Answers to Questions - Creation vs. Evolution

Don’t some books say we’ve created the building blocks of life - supporting Evolution?

UNFORTUNATELY YES - BUT THEY ARE MISLEADING. They lead to the wrong conclusion. To create the building blocks for life, some 50 amino acids need to be produced - all in the same "orientation" (e.g. "left-handed"). Likewise many nucleotides need to produced in the proper orientation (e.g. "right-handed"). Some people have developed A FEW (2) of the amino acids. Yet they are always produced in equal quantities of right and left handed orientation. No random system is known to separate them. To create a reproducible cell, a chain of hundreds of the right amino acids must be put together, then bonded with a similar chain of perfect nucleotides. The statistical odds of this happening by chance is absurd. Microbiologists have calculated the odds of it happening ONCE would be like winning 1.4 MILLION lotteries in a row.

Apart from that impossibility, the few amino acids produced in experiments, were in a highly contrived environment - quite unlike early earth. AND the major product produced was always vast quantities of tar - which would destroy creation of cells. Then keep in mind that amino acids produced were a very small percentage. There is much more evidence refuting these experiments. That’s why no significant advancements have been made since Stanley Miller’s first experiment decades ago - although MANY have tried. Finally, suppose all components of a reproductive cell did somehow come together... Something still has to make it "alive" (like winding a watch). The evolutionary conclusion from this old experiment needs to be discarded.

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