty of all intelligent life forms, that represent so much more intelligence behind them. They had to have been created only by "intelligent design".

  As the poem I remember from elementary school goes:

 "Poems are made by fools like me. Only God can make a tree".

For the book from which these thoughts were taken, visit:

http://www.beyondgenesis.com