For atheists,
the universe and all that it contains is the product of mere chance, shaped by
mindless, undirected processes of nature without plan, purpose, or meaning;
and, ultimately, it does not point to the hand of a Creator.
• The laws of
physics, not the will of God, provide atheists with the real explanation as to
how life on earth came into being. The Big Bang was the inevitable consequence
of these laws, unaided by any external agency. Such reliance on physical laws
unavoidably ascribe to them creative power, when actually, physical laws do not
cause anything to happen. They are descriptive, not creative. Like all laws,
they must have a lawmaker.
• A scientific
law, according to its definition, is unbreakable (i.e., without exceptions) or
else it would not be a law. Yet, from the atheist view, right at its birth the
universe broke a basic physical law: SOMETHING CANNOT COME OUT OF NOTHING,
and life popped into existence, spontaneously, from nothing.
• Then the universe broke the well-established law of biogenesis: LIFE
COMES ONLY FROM LIFE AND REPRODUCES AFTER ITS OWN KIND, which totally rules
out spontaneous generation of life from non-living matter. Yet, since atheists
operate on the assumption that there is no God, they believe, as evolution
teaches, that non-living chemicals spontaneously evolved, over billions of years,
into living cells.
1. Evolutionists maintain that life began when lightning and heat
discharged into a primordial soup of chemicals, randomly transforming simple
organic molecules into larger, more complex biological molecules and eventually
into primitive cells. Cells then formed themselves into organisms, and
organisms into complex, sentient beings. Over billions of years, they branched
out into all current life forms, including human beings.
2. Before even the simplest of living cells can form, the organic
compounds that make up a cell and carry out life processes must exist. Living
organisms are primarily composed of 21 elements of varying percentages.
Spontaneous chemical evolution of the one-celled organism means that 21
naturally occurring, scattered elements would have had to gather and interact
at the appropriate time and place in a specific, precise sequence to form
precise amounts of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids (DNA and
RNA) — the four basic categories of molecules that make up the building blocks
of life.
3. All information necessary to build and maintain a single cell,
or a multicellular organism, is contained in its DNA molecules. Within its
double helix structure, DNA carries an enormous set of genetic instructions for
the formation and function of all living organisms. The very simplest life form
has about 500,000 base pairs (letters) of coded information within its DNA,
while a human genome has about 3,000,000,000 base pairs of DNA inside each body
cell. If they were printed as letters in a book, they would fill more than
500,000 pages. That is about 1,000 thick books. DNA molecules can store
information many millions of times more densely than existing technology for
digital storage. One single gram of DNA could be enough to hold a trillion
gigabytes of data for 2000 years.
4. To explain how life began, the origin of the information
necessary to build the first cell must first be known. Science asserts that
information is a non-material entity and cannot be created by matter.
Information can only originate from an intelligent source through a process of
conscious creative thought and not by chance, chaos, and mindless accidents.
There is no room for gradual development in the structure of DNA [the DNA is
highly complicated, organized, and accurate and must have been complete, perfect,
and fully functioning from the very first instant of its existence, without
involving a step-by-step formation or slow evolution over time].
5. Back in the time of Darwin, genes were not yet discovered. And
so far, no theory has explained the origin of the first life — it takes DNA to
make proteins, and it takes protein to make DNA. Obviously, neither could have
arisen spontaneously by chance chemistry. So how did the whole thing get
started?