Pre-biotic Soup

You may have seen an article in the media about how OOL (origin of Life) scientists have  conducted  recent experiments that places the world at the very edge of creating life, or at least having a full understanding of how life began on our planet. The reality of this is… there is nothing further from the truth.

The recipe of how this works is always the same. Scientists will take preexisting materials, mix them together in a stew, heat it up and then report that the “soup” that they have concocted does indeed have some of the characteristics found in living organisms. Then they take this “revelation” to the news media, where it is hyped up and spun to create the illusion that we are close to the ultimate understanding of origins of life.

A homespun example of this would be to go to the store and buy some chicken halves and gizzards. Then add some feathers, and some chicken broth, heat it up in a pan, cool it down, heat it up again and voila you have the prebiotic chemistry of a living chicken. What you really have is a hot mess. There is none of the informational systems necessary for life to exist found in this type of experimentation.

The truth is nobody knows where all of the complexity of the massive amounts of information for life come from. We know how DNA works, but we do not know how it got there in the first place. The only acceptable theory is that it was originally designed by intelligence.

 I know that some will scoff at the idea, claiming that this a God in the gaps argument. However, this argument is based on what we realize that the information found in DNA is necessary for life to exist. So the theory is based on what we know that we need to know. It is not born out of sheer ignorance of the subject at hand.

In addition, this idea does not in any way impede our need for further research of discovery. The more that we know about something, the more we know that we don’t know and that we need to advance in our knowledge and understanding. My thoughts on this matter is that I would like us to discover all that we can, without losing the spiritual dimension of being amazed at creator God’s creation of life. That is how good science should work, marvel at the works of God, then try to discover how He did it. Any attempt to exclude God from the equation is sorely lacking.