Evolution in space: hopeful philosophy and pipe dreams?
There is a trend in evolutionary thinking to push the origin of life into space. It’s an idea which is becoming more and more popular.
Evolutionists believe that the early atmosphere of the earth was made up of a “soup” of chemicals-a “bath”-that would be toxic to us, but in their eyes would be necessary for the formation of the amino acids that were the beginning of life. We are supposed to believe that through chance and an inordinate amount of time, the right chemicals came together to form the amino acids, which are the building blocks of life.
To evolutionists, it seems the formation of life is a kind of manifest destiny. Not only did the proper chemicals come together in the right fashion to form amino acids, but those amino acids somehow assembled themselves into a living machine. Such a formation would be on the order of a “miracle,” albeit a naturalistic one.
However, even if such a “miracle” occurred, we have to deal with the problem of “animation.” Something has to jump start the engine of life. Think of the monster in the movie, Frankenstein. In one very dramatic scene we see a lifeless body lifted to the roof top of the lab. Next, the attending scientist waits for lightning to strike. When it does, his “creation” becomes animate.
These kinds of ideas stem from philosophical naturalism and naturalistic ideas represent an impossible alchemy. Just forming amino acids, let alone linking them together in the proper sequence, seems to defy the law of physics. Biologically speaking, the probability of creating life from inorganic material is on a par with turning lead into gold. Pushing Evolution into space is not going to make it any more probable. –Chris of the museandthescribe.com
Articles like the one in your post, Chris, really crack me up.
Some observations from the “article”:
“Nobody knows how life on Earth began, but the primordial soup likely got a lot of its ingredients from space.”
I like to point out the obvious, here. Nobody knows how life on earth began, but two things we do know: that there was a primordial soup from which life emerged and that the ingredients necessary for this to happen probably came from space. I just think that’s an unintentionally humorous statement.
Second, anybody want to hazard a guess as to how fragile these extraterrestrial amino acids are? Think they might be susceptible to heat? How about extreme heat? How about heat high enough to vaporize atoms or molecules on the meteorite’s surface? That’s exactly how hot these things get on entry. Houston, we’ve got a problem: Unless our amino E.T.’s are arriving in a space ship or possibly a heat resistant test tube, the acids would be in such poor quality by the time they landed in “some hot little pond,” they’d be unusable.
On top of that, how do they know that the space rocks weren’t seeded after they arrived, a much more likely scenario given the extreme conditions.
Third, the same article states that the “scientists” found two samples with more than ten times the concentration of amino acids found in other similar samples. Uh…that little bit of information is absolutely useless to me. I think it’s deliberately misleading. Ten times higher than what? For all I know the concentration may have been so small as to amount to precisely squat, or so large as to be a volumetric measurement equivalent to the capacity of Noah’s Ark. But I’d bet my next check that the amount was sub-minuscule squat at that. Otherwise, they’d be trumpeting this “great” find from the skies along with the volumetric measurements and a working example that even “uneducated,” “pig ignorant” creationists could understand.
There’s a whole lot more hubris in that piece, but I’ll spare you the rant.
It seems to me that turning lead to gold is almost infintely easier than throwing a bunch of aminos in a box and shaking them until they come together in the right order to produce a living thing. Lead is only one element. Through “natural” radioactive bombardment it at least is possible to convert individual atoms of lead to gold.