Creator: Can't life just happen?

Why is it necessary that there's a Creator? Doesn't science show that life can just happen all on it's own given enough time? No. Not even close.

Watch these videos 1 at a time and answer each question below on your own notebook.

 

Subject 1: The Building Blocks

Over the years I've heard scientist make all sorts of really exciting sounding claims in their press announcements that fell flat on closer examination. This is the most prevalent in "Origin of Life" research. Also known as "Chemical Evolution" or "Abiogenesis" this is the theory that life arose on it's own without a creator or supernatural cause. Just natural processes over vast amounts of time. You would think this was certain fact the way it's taught in most biology and science textbooks today, but is any of it true? Does life just... happen? 

Watch the video below from our brothers and sisters at Discovery Science. Don't worry about the details you don't understand (it's even more complicated than he's saying), pay attention to the logic. Think things through and answer the questions below.

Subject 1 Questions

 1. Have origin of life scientists created the building blocks for life under natural conditions?

2. What are some of the problems with the results they get in their experiments? Use your own words.

3. Does more time help their argument?

 4. If scientists can't form the building blocks of life in controlled laboratory environments, does that make an accidental chemical evolution seem more or less likely?

 

Subject 2: Biopolymers - building with the blocks

Building materials aren't much good if they can't get into the right place in the right arrangement. A pile of lumber isn't a house. So how do the building blocks of life get into the right place and in the right arrangement without anyone doing the arrangement. That pile of lumber will never self assemble into a cabin, no matter how long we watch, and in the first 10 years the wood will begin to rot. This problem is much worse in the biology of life. Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Life is WAY more complicated than scientists originally thought when they came up with "Chemical Evolution"

Subject 2 Questions

1. Have scientists created biopolymers under natural conditions?

2. Without long strands of biopolymers is life possible?

3. If scientists can't make the building blocks, or even the parts they need to build if they cheat to get the blocks, can life be an accident? 

4. What do you think about life and how amazing the God who created it must be after these first two videos?

 

Subject 3: Cell Membranes - Special Doors

To keep all the things required for life safe the cell needs a VERY special home, with Very special doors. Every cell needs this barrier keeping it from all the things that are trying to kill it, and it needs it from the very beginning. No special membrane no life. Watch this video and answer the questions below.

Woah. Who knew the membrane of the simplest cell was so complicated?

Subject 3 Questions

1. Things with specialized purposes usually require a designer. How could all these special doors come together in the same place at the same time to protect life inside that doesn't even exist yet... by accident?

2. In all 3 of these subjects so far the scientists are cheating to start and cheating to get the results. Is this how science is supposed to work?

3. What reason could these scientists have for being dishonest in their approach to this subject that's different in other parts of science?

4. If the science actually suggests that life is far too complicated to be an accident, why wouldn't they just follow the science and look for more signs of a creator?

 

Subject 4: Energy - The right charger for the job

Without the tools to harvest and properly use energy, life can't exist. Can life just happen when there are so many requirements to power it? Watch this video and answer the questions below.

Subject 4 Questions

1. Can raw energy create the machines needed to harness the power in the first place?

2. Looking at all these biological machines needed for the simplest cell, can we reasonably still consider life an accident?

3. Who else but God could create these micro machines all at the same time already functioning with specific purpose if human scientists can't do it in a labratory?

4. What do you think? Could something as complicated as life just accidentally form with all the variables that can kill it?

 

Subject 5: Replication - Do you copy?

Without reproduction and replication life can't continue, even if it miraculously started on it's own.

On the micro biological scale this problem is much, much, worse. Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Subject 5 Questions

1. Without the machines to do the copying and correcting, does it even matter if the DNA or RNA can form on it's own?

2. Why would scientists make it sound like they have more evidence than they really do to support their claims?

3. With all these things working against life, and time working against it too, doesn't the science suggest not only a creator, but one with wisdom and knowledge beyond anything we could imagine?

 

I spent 20 years as an Atheist trying to prove these things wrong. In the end I had to admit that I was wrong instead. Life needs a creator. There's really no doubt about it. When science acknowledges God, it progresses much faster than when we pridefully deny Him. I've learned to give God the benefit of the doubt when science makes bold claims, and you should too. Trust in the Bible. The more we know, the more we see it was always true. Thanks for studying with us! Go give our brothers and sisters at Discovery Science a follow on YouTube and let them know we sent you and appreciate their wonderful videos!