A recent Salon article claimed that a new theory of lifes origin shows God is on the ropes” and “has creationists and the Christian right terrified.” What was the theory? That life was created by energy from the sun. Amazing that this old discredited theory is being revived. Casey Luskin debunks it--again: Sunlight maintains life on earth only because many organisms contain molecular machines which act as miniature solar cells, collecting sunlight and converting it into chemical energy. These organisms contain information encoded in their DNA—software which is translated by additional cellular machinery to build functional proteins, some of which are then choreographed to assemble into light-harvesting molecular machines.... The fundamental problem with England’s theories is that sunlight and other forms of energy do not generate new genetic information, nor do they produce new types of biological machines. It’s one thing to observe that energy keeps a machine running; it’s quite another to claim energy produced the machine in the first place. You could shine light on random Scrabble tiles or disassembled computer components for billions of years, and you’ll never produce a Shakespearean Sonnet or a functional computer. theblaze/contributions/another-challenge-to-creationism-from-materialists-who-cant-explain-origin-of-life-with-science/
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:23:08 +0000
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