Some Problems with this Evolution

1. The Early Environment:

“The oldest rocks on earth according to evolutionists were made in an oxygen atmosphere, so the early earth probably did have oxygen. Oxygen would have made the amino acids disappear.”

(This information comes from the Answers in Genesis Answers Books.)

 

2. Small organic molecules: amino acids

The Miller experiment claimed that from a chemical soup representing the early environment, one could get some amino acids.

Problems with the Miller experiment:

A. “Miller separated the amino acids from the original soup in order to preserve them. This probably did not occur on the early earth.”

B. “Miller produced both left and right-handed amino acids, but living organisms only use left-handed amino acids. The presence of right-handed amino acids would not have allowed the left-handed ones to form proteins.”

(Information on the problems with the Miller experiment comes from Answers in Genesis Answers Books.)

 

3. Water or rock environment (2 theories)

“Amino acids could not have survived a long time in a water or rock environment. UV rays or water would have made the amino acids disappear. Only in the body of living things could such amino acids have survived.”

(This information comes from the Answers in Genesis Answers Books.)

 

4. Large organic molecules:

A. Getting amino acids to form bonds to form a protein is a problem:

The equilibrium concentration of polymers is so low, their tendency is to break down in water, not to be built up. High temperatures accelerate the breakdown.

Stanley Miller points out that polymers are “too unstable to exist in a hot prebiotic environment.”

 “All the thought of ways or experiments to produce polymers have major problems.”

(This information comes from Sarfati, “Origin of Life: The Polymerization Problem”)

 

B. Problems getting nucleic acids:

Dr. Cairns-Smith lists 19 substantial difficulties with getting prevital nucleic acids, calling it implausible.

“However it is to be put together, a nucleotide is too complex and metastable a molecule for there to be an reason to expect an easy synthesis.”

(This information comes from “Evolutionist criticism of the RNA World Conjecture” Quotes from Dr. Cairns-Smith)

“The chemical reactions require formaldehyde to react with hydrogen cyanide. However, formaldehyde and cyanide are deadly poisons. They would destroy critically important proteins that might have formed.”

(This information comes from Batten, “Origin of Life”)

 

C. Problems getting sugars:

In an early chemical soup, carbonyl sugars would “react destructively” with amino acids. A cell has safety features that keep them apart.

The conditions necessary for sugars to form would “destroy sugars such as ribose and glucose that are essential to life.”

(This information comes from Batten, “Origin of Life”)

 

D. Problems with getting lipids:

“The fatty acids that are the primary component of all cell membranes have been very difficult to produce, even assuming the absence of oxygen.”

“Even if lipids were produced, ions such as magnesium and calcium, which are themselves necessary for life and have two charges per atom, would combine with the fatty acids, and precipitate them, making them unavailable.”

“Highly complex membranes allowing movement of certain things in and out of the cell seems necessary to life. Simple fat will not do.”

(This information comes from Batten, “Origin of Life”)

 

5. & 6. Problems with getting RNA or DNA:

1. “Cytosine (‘C’ of DNA) is impossibly difficult to form in any kind of prebiotic soup.

      B. “Phosphates would be precipitated by the abundant calcium ions in sea water or cling strongly onto the surfaces of clay particles. Either scenario would prevent phosphate from being used to make DNA.”

(This information comes from Batten, “Origin of Life”)