Destroying the Theory of Evolution before it could even happen Part 2 (not actual title)
This and other articles can be found in the book, In the Beginning…Soup? Click Here to order!
By Thomas F. Heinze Used with permission
IBM writes:
"To make proteins, agents known as ribosomes connect amino acids into long strings. These strings loop and fold around each other in a variety of ways. However, only one of these many ways will allow the protein to function properly."9
"… proteins fold into a highly complex, three-dimensional shape that determines their function. Any change in shape dramatically alters the function of a protein, and even the slightest change in the folding process can turn a desirable protein into a disease."10
Because Blue Gene will unleash tremendous computing power, by running it day and night it should only take, "about one year to simulate the complete folding of a typical protein."11 Living cells, however, fold such proteins in less than a second. This evidence shows that the One who invented the way proteins fold in cells is much more intelligent than the new super computer.
In the lab, intelligent scientists have learned how to link amino acids together to form some of the smaller proteins. However, unless the amino acids are all left-handed and the proteins fold properly, they are no better than miniature spaghetti as far as biological activity is concerned.
Addressing proteins
Even though there are huge numbers of wrong places for proteins to go, there is only one correct place in which each newly made protein can fit and function. Proteins are worthless except in the one spot they fold to fit. How do proteins find their way?
"… newly minted proteins contain an amino acid string that determines their eventual home."12
The amino acid string which forms the address is usually added as a tail on the end of the longer string of amino acids which make up the protein. This tail has been compared to the address on an envelope.
Before you claim this evidence does not matter, put a bunch of your letters in the mail box without addressing them. If the right addresses form spontaneously, let me know! Science News says,
"Misplacing a protein is more serious than losing a letter, however. There are diseases where proteins are mistargeted in cells."13
In 1999, "The Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Dr. Guenter Blobel of The Rockefeller University in New York
Turning proteins on and off
The cell also needs the right amount of each protein. If there was even one protein that the cell did not stop making after it had made enough, the cell would soon be jammed so full of that protein that it would pop. The production of every individual protein is, and must be, turned on and off at just the right moments.15
If a first cell did not contain the information to correctly turn on and off the production of each protein, that cell would have died. This is evidence that the divine programmer who coded in the necessary information knew when to turn protein production on and off.
So what?
The proteins that make up cells do not form anywhere in nature except in already living cells. One reason cells can make them is because the instructions for constructing them and then turning their production on and off are already present in the cell's library of information. Once made, proteins could not function unless they were properly folded and addressed. Neither making proteins, folding, addressing, nor regulating their production could invent itself, yet no cell could live unless all were in place and coordinated. These are scientific facts; evidence for a very intelligent Creator who plans ahead.
Textbook authors who replace scientific evidence with atheistic theory contribute to the "dumbing down" of students. Students are not taught the important scientific facts we have just seen because they contradict atheistic theory. Instead, class time is taken up learning propaganda that is contrary to real science.
Each cell is contained inside a two layer membrane made of lipids (fats).1 Lipids are only formed by living cells. Here is a quote that we read earlier, when we were considering nucleotides, the building blocks of RNA and DNA. It is important here as well:
"Though a few organic substances-for instance, certain simple amino acids-can form relatively easily under prebiotic conditions, other biochemical building blocks, such as nucleotides and lipids, require for their synthesis a 'real factory.' … The synthesis of these substances involves a series of reactions, each reaction following the previous one in utmost accuracy."2
Cells can't live without lipids, and lipids are only produced by already living cells. This is important evidence for our wonderful Creator.
What does the cell's membrane do?
Alberts writes:
"A living cell is a self-reproducing system of molecules held inside a container. The container is the plasma membrane - a fatty film so thin and transparent that it cannot be seen directly in the light microscope. It is simple in construction, being based on a sheet of lipid molecules…. Although it serves as a barrier to prevent the contents of the cell from escaping and mixing with the surrounding medium…the plasma membrane does much more than that. Nutrients have to pass inward across it if the cell is to survive and grow, and waste products have to pass outward. Thus the membrane is penetrated by highly selective channels and pumps, formed from protein molecules, that allow specific substances to be imported while others are exported."3
A lipid membrane without its protein pumps and channels would let water enter the cell, but would keep nutrients out, starving the cell,4 so proteins had to work together with the lipids from the first. This is evidence of carefully planned irreducible complexity.
If cells had really formed by themselves, we would expect their important parts to be made of substances that are easily formed under natural conditions. Amazing! Not one of the four: lipids, proteins, RNA, or DNA, can be formed in nature except by a living cell, yet for a cell to live, all four must be up and running, each one doing its job.
If God had wanted to shout to us that He is here, and show us proof that He created, can you think of a better way for Him to do it? Run, don't walk, to the nearest Bible and get to know your awesome Creator personally through His Son, Jesus Christ! Start with the book of John.
The DNA of a bacterium contains as much information as a 1000 page book!1 What is information? The principle dictionary definition is, "knowledge communicated or received…."2
Speaking of the information in DNA, Philip Johnson explains,
"By information, I mean a message that conveys meaning, such as a book of instructions.… Information is not matter, though it is imprinted on matter.… Instructions in the fertilized egg control embryonic development from the beginning, and direct it to a specific outcome."3
Professor Werner Gitt, who works in the field of information science writes:
"There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is there any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this."4
This statement, if true, destroys the whole basis of the idea that no intelligent mind was involved in the formation of the first life. Is his statement true? All known languages, alphabets and codes, as well as the information spoken or written in them, originated in minds. The faith of the atheist that the first life was an exception is contrary to all known evidence.
Some have argued that monkeys beating at random on a typewriter or computer keyboard might eventually produce a few recognizable words, which would be information. How many words would the monkeys type if no one had designed any alphabet or keyboard or computer, and they had to beat on the dirt?
It's hard to be an atheist. One must have faith that, contrary to all evidence, not just a few words but huge amounts of usable information, and the language and code with which the information was written, popped up by themselves.
De Duve, a Nobel Prize winning scientist writes:
"In all modern organisms, DNA contains in encrypted form the instructions for the manufacture of proteins. More specifically, encoded within DNA is the exact order in which amino acids, selected at each step from 20 distinct varieties should be strung together to form all of the organism's proteins."5
Information never develops apart from intelligence, yet cells contain huge amounts of information. I believe this is the most important single evidence that life came from the mind of an intelligent Creator rather than from dumb chemicals.
Information does not come from the material that carries it
A message is not determined by the material it is written on. The same sheet of paper can be used to draw a comic strip or write out a chemical formula. The same stretch of DNA that carries the commands for brown hair can just as easily hold commands that will make blond hair-or teeth for that matter! Information comes from minds. The message is independent of the material it is written on.
The information in DNA is real information. It has been copied onto computers in the Human Genome Project, and printed out on paper. It is the same information no matter what it is written on. Many atheists understand, but purposely side-step the really difficult question, "Where does the information come from?" They substitute made up stories about where the material that carries the information might have come from. It is like thinking of a way paper could form in nature and claiming to have explained an encyclopedia.
Destroying the Theory of Evolution before it could even happen Part 2 (not actual title)
This and other articles can be found in the book, In the Beginning…Soup? Click Here to order!
By Thomas F. Heinze Used with permission
IBM writes:
"To make proteins, agents known as ribosomes connect amino acids into long strings. These strings loop and fold around each other in a variety of ways. However, only one of these many ways will allow the protein to function properly."9
"… proteins fold into a highly complex, three-dimensional shape that determines their function. Any change in shape dramatically alters the function of a protein, and even the slightest change in the folding process can turn a desirable protein into a disease."10
Because Blue Gene will unleash tremendous computing power, by running it day and night it should only take, "about one year to simulate the complete folding of a typical protein."11 Living cells, however, fold such proteins in less than a second. This evidence shows that the One who invented the way proteins fold in cells is much more intelligent than the new super computer.
In the lab, intelligent scientists have learned how to link amino acids together to form some of the smaller proteins. However, unless the amino acids are all left-handed and the proteins fold properly, they are no better than miniature spaghetti as far as biological activity is concerned.
Addressing proteins
Even though there are huge numbers of wrong places for proteins to go, there is only one correct place in which each newly made protein can fit and function. Proteins are worthless except in the one spot they fold to fit. How do proteins find their way?
"… newly minted proteins contain an amino acid string that determines their eventual home."12
The amino acid string which forms the address is usually added as a tail on the end of the longer string of amino acids which make up the protein. This tail has been compared to the address on an envelope.
Before you claim this evidence does not matter, put a bunch of your letters in the mail box without addressing them. If the right addresses form spontaneously, let me know! Science News says,
"Misplacing a protein is more serious than losing a letter, however. There are diseases where proteins are mistargeted in cells."13
In 1999, "The Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Dr. Guenter Blobel of The Rockefeller University in
Turning proteins on and off
The cell also needs the right amount of each protein. If there was even one protein that the cell did not stop making after it had made enough, the cell would soon be jammed so full of that protein that it would pop. The production of every individual protein is, and must be, turned on and off at just the right moments.15
If a first cell did not contain the information to correctly turn on and off the production of each protein, that cell would have died. This is evidence that the divine programmer who coded in the necessary information knew when to turn protein production on and off.
So what?
The proteins that make up cells do not form anywhere in nature except in already living cells. One reason cells can make them is because the instructions for constructing them and then turning their production on and off are already present in the cell's library of information. Once made, proteins could not function unless they were properly folded and addressed. Neither making proteins, folding, addressing, nor regulating their production could invent itself, yet no cell could live unless all were in place and coordinated. These are scientific facts; evidence for a very intelligent Creator who plans ahead.
Textbook authors who replace scientific evidence with atheistic theory contribute to the "dumbing down" of students. Students are not taught the important scientific facts we have just seen because they contradict atheistic theory. Instead, class time is taken up learning propaganda that is contrary to real science.
Each cell is contained inside a two layer membrane made of lipids (fats).1 Lipids are only formed by living cells. Here is a quote that we read earlier, when we were considering nucleotides, the building blocks of RNA and DNA. It is important here as well:
"Though a few organic substances-for instance, certain simple amino acids-can form relatively easily under prebiotic conditions, other biochemical building blocks, such as nucleotides and lipids, require for their synthesis a 'real factory.' … The synthesis of these substances involves a series of reactions, each reaction following the previous one in utmost accuracy."2
Cells can't live without lipids, and lipids are only produced by already living cells. This is important evidence for our wonderful Creator.
What does the cell's membrane do?
Alberts writes:
"A living cell is a self-reproducing system of molecules held inside a container. The container is the plasma membrane - a fatty film so thin and transparent that it cannot be seen directly in the light microscope. It is simple in construction, being based on a sheet of lipid molecules…. Although it serves as a barrier to prevent the contents of the cell from escaping and mixing with the surrounding medium…the plasma membrane does much more than that. Nutrients have to pass inward across it if the cell is to survive and grow, and waste products have to pass outward. Thus the membrane is penetrated by highly selective channels and pumps, formed from protein molecules, that allow specific substances to be imported while others are exported."3
A lipid membrane without its protein pumps and channels would let water enter the cell, but would keep nutrients out, starving the cell,4 so proteins had to work together with the lipids from the first. This is evidence of carefully planned irreducible complexity.
If cells had really formed by themselves, we would expect their important parts to be made of substances that are easily formed under natural conditions. Amazing! Not one of the four: lipids, proteins, RNA, or DNA, can be formed in nature except by a living cell, yet for a cell to live, all four must be up and running, each one doing its job.
If God had wanted to shout to us that He is here, and show us proof that He created, can you think of a better way for Him to do it? Run, don't walk, to the nearest Bible and get to know your awesome Creator personally through His Son, Jesus Christ! Start with the book of John.
The DNA of a bacterium contains as much information as a 1000 page book!1 What is information? The principle dictionary definition is, "knowledge communicated or received…."2
Speaking of the information in DNA, Philip Johnson explains,
"By information, I mean a message that conveys meaning, such as a book of instructions.… Information is not matter, though it is imprinted on matter.… Instructions in the fertilized egg control embryonic development from the beginning, and direct it to a specific outcome."3
Professor Werner Gitt, who works in the field of information science writes:
"There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is there any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this."4
This statement, if true, destroys the whole basis of the idea that no intelligent mind was involved in the formation of the first life. Is his statement true? All known languages, alphabets and codes, as well as the information spoken or written in them, originated in minds. The faith of the atheist that the first life was an exception is contrary to all known evidence.
Some have argued that monkeys beating at random on a typewriter or computer keyboard might eventually produce a few recognizable words, which would be information. How many words would the monkeys type if no one had designed any alphabet or keyboard or computer, and they had to beat on the dirt?
It's hard to be an atheist. One must have faith that, contrary to all evidence, not just a few words but huge amounts of usable information, and the language and code with which the information was written, popped up by themselves.
De Duve, a Nobel Prize winning scientist writes:
"In all modern organisms, DNA contains in encrypted form the instructions for the manufacture of proteins. More specifically, encoded within DNA is the exact order in which amino acids, selected at each step from 20 distinct varieties should be strung together to form all of the organism's proteins."5
Information never develops apart from intelligence, yet cells contain huge amounts of information. I believe this is the most important single evidence that life came from the mind of an intelligent Creator rather than from dumb chemicals.
Information does not come from the material that carries it
A message is not determined by the material it is written on. The same sheet of paper can be used to draw a comic strip or write out a chemical formula. The same stretch of DNA that carries the commands for brown hair can just as easily hold commands that will make blond hair-or teeth for that matter! Information comes from minds. The message is independent of the material it is written on.
The information in DNA is real information. It has been copied onto computers in the Human Genome Project, and printed out on paper. It is the same information no matter what it is written on. Many atheists understand, but purposely side-step the really difficult question, "Where does the information come from?" They substitute made up stories about where the material that carries the information might have come from. It is like thinking of a way paper could form in nature and claiming to have explained an encyclopedia.