Have you ever wondered how life appeared on earth? This is a formidable question as stated by American Scientist in below quote. Click here to read article.
“Our progress on this question has been impeded by a formidable cognitive barrier. Because we perceive a deep gap when we think about the difference between inorganic matter and life, we feel that nature must have made a big leap to cross that gap.”
American Scientist goes on and clearly defines the essential problem in the below quote from the same article.
“The essential problem is that in modern living systems, chemical reactions in cells are mediated by protein catalysts called enzymes. The information encoded in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA is required to make the proteins; yet the proteins are required to make the nucleic acids. Furthermore, both proteins and nucleic acids are large molecules consisting of strings of small component molecules whose synthesis is supervised by proteins and nucleic acids. We have two chickens, two eggs, and no answer to the old problem of which came first.”
What evolutionist have is a Catch-22 issue. To overcome this problem, evolutionist introduce some chemical magic as quoted below from the same article.
“We argue that the appearance of life on our planet followed the creation of just such a channel, except that it was a channel in a chemical rather than a geological landscape. In the abiotic world of the early Earth, likely in a chemically excited environment, reservoirs of energy accumulated. In effect, electrons (along with certain key ions) were pumped up chemical hills. Like the water in our analogy, those electrons possessed stored energy. The “problem” was how to release it. In the words of Albert Szent-Gyorgi: “Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest.”
The chemical magic is introduced to overcome the problem of life. Is Evolution A Theory wants to see the facts and not the magic. Is Evolution A Theory finds many details that they do not discuss such as:
- How does geological erosion demonstrate cell complexity?
- What energy did the one cell use to continue its metabolism?
- What convinced the cell to reproduce?
- What natural selection force did the cell experience to motivated it to improve?
Just some practical questions. I think Joseph Heller understands history.
From a practical point of view. Complex systems do not just appear. They need continuous energy to continuously operate their metabolism (see Khan Academy article here). They do not reproduce themselves – they just operate.