Posted on 08/18/2016 6:34:03 AM PDT by fwdude
Colossians 1:16 "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:"
Not long ago, I was talking with another creationist about the impossibility of the first living cell coming into being through natural causes from non-living chemicals. I asked him, "Even if such a thing were possible, what would the first living cell eat?" Without missing a beat, my friend said: "Cellery?"
The two of us shared a good laugh together, but I can assure you that the origin of life is no laughing matter to evolutionists. Many evolutionists, in fact, prefer to sidestep the issue completely, asserting that evolution deals only with the origin of different species after that first living cell has somehow come into being.
But have you ever stopped to think about how that first living cell could have survived for even a millisecond? Unless its environment was perfectly suited to sustain that cell's life, it would have died in an instant. Unless the cell had necessary nutrients, it would likewise quickly perish. And unless it had the means to reproduce itself, that first living cell would be the last. Or, perhaps, hundreds of millions of years later, the second living cell would ooze out of a primordial soup of non-living chemicals … and once again die a millisecond later!
No, as the great scientist Louis Pasteur demonstrated in 1859, life comes only from life. Pasteur confirmed what the Bible tells us – that life on Earth came from the living God.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You for continuing to frustrate scientists who believe that life could have come about through natural causes. Reveal to them that life was created by Your Son. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
I’d present this a little differently because their are multiple biological miracles here.
I think the first cells were expected to live off sunlight. So, right out of the box they somehow mastered photosynthesis.
But later one cell decided that sunlight wasn’t good enough and it decided to chomp on the plant next door. That’s a huge change. plants don’t have digestive systems but animals that eat plants do. WHAM! It just happened.
Evolution requires more miracles than any other religion.
They lived on Gaea’s farts! (kidding, kidding, kidding)
Think of the sudden and catastrophic consequences of a sudden bloom of a bacteria which aggressively eats plastics. Talk about the ultimate weapon?!
Or a “rust bug”
>scientists who believe that life could have come about through natural causes
Why would anyone believe God is unnatural?
The first living cell would probably occur in a veritable soup of organic matter that it could use to grow off of. However that isn’t strictly a requirement as we know of a number of microorganisms in extreme environments that live off of inorganic matter with sufficient CO2 available to synthesize their own organics. The objection is so simplistic as to be laughable and demonstrates the ignorance of the writer.
Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
It’s a “scientific explanation” but in the context that insisting that what we know as natural processes must be the only thing that makes it go, or go in the direction that it goes.
Whatever kind of “evolution” this may be (and we can use the term figuratively of something that is manifestly discretely designed and built, as in “the evolution of the car from the Model T to the Mustang”) it does not act like anything Darwinian. It seems to thumb its nose at Darwin.
The technical term is “supernatural.”
The first living cell would have been formed of existing complex carbon and protein structures, so there would likely have been ample digestible “food” in the “primordial soup” that it lived in, IMO.
ahem, sunlight? organic chemicals (** life is not a prerequisite for organic chemicals... see comets) around volcanic vents or cometary impact sites?
** http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33720951
Carry out?
And thus may have existed our “Cellery.”
A huge argument for this having required supernatural help, is that whatever got a move on, somehow had to keep from getting digested, or decaying, itself while it did so.
I’ve never assembled a jigsaw puzzle yet by shaking it around in its box.
My question would be when did the first living cell decide it was more fun to “meet” other cells rather than dividing itself?
First cell? The first cell was caused by incarceration!
I’m working on one of those. So far, I can transport them in, but nothing’s come back yet...
I wish you would hurry up and finish the darn thing! They've been piling up in my garage!
And of course their DNA is similar to what?
“Bacteria in motion, baby, I’m gonna have to penalize you,
“Bacteria in motion, baby, you know that’s against the rules.”
;^)
Methane is derived from organic (living) material.
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