From the booklet -  In the beginning... SOUP?
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"Scientists have not been able to cause amino acids dissolved in water to join together to form proteins. The energy-requiring chemical reactions that join amino acids are reverible and do not occur spontaneously in water. However, most scientists no longer argue that the first proteins assembled spontaneously in water. Instead, they now tell us that the initial macromolecules were composed of RNA, and that RNA later catalyzed the formation of proteins." George B. John, Peter H. Raven, Biology, Principles & Explorations, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1996, p. 235.
 
"...water greatly interfers with the linking of amino acids and nucleotides into chains, a crucial step in the origin og life." Iris Fry, The Emergence of Life on Earth, 2000, p. 245
 
"...no one has yet succeeded in creating RNA." Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth, Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, 2000, p. 65.
 
School textbook -
"First, RNA nucleotides formed from simple gas molecules in much the same way as in experiments similar to those done by Miller and Urey. Nucleotides than assembled spontaneously into small chains...These small chains were able to make copies of themselves. Once replicating molecules like these appear, natural selection and evolution are possible." Holt, Annotated Teacher's Edition, Biology, Visualizing Life, 1994, p. 201.   
 
School textbook -
"Perhaps RNA was the first self-replicating information-storage molecule. After it formed, it could also have catalyzed the assembly of the first ptoteins."  George B. John, Peter H. Raven, Biology, Principles & Explorations, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1996, p. 230.
 
 
"Though a few organic substances--for instance, certain simple amino-acids--can form relatively easily under prebiotic conditions, other biochemical building blocks, such as nucleotides and lipids, require for their synthesis a 'real factory'... The synthesis of these substances involves a series of reactions, each reaction following the previous one in utmost accuracy."  Iris Fry, The Emergence of Life on Earth, 2000, p. 126, 176-177.
 
"Some of the steps leading to the systhesis of DNA and RNA can be duplocated in the laboratory, others can not."  Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth, Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, 2000, p. 63.
 
"The machine, dubbed Blue Gene, will be turned loose ona single problem. The computer will try to model the way a human protein folds into a particular shape that gives it its unigue biological properties." Justin Gillis, The Sunday Oregonian, June 4, 2000, A5.
 
"To make proteins, agents known as ribosomes connect amino acids into long strings. These strings loop and fold around each other in a variety of ways. However, only one of these many ways will allow the protein to function properly." November 2001, IBM Research News, October 1, 2001.  
 
"...proteins fold into highly complex, three-dimensional shape that determines their function. Any change in the shape dramatically alters the function of a protein, and even the slightest change in the folding process can turn a desirable protein into a disease." http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/press_release.html
 
The computer running 24/7 will take "about one year to simulate the complete folding of a typical protein."[ where as a living cell performs the task in less then a second.] Robert F. Service, Science, 12/17/99, p. 2250
 
"...newly minted proteins contain an amino acid string that determines their eventual home." Tom A. Rapoport of Harvard Medical School, Science News, 10/16/99, Vol. 156 Issue 16, p. 246. See also Britannica Biography Collection, Guenter Blbel.
 
"Misplacing a protein is more seriuos than losing a letter, however. There are diaeases where proteins are mistargeted in cells." Rapoport, Science News, 10/16/99, Vol. 156 Issue 16, p. 246.  See also Britannica Biography Collection, Guenter Blbel.
 
"The Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Dr. Guenter Blbel of The Rockfeller University in New York." for the discovery of the amino address tags.
 http://www.iff.com/Internet.nsf/0/07F39331BDDE9A6C85256C790054E6C6 . 
 
 
Protein production is regulated by a turn "on",  turn "off" function.  Susan Aldridge, The thread of Life, The Story of Genetic Enginerring, Cambridge University Press, 1996. p. 47-53.
 
 
The cell has a double layer shell of lipids (fats). Bruce Alberts, Essential Cell Biology, An Introduction to the Molecular Biology of the Cell, 1998, p. 348, 363.
 
"Though a few organic substances--for instance, certain simple amino-acids--can form relatively easily under prebiotic conditions, other biochemical building blocks, such as nucleotides and lipids, require for their synthesis a 'real factory'... The synthesis of these substances involves a series of reactions, each reaction following the previous one in utmost accuracy."  Iris Fry, The Emergence of Life on Earth, 2000, p. 126, 176-177.
 
"A living cell is a self-reproducing system of molecules held inside a container. The container is the plasma membrane - a fatty film so thin and transparent that it cannot be seen directly in the light microscope. It is simple in construction, being based on a sheet of lipid molecules....Although it serves as a barrier to prevent the contents of the cell from escaping and mixing with the surrounding medium...the plasma membrane does much more than that. Nutrients have to pass inward across it if the cell is to survive and grow, and waste products have to pass outward. Thus the membrane is penetrated by highly selective channels and pumps, formed from protein molecules, that allow specitic substances to be imported while others are exported."  Bruce Albert, Essential Cell Biology, 1998, p. 347.
 
Information in the DNA of a bacterium would fill a 1000 page book. Lee M. Spetner, Not by Chance, 1998. p. 30.
 
"By information, I mean a message that conveys meaning, such as a book of instructions....Information is not matter, though it is imprinted on matter....Instructions in the fertilized egg control embryonic development from the beginning, and direct it to a specific outcome." Phillip Johnson, The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism, 2000, p. 123,134. Videos - The Weakness of Darwinism and How the Evolution Controversy Stands Today by Phillip Johnson.
 
"There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is there any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this." Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information, 1997, p. 79. Video - In the Beginning was Information or Chaos by Werner Gitt.
 
"In all modern organisms, DNA contains in encrypted form the instructions for the manufacture of proteins. More specifically, encoded within DNA is the exact order in which amino acids, selected at each step from 20 distinct varieties should be strung together to form all the orginism's proteins." Christian de Duve [Nobel Prize winning scientist], "The Beginning of Life on Earth." American Scientist, Vol. 83, Sept-Oct. 1995, p. 430 
 
"More important, our knowledge of past civilizations provided by archeologists would be in jeopardy. The supposed "artifacfs" might be, after all, the result of unknown natural causes. Cave paintings, for example...may not be the result of early humans...Indeed, excavated ancient libraries could not be trusted to contain the works of intelligent men and women." Charles B. Thaxton, "In Pursuit of Intelligent Causes," Origins & Design, Summer 2001, p. 28-29.  
 
Information in DNA and in the "primative" cells takes up the least space possible. Andrzej Stasiak and John H. Maddocks, "Best Packing in Proteins and DNA," Nature,  Vol. 406, July 20, 2000, p. 251-252. See also  Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information, 1997, p. 195. Video - In the Beginning was Information or Chaos by Werner Gitt.
 
 Scientists have been able to put the entire Bible on one 32 X 33 mm film while DNA with the same space will hold 7.7 million  Bibles.  Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information, 1997, p. 192-194.
 
Definition of science by the state guidlines in Kansas -  "The human activity of seeking natural explanations for what we observe in the world around us." Peter Keeting, God and Man in OZ, Oct. 2000, p. 87. 
 
"...origin of life research consists in looking for a naturalistic alternative to the idea of the creation of life by a designer."  Iris Fry, The Emergence of Life on Earth, 2000, p. 184
 
"The time with which we have to deal is of the order of two billion years....Given so much time the  'impossible' becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs micacles." George Wald, "The Origins of Life," in The Physics and Chemistry of Life, 1955, p. 12.
 
  Fossils bacteria dated 3.55 billion years   "...look idential to bacteria still on Earth today." Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth, Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, 2000, p. 57. 
 

"Advanced forms of life existed on earthat least 3.55 billion years ago...It is now generally agreed that life arose spontaneously by natural processes...it must have arisen fairly quickly, more in a matter of millennia or centuries, perhaps even less, than in millions of years."  Christian de Duve [Nobel Prize winning scientist], "The Beginning of Life on Earth." American Scientist, Vol. 83, Sept-Oct. 1995, p. 428.  

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Chemistry by Chance: A Formula for Non-Life
by Charles McCombs, Ph.D
 
Scientists observe life today in order to determine what processes were at work when life originated on this planet. It would like looking at a 100-year-old photograph to determine which camera was used. The best result this type of analysis can provide is conjecture, and conjecture is the best that chemical evolution can produce. Evolutionists tell the tale that life was formed from chemicals, in some primordial soup from which life arose by accident.
 
Can random chemical "accidents" produce the building blocks of life? The following obstacles in chemistry ensure that life by chance is untenable. 
http://www.redskynews.com/books/ChemistryByChance.pdf

 

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 Spontaneous Generation - www.warneveryone.com/spontaneous_generation.htm  
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