1. Session 13

2. The Origin of Life Chemical Evolution Biological Evolution

3. The Origin of Life (Two Possibilities) 1. Life started by naturalistic processes. 2. Life was created by God. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

4. Evolution Over millions of years, in some primordial chemical soup, molecules bonded together to make a living cell. = = +

5. “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him..” Colossians 1:16 God created all life

6. Atoms H H O Molecules Amino Acids Proteins

7. Miller Experiment Attempts to Create Life

8. Critical Thinking 1. Why did Miller use the gases he did (methane, ammonia and no oxygen)? 2. What type of amino acids did Miller get? 3. What were the real results?

9. Oxygen and the Origin of Life “If free oxygen (O 2 ) was present in the atmosphere, then the chemical reactions to form the basic building blocks of even the simplest cell (amino acids, proteins, lipids, etc.) could not occur.” Institute for Creation Research www.mandley.com/advdemo/mod06/adv6310.htm

10. No Oxygen and Life Ozone Crispy Critters

11. Water and Life

12. Three Major Problems - Pop Quiz Oxygen Absence of oxygen Water Problem Result _______________________________________________

13. Amino Acids Hundreds of types of amino acids Only 20 are used in life

14. Challenge The origin of life has nothing to do with evolution. Scientists haven’t figured out how life originated, however, in time they will.

15. “Concerning the origin of life itself, the watershed between chemistry and biology, the transition between lifeless chemical activity and organized biological metabolism, there is no direct evidence at all. The crucial transition from disorder to order left behind no observable traces.” Freeman Dyson (physicist and mathematician), Origins of Life, 1999, p. 36. Origin of Life Conclusion

16. “As regards the origin of life, our uniform experience is that it takes an intelligent agent to generate information, codes, messages. As a result, it is reasonable to infer there was an intelligent cause of the original DNA code.” Charles Thaxton (Ph.D. Chemistry), “DNA, Design, and the Origin of Life,” Darwin Under the Microscope, 2002, p. 74.