Origin of Life
God or Natural Processes
When considering how life began, there are only two options. Either life was created by an intelligent source (God) or it began by natural processes.
No Mechanism to Spark Life
No mechanism by which non-living matter can randomly spark itself into life has ever been demonstrated. Information must come from a source of information.
Time and Chance?
To creationists, the incredible workings of the genetic code are not a mystery to be explained but instead a marvel to be understood as one of God’s most incredible designs. How such a coding system (even in a simpler form) could have arisen through random interaction is yet another leap of faith by evolutionists.
Help From Stardust
By assuming organic compounds ejected by stars could have fortified the primordial solar system, asteroids and meteorites, and of course earth with the building blocks of life, evolutionary scientists see such findings as a source to seed the process of molecules-to-man evolution.
Origin of Life Topics
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Primordial Soup
In a quiet pond somewhere on early earth, the many complex chemicals necessary for life came together to produce the first living cell—or did they?
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Synthetic Life
Is it possible for scientists to defy the law of biogenesis and create life in a laboratory or test tube?
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What Is Life?
What mysterious quality makes a creature alive at one moment but is absent the instant the creature dies? The Bible answers the question, “What is life?”
News About Origin of Life
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Jan. 23, 2023 from Ken Ham Blog
A recent article claims that by mimicking “cosmic evolution” in the lab, researchers have created some of the building blocks of life. But what’s really going on here?
Articles About Origin of Life
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Sept. 30, 2023 from Answers in Depth
The evolutionary explanation of complex life forms doesn’t add up.
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Nov. 7, 2021 from Answers Magazine
If all the ingredients necessary for life can occur naturally, does that mean over time they can evolve into a living creature?
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Sept. 22, 2021 from Answers in Depth
It is evident from both Scripture and observational science that abiogenesis is a myth, Genesis is real history, and God is the true life.
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Aug. 21, 2019 from Answers in Depth
The origin of life is a complicated biological problem for those who deny God’s existence. It is such an issue that many naturalists refuse even to discuss it.
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Jan. 1, 2018 from Answers Magazine
Why do so many intelligent people find the idea of molecules-to-man evolution compelling, while others consider it outrageously improbable?
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June 24, 2017 from Essays on Origins: Creation vs. Evolution
Evolutionists speculate that life gradually evolved from mere hydrogen in a series of stages.
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Jan. 30, 2017 from Answers in Depth
Biophysicists, observing the fascinating properties of liquid droplets, propose that liquid droplet physics could explain how life began.
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Dec. 9, 2016 from Answers in Depth
The microbe LUCA is supposed to have been the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all living things.
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Nov. 1, 2016 from Answers in Depth
The recent report of a 1.5-billion-year-old fossil1 has brought attention once again to the alleged evolution of multicellular systems.
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Las Vegas, the Lottery, and the Origin of LifeJuly 14, 2016
All questions on the origin of life hinge on our understanding of genetics because the first cell couldn’t just form and then die.
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In-Depth ArticleChiral Molecule in Interstellar Cloud Said to Shed Light on Life’s OriginsJune 30, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Evolutionists hope the first chiral molecule discovered in interstellar space will shed light on the mystery of how life evolved its biochemical handedness.
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In-Depth ArticleDo Deep-Sea “Purple Socks” Hold Early Evolutionary Secrets?Feb. 25, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Analysis of newly discovered deep-sea species led evolutionists to say that Xenoturbella, resembling a discarded purple sock, can help us understand evolution.
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In-Depth ArticlePinpointing the “Accident” That Let Multicellular Life EvolveFeb. 11, 2016 from Answers in Depth
If a computer simulation can trace a path for the evolution of multicellular organisms from single-celled ones, does that mean they actually evolved that way?
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Book Chapter1.3 The Origin of Life: DNA and ProteinFeb. 6, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life
It’s what we do know and can explain about DNA and protein and the laws of chemistry which suggests that life itself is the result of special creation.
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Book Chapter1.1 Where to Begin?Jan. 23, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life
Reluctant and surprised, I finally concluded that what we read in God’s Word is the surest guide to understanding what we see in God’s world.
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Semi-Technical In-Depth Article“600 Million-Year-Old” Sponge Said To Show When Multicellular Animals EvolvedApril 9, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Does the “world’s oldest sponge” confirm evolutionary beginnings of multicellular animal life at least 600 million years ago?
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Magazine Department ArticleArtificial Life in Biology?Oct. 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Some are claiming that researchers have taken a step toward showing how life could arise from non-life.
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July 10, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Swedish meteorite said to have triggered mass destruction and opened the way for life’s post-Cambrian explosion.
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In-Depth ArticleSea Anemone’s Genome Said to Show Evolutionary Root of Plants and AnimalsMarch 27, 2014 from Answers in Depth
“Flower of the sea” is said to contain an evolutionary link between plants and animals.
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In-Depth ArticleCan Spinning Crystals Show How Life Began?March 4, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Self-assembling virtual crystals are said to show the path to life from lifelessness.
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In-Depth ArticleA Tale of Shale and Oxygen in the Explosion of LifeFeb. 22, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Trace elements tell a tale of critically low oxygen that nearly turned out the lights on the evolution of complex life.
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The World’s Oldest Water?June 13, 2013 from News to Know
Researchers believe water trapped in tiny fractures within sulphide deposits has had no contact with water exposed for 1.5 to 2.64 billion years.
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Researchers Calculate Life Began Before Earth Could Have ExistedApril 27, 2013 from News to Know
Researchers calculate that life had to have begun so long ago earth did not yet exist.
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Book Chapter5.6 The Origin of Biological Information and of LifeNov. 15, 2012 from Did God Use Evolution?
From these discussions it should again become clear that all efforts to explain an origin of information depending on matter alone fail empirically.
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Debate with CERN Seeks Common GroundOct. 20, 2012 from News to Know
CERN summit seeks a “common ground” conclusion about the origin of everything.
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Strelley Pool Stromatolites Strike Another Blow for Early LifeSept. 22, 2012 from News to Know
Strelley Pool stromatolites strike another blow for early life.
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Secret of Life? . . . Still Not FoundMarch 3, 2012 from News to Know
Stable molecules still don’t hold the secret spark of life.
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Mother of All Living?Feb. 18, 2012 from News to Know
Ancient sponges take center stage as “our great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother.”
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The “Right Hand” of EvolutionJan. 28, 2012 from News to Know
“Potentially prebiotic conditions” permit production of right-handed carbs.
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Evolutionary Bottleneck: All Multicellular Organisms Begin as One CellDec. 24, 2011 from News to Know
The good of the one outweighs the good of the few and the many—the single-cell bottleneck that unleashes multicellular evolutionary potential(?)
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Stardust Latest Suspect for Origin of LifeNov. 5, 2011 from News to Know
Spectral signposts suggest interstellar seeds of life.
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Old Views, New NewsMarch 26, 2011 from News to Know
Believe it or not, the famous Miller–Urey experiment of the 1950s is still making headlines in the creation–evolution controversy.
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Slime Molds and LifeMarch 19, 2011 from News to Know
The cellular slime mold might seem to be a lowly form of life—maybe just the sort that could conceivably have evolved from inanimate matter.
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Latest Evolutionist Theory on LifeSept. 11, 2010
Whether it’s mica sheets or meteorites (or both), evolutionists have come up with theory after theory—most untestable, all unproven—about how life on earth got started. Here’s the latest.
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Life between Sheets of MicaAug. 14, 2010 from News to Know
Evolutionists continue to speculate about where life began. The latest answer? Between sheets of the geological substance mica.
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Problems for "Accidental" Origin of LifeApril 24, 2010
The “chirality problem” isn’t exactly one of the most prominent topics of debate when it comes to origins. But that doesn’t mean evolutionists have forgotten the problem it poses for an “accidental” origin of life.
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Evolutionary Researchers Reinforcing Creationist Perspective?April 17, 2010 from News to Know
The evolution of the genetic code remains one of the most speculative, mysterious vignettes in the grand tale of evolution. On that subject, have evolutionary researchers made headway, or do they just reinforce the creationist’s perspective?
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Book ChapterCan Natural Processes Explain the Origin of Life?Feb. 11, 2010 from The New Answers Book 2
When considering how life began, there are only two options. Either life was created by an intelligent source (God) or it began by natural processes.
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Prebiotic NonsenseApril 4, 2009 from News to Know
Astrobiologists may be a step closer to identifying prebiotic compounds in space. Now all they have to do is find the compounds!
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Life Designed Itself?Feb. 28, 2009 from News to Know
Have Canadian scientists uncovered the key that makes an evolutionary origin of life plausible?
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LUCA Considered Earth’s Original Ancestor Says University of MontrealDec. 20, 2008
LUCA: I am your father?
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