Creation Station
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Life from Space?
by Sean Meek, Director of Project CREATION
The foundational belief in the religion of evolution is that matter can
somehow change from non-living chemicals to living cells by itself.
This belief has been presented to the public as an almost automatic
process that happened on earth billions of years ago.
The problem for the evolutionists is that the more that is found out
about the structure and processes of cells, the more difficult it has
become to make up plausible stories about the supposed evolutionary
origin of life. In 1908 it was proposed that life on earth could have
been seeded from space. This idea was generally ignored until the
1960’s when molecular biologist Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winning
co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, revived the idea. It continued
to be ignored or ridiculed, because some experiments in the 1950’s by
Stanley Miller and others seemed to offer the hope that chemicals
really could just spontaneously form into amino acids and from there
into functioning cells. This research went on for
forty years as evolutionists tried to make up some kind of story that
wasn't totally impossible in order to explain the origin of life on
earth. That this attempt has failed is seen in the publication of the
cover story in "Scientific American" of July 1999.
The story "Life’s Far-Flung Raw Materials" speculates that molecules
from comets drifted to earth billions of years ago and then
somehow sprung to life. This story signals the
acceptance by the evolutionary establishment of the idea of panspermia,
life originating from outer space, because the facts simply do not
allow for life to havespontaneously arisen on earth from some kind of
"prebiotic (non-living) chemical soup". ' Considering the way the
prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of
life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a
shock to realise that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its
existence.' Dr. Michael Denton, molecular biologist, Evolution: A
Theory in Crisis, 1985, p. 261. So with no facts to
go on, storytelling takes over.
What does any of this have to do with true science? Nothing, life from
outer space is the kind of thing you see in science fiction movies.
What it really means is that the evolutionary establishment will grasp
at any straw in order to hold on to the religion of evolution.
