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Subject: Evidence that life came about naturally.

The primeeval soup theory is an experiment that shows that amino acids can be created from a mixture of gases thought to be the same as those at the begining of the earth when an electrical discharge is passed through the gases (this would take the form of lightning.)

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Dear Anonymous:

I am very familiar with the experiments you reference. They were done by Stanley Miller in 1953. However, today even those scientists who believe in evolution have admitted that Stanley Miller's experiments do not show that life could arise from chemicals. The experiments produced no relevant results.

The experiment did produce amino acids. Yes, amino acids are the building blocks of life, but there's more to it than that. Amino acids come in left-hand and right-hand varieties. Life is composed of 100% left-hand amino acids. Anything that is alive, such as you, or trees, or sardines has no right-hand amino acids.

When something dies the amino acids slowly become 50% left-handed and 50% right-handed. That's one way police labs determine the time of death, by measuring the ratio of right and left-handed amino acids. So non-life (death) is characterized by 50% left-handed and 50% right-handed amino acids.

What the experiment created was 50% left-handed and 50% right-handed amino acids. It created death, not life. The proteins of life can not be created from a 50-50 mixture of amino acids because the right-handed amino acids interfere with the formation of required proteins.

But that's not the biggest problem. For amino acids to be assembled into something that leads to life (assuming both left and right-handed amino acids are available), requires a plan. It is a very complex process, which in life is controlled by RNA. RNA contains the information (instructions) for assembling amino acids into proteins to make life. So evolution science now postulates that RNA had to have existed before amino acids were created. Where does the RNA come from? They don't have an answer. But we know that information (RNA) does not come from nothing.

So the experiment that produced amino acids did not produce the amino acids that were needed for life, and it totally leaves open the question of where the information for assembling proteins came from.

We know that information requires an intelligence. We can look at something that has been built, such as a house or Ferrari, and recognize that it took human intelligence (information) to create that object. No matter how many millions of years you allow, you will never see a house or Ferrari come into existence "naturally". It takes an intelligence to design and build them. We see the same thing when we look at life. Life requires information.

When God created life He included everything that was needed. All left-handed amino acids and the RNA (information) to provide the instructions for the amino acids to be assembled into all the different proteins that are needed.

I hope I have been helpful.

Yours in Christ,
Steve
Mission to America

P.S. Since 1953 some scientists have tried to get around the problems of the 50/50 mixture of proteins and no RNA. They have set up experiments that started with 100% left-handed amino acids and in which the scientist put in the information needed to assemble proteins. It still didn't work. Read "Origin of life: the Polymerization Problem", a scientific paper on this subject.