Get Answers: Origin of Life

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• The Origin of Life (from Evolution Exposed)
• Origins of Life: A Simple Approach?
• The origin of life: DNA and protein (from Creation: Facts of Life)
• The origin of life
• The elusive origin of life
• Fish in the bathtub
• Life from life…or not?
• The Origin of Life: A Critique of Current Scientific Models (Technical, PDF file)

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? (Semi-technical)
• Spontaneous generation and perpetual motion machines (H.P. Yockey)
• Probabilities of randomly assembling a primitive cell on Earth (Technical, Progress in Complexity, Information and Design 1(4), Oct.–Dec. 2002. Author grants billions of years to the evolutionists without question, but shows that even that doesn’t help their cause)
• See Get Answers: Probability

Is evolutionary origin-of-life research truly objective?

• Evolution Is Religion (from Evolution: The Lie)
• Chemical evolution: based on (blind) faith not fact
• Primeval soup — failed paradigm
• Irrational Naturalism (ICR Back to Genesis article)

What about the Miller-Urey experiment?

• Can natural processes explain the origin of life? (from War of the Worldviews)
• Feedback: Are we “children of God’s divine evolution”?
• How Life Began—A Textbook Recipe
• The origin of life: DNA and protein (from Creation: Facts of Life)
• Why the Miller–Urey research argues against abiogenesis
• What biology textbooks never told you about evolution
• Quantum leap of faith

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

• Did cells acquire organelles such as mitochondria by gobbling up other cells? (Semi-technical)
• How Simple Can Life Be?
• Self-replicating Enzymes (Technical)
  (A Critique of some recent evolutionary origin of life models)
• Origin of Life: The Chirality Problem (Technical)
• Origin of life and the chirality problem:
  Is magnetochiral dichroism the solution? (Technical)
• Origin of Life: The Polymerization Problem (Technical)
• Hydrothermal origin of life? (Technical)
• The Primitive Atmosphere (Semi-Technical)
• Evolutionist criticisms of the RNA World conjecture (Technical, by A.G. Cairns-Smith)
• The RNA World: A Critique (Technical, Origins & Design 17(1):9–16, 1996)
• Origin of life: Three-part series by Dr Duane Gish, Ph.D. biochemist, ICR Impact 1976:
  1. Critique of early stage chemical evolution theories
  2. Fox Thermal Model of the Origin of Life
  3. On the Origin of Biological Order

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

• Can natural processes explain the origin of life? (from War of the Worldviews)
• Have Scientists Created a New Life-form in the Lab?
• Semi-homemade life
• Biologists mimic evolution in the lab?
• The Mystery of Life’s Origin: Reassessing Current Theories, online chapters (Technical, off-site)
  • Chapter 7 Thermodynamics of Living Systems
  • Chapter 8 Thermodynamics and the Origin of life
  • Chapter 9 Specifying How Work is to be Done

What about Paul Davies’ recent book The Fifth Miracle?

• Origin of Life — the Real Agenda
• Quantum leap of faith (Paul Davies and the origin of life)

Did life originate in ‘outer space’?

• Did life come from outer space?
• Proof of life evolving in the universe?
• Life discovered in space
• See Get Answers: Alien/UFOs