How does animate material appear from inanimate?  How would DNA and genomic software and operating systems, appear from nothing?  Why would nothing create a brain, consciousness and morality?  The Religion of Darwin and its apostles don’t know.  Yet they call their faith in the impossible, ‘science’. 

Charles Darwin recognized the origin-of-life problem:

“In 1863, Charles Darwin opined in a letter to a friend that contemplating the origin of life was “mere rubbish thinking” and that “one might as well think of [the] origin of matter.” Many researchers today would agree with Darwin. And yet, whereas cosmologists know how particles, elements, and many molecules formed after the big bang, biologists still struggle to explain how inorganic molecules turned into the stuff of life.” (Mann, Adam, Inner Workings: Making headway with the mysteries of life’s origins, 118(16):e2105383118, April 2021, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105383118)

The extract above was from Darwin answering Oken’s theory of abiogenesis, namely; that organisms would spontaneously generate on the beds of seas and lakes from some sort of ‘polarising force’.  Darwin replied, “It will be some time before we see ‘slime, snot or protoplasm &’ …generating a new animal… It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of the origin of life; one might as well think of [the] origin of matter.”  This rebuttal is sensible, given that material and chemicals by themselves do not produce life.  A dead cat with all its cells intact (assume it was strangled), lying in the sun receiving ‘energy’, will still be dead, and will still decompose. 

Cellular formation and complexity was unknown in Darwin’s mid-19^th century era.  Yet Darwin and ‘scientists’ knew, pace Pasteur, that abiogenesis was a non-science.  Darwin even admits in his book Origin of Species, that life has to be created by intelligence (last paragraph), just as a piece of treated spruce or maple is cut and designed to make a violin which is then formed and stringed to create a complex instrument emitting sound.  It is unlikely that a violin self creates and forms.  But the cult of Darwin persists, even going back to Oken’s nonsense that life self-creates on the beds of oceans, rivers and lakes. 

The Newest Attempts to Map the Origin of Life

“Several new proposals to explain the origin of life were summarized in an article published recently. In PNAS on 20 April 2021, Adam Mann reviewed origin-of-life theories in his “inner workings” essay, “Making headway with the mysteries of life’s origins.” He discussed lakes with relatively high concentrations of phosphorus compounds, and speculated that such lakes “may have been commonplace in the prebiotic Earth, providing the phosphorus-rich environments for biology and life to take hold.”

In reality, phosphorus naturally tends to combine with other atoms, such as calcium, to form minerals like apatite, thereby rendering it unavailable for biomolecules. This problem can be circumvented in some lakes where the concentration of unbound (thus bioavailable) phosphorus is very high. That may solve one problem. This is important because phosphorus is a key part of the backbone of DNA and RNA, as well as central to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which cells require for energy.

But life requires much more than phosphorus. About 25 different elements must be bioavailable to produce life. Additionally, as Mann admits, all of these chemicals required for life “also need to be present in high enough concentrations in a particular environment to become incorporated into biomolecules” necessary to produce life.”

Available chemicals, including water, by themselves do not make life.  DNA and RNA complexity are still not fully understood.  Many ideas about DNA have been proven incorrect (eg junk DNA), and the very nature of their composition and inherent complexity makes it absurd that they self-formed.  There is simply not enough Darwinian time for a cell to self-create, self-heal, combine with other cells and form complex systems of purpose and functionality.  The Origin of Life and the amazingly complicated world of micro-biology disprove the Religion of Darwin’s claim to science.