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- On Programming and the Origin of Life
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- Living things seem to function very well, even under the
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- worst of conditions. Many animals are found that have special
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- functions that allow them to live in places no other animal can.
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- I have always been amazed at how living things work together in
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- such a perfect balance. If not for the influence of people,
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- natural life would continue on, seemingly forever.
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- It would indeed be amazing if all this could happen without
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- some kind of design and programming. You may be a programmer
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- yourself (or you may do any number of things like parenting,
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- cooking, remodeling, etc.). You know when you start a task what
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- you want to end up with. You start with basic building blocks
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- and follow a procedure. When you are finished you have a final
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- product that is just what you envisioned in the first place.
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- During this manufacturing process you used your intellectual
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- resources. When you are done you feel great because you know
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- that you have accomplished something. Now what if someone were
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- to come along and tell you that any brainless thing could have
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- put various computer commands (or ingredients) together randomly
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- and come up with the same program? Not only are you hurt by the
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- insult, but you know that the person is foolish for believing
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- this. Let me illustrate (only try this at home if you can spare
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- your keyboard):
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- Turn on your computer and load up your favorite computer
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- language editor. Now put your keyboard in a cage along with a
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- cat (or any other type of animal). Then leave the room. The cat
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- will walk, roll, and sleep on the keyboard. Hopefully the cat
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- won't mistake your keyboard for the litter box. After several
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- hours come back into the room and see what has appeared on the
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- screen. Common sense tells you that you would just see garbage
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- on the screen.
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- So what does this have to do with the origin of life?
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- Evolutionists usually claim that life occurred spontaneously from
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- a "primordial soup." When this theory was first presented,
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- "simple" cells were thought to be, well... simple. However,
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- modern research has shown that even the simplest cells are more
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- complex than we can even fathom.
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- The absolute minimum number of proteins that a surviving
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- cell could possible have is 600 (although no cells near this
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- simple have been found). The chances of this cell coming
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- together randomly is about one out of 10E(450*600) [i.e. ten to
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- the power of 270,000]!
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- Now let's suppose you are looking at the work your cat has
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- done on your computer. Ask yourself the question, "What are the
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- odds that the cat has written even one command that I could
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- compile without an error?" You would probably answer yourself
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- "Zero." However, your cat would probably have better chances of
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- writing the source code for WordPerfect by randomly stepping on
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- your keyboard than the simplest possible cell coming together by
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- a random process, even under optimal conditions!
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- Many evolutionary scientists agree that this is a
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- "difficulty," but they hold on to evolution as their theory of
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- choice because they do not want to believe the only other
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- alternative - creation.
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- Living cells on earth have all been designed and programmed.
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- Their vast complexity attests to it. No one would look at any
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- computer program (no matter how simple) and suggest that it did
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- not take intelligent life to form it. In the same way, no one
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- can reasonably look at a cell, leaf, eye, or body and say it
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- simply happened.
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- The evidence points to a single act of creation by a Creator
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- capable of doing it. After several years of research I have
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- personally determined that God, through His son, Jesus, is the
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- creator of the universe, the earth, and all the life on the
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- earth.
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- I am not pushing for a narrow point of view. What I
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- encourage people to do is look at the evidence for themselves.
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- Try reading the Bible. Many of you who have only heard others
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- talk about the Bible don't know what you are missing. Consider
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- what it says. (I suggest starting with the New Testament and then
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- going back to read the Old Testament).
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- Take some time to consider the living things. Go to a zoo,
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- a park, or out in the wilderness and consider even the "simplest"
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- forms of life.
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- If you are into science, do literature research (or even
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- reread a biology textbook). Look at the evidence presented. Try
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- to separate the hard facts from the theories. Once you have
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- several facts, try to reason them in your own understanding.
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- If you are genuinely interested in creation theory or simply
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- want to know more about it, most Christian bookstores have good
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- books on the subject.
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- Since I became aware of the facts of creation I have
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- developed a close personal relationship with Jesus. He has been
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- the primary reason I don't have a useless and hopeless life.
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- Life did not become easier, but He has helped me through every
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- situation. If you don't know Jesus, just keep in mind that He
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- wants to know you. If you seek Him, He promises that you will
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- find Him.
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- "Whether one looks to mutations or gene flow for
- the source of the variation needed to fuel evolution,
- there is an enormous probability problem at the core of
- Darwinist and neo-Darwinist theory, which has been
- cited by hundreds of scientists and professionals.
- Engineers, physicists, astronomers, and biologists who
- have looked without prejudice at the notion of such
- variations producing ever more complex organisms have
- come to the same conclusion: The evolutionists are
- assuming the impossible."
- - Frank Salisbury in AMERICAN BIOLOGY TEACHER
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- "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or
- the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak
- to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of
- the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know
- that the hand of the Lord has done this? In His hand
- is the life of every creature and the breath of all
- mankind."
- - Job 12:7-10 (NIV)