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By Design

by Dr Jonathan Sarfati

Chemicals to Living Cell: Fantasy or Science? DVD

presented by Dr Jonathan D Sarfati

Refuting Evolution 2 (original edition)

by Jonathan Sarfati

Codes and Creation DVD

presented by Calvin Smith

Origin of Life (Curriculum Supplement)

by ICR

Our main Q&A (FAQ) Page

Origin of Life Questions and Answers

Key articles

• 15 loopholes in the evolutionary theory of the origin of life: summary
• The origin of life: A critique of current scientific models
• Why the Miller–Urey research argues against abiogenesis
• Evolutionist criticisms of the RNA World conjecture
• Mutations Questions and Answers

What are some basic problems with the naturalistic origin of life?

• Tinned sardines: clue to the origin of life?
• Fish in the bathtub
• Life from life … or not?
• Quote: Primeval soup—failed paradigm
• Life’s irreducible structure—Part 1: autopoiesis

How do the laws of statistics and probability describe the evolutionary claim that life came about by chance?

• Could monkeys type the 23^rd Psalm?
• Monkey madness
• Huff and Bluff: Can ‘quantum magic’ save chemical evolution?
• How simple can life be?
• Answering another uninformed atheist: Galileo, Miller–Urey, probability

What are some scientific problems with the idea that life arose due to ‘chemical evolution’?

• Origin of Life: The chirality problem
• Origin of life and the chirality problem: Is magnetochiral dichroism the solution?
• Origin of life: The polymerization problem
• Origin of life: Instability of building blocks
• Self-replicating enzymes
• Hydrothermal origin of life?
• World record enzymes
• Does ribozyme research prove Darwinian evolution?
• Is RNA self-replication evidence for evolution?
• Natural selection cannot explain the origin of life

Have scientists been able to create living cells from non-living matter in a lab, as the media claim?

• Did Craig Venter really create life in a test tube?
• Creating life from scratch?
• Creating life in a test tube?

Could DNA and the genetic code evolve by chance?

• DNA: marvelous messages or mostly mess?
• Dazzling design in miniature
• Decoding and editing design: double sieve enzymes
• Man’s achievements vs amazing ‘living computer’ technology
• New DNA repair enzyme discovered

What is ‘irreducible complexity’ and how does it pose a problem for evolution? What are some examples of irreducible complexity?

• Chapter 10: Irreducible complexity (from Refuting Evolution 2)
• Irreducible complexity: some candid admissions by evolutionists (PDF)
• Design in living organisms: motors
• Did cells acquire organelles such as mitochondria by gobbling up other cells?
• World record enzymes

Did life originate in outer space?

• Life on Mars? Separating fact from fiction
• Did life come from outer space?
• Moon microbes? Remember the ‘Life from Mars’
• Sugars from space? Do they prove evolution?
• Nucleic acid bases in Murchison meteorite?
• Panspermia theory burned to a crisp: bacteria couldn’t survive on meteorite
• Extrasolar planets with organic materials
• Designed by aliens? Discoverers of DNA’s structure attack Christianity

Related Q&A pages

• Probability
• Design Features
• Genetics
• Information Theory
• Thermodynamics and Order

It has been said that “Information is power”. When it comes to creation information we’d have to agree. Keep the ‘powerful’ evidence for God being Creator coming.