How did life begin on Earth

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How did life begin on Earth ?

• The Bible teaches that God created all life on
  earth. But evolution teaches that life started by
  a purely natural process. What does the evidence
  say ?

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What is Science

• Science tries to find explanations for things we
  can observe
• Scientific method
• Observe and gather information
• Propose a theory (a good guess)
• Devise experiments to test the theory
• See if result of experiments checks out with
  theory
• If not, change theory and try again
• If so, theory becomes a law

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Example
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Science and the Question of Origin

• Science has studied the question How did life
  begin on earth
• Science has learn a lot about what living
  organisms are made of and how living organisms
  work
• But science has not found out how life began on
  earth
• The present scientific theory (a guess !!!) on
  how life begin is called Theory of Evolution
• This theory has problems because it cannot
  explain many observations (in other words this
  scientific theory may be wrong)
• Before we can talk about Evolution, I need to
  explain what living things are made off...

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What are living things made off ?

• All living organisms (animals, plants) are made
  of cells

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What is a cell made off ?
Amino-acid molecule
Cell
Protein molecules
Chain of amino-acid molecules
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Amino-acids building blocks of life

• 20 different amino-acid molecules in cells
• Each protein molecule is made of different
  combinations of amino-acids
• Q How many different protein molecules ?

Example protein molecule
Another example
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How did life begin according to Evolution

• Early earths atmosphere contains Hydrogen,
  Methane, Ammonia, Nitrogen
• Lightning provided energy to fuse the gases into
  different Amino-acid molecules
• Amino-acid molecules collide with one another to
  for protein molecules
• Protein molecules collide with one another to
  form a living cell

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First stage of life according to evolution

• At first, life was very simple and consist of
  self replicating molecules
• Later, life learn to store genetic information in
  DNA molecules single cell organisms
• And later, single cell organisms developed into
  simple multi-cell orgasms (Example coral polyp)

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How organisms change according to evolution

• DNA molecules inside a cell store information
  on how to construct the cell
• Radiation, chemicals and copy mistakes can change
  the DNA molecules
• When the DNA is changed, the cell will be
  different
• Many random different cells will be created by
  DNA mutations

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Later development adaptation

• When more and more living organisms are on earth,
  they compete for their food
• The stronger (faster, smarter, etc) animals will
  have a better chance to survive and reproduce
• This process of adaptation is called natural
  selection

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Science always check the evidence

• A scientific theory is only a guess it can be
  wrong !
• The principle in science is to always check the
  theory against the evidence
• The evidence is never wrong
• If the evidence contradicts a result of the
  theory, the theory needs to be changed !!!
• So do we have strong evidence for the Theory of
  Evolution ?

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Making life according to Evolution

• Put Hydrogen, Methane, Ammonia, Nitrogen together
• Use lightning (electric sparks) to fuse the gases
  into different Amino-acid molecules
• Can this be done ???

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Making Amino-acids Millers experiment

• Miller put water, nitrogen, methane, ammonia,
  hydrogen and carbon dioxide in a flask
• The mixture was zapped for a week by high voltage
  sparks
• Miller was able to make a number of different
  types of amino-acid molecules
• Some scientists saw this as proof that life
  began on earth through evolution

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Evidence for a common ancestor embryos

• According to the Theory of Evolution, all life
  has one single common ancestor
• Haeckle drew some embryos at different stages of
  their development in 1874
• Haeckles drawing shows that embryos from
  different species look alike at the start of
  their development
• Many biology text books claim that this shows
  that all living things had the same beginning a
  common ancestor

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Evidence for adaptation Finches

• Finches beak has been adapted to eat certain
  food to survive

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Evidence for adaptation moths

• Lighter-colored moths resting on tree barks can
  be easily spotted by birds
• When trees in England got darker due to
  pollution, population of lighter-colored moths
  descreased

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Is Evolution a proven theory ???

• So do these evidences provide the proof for the
  Theory of Evolution ?
• Some scientists think so...
• A recent PBS TV series on Evolution claims that
• All known scientific evidence support evolution
• virtually every reputable scientist in the world
  support evolution
• School text books on evolution all proclaim that
  Evolution is a proven fact
• Many people who once believed that God created
  the world turned away from God after they learned
  about the Theory of Evolution.

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Evolution is NOT a proven theory

• Immediately after the PBS TV series, 100
  scientists (from well-known universities like
  MIT, Yale, Emory, etc) published a 2 page ad in
  the news paper The Weekly Standard
• Public TV programs, education policy statements,
  and science textbooks have asserted that Theory
  of Evolution fully explains the complexity of
  living things. The public has been assured, most
  recently by spokespersons for PBS's Evolution
  series, that "all known scientific evidence
  support evolution" and does "virtually every
  reputable scientist in the world.
  The following scientists DISPUTE the first claim
  and stand as LIVING TESTIMONY in contradiction to
  the second.. (followed by the names of these 100
  scientists)
• We look at the controversy of Evolution next

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Whats wrong with Millers experiment

• When you do science, you must get the starting
  condition right otherwise, the result of the
  experiment is useless
• Scientists have discovered that Earths early
  atmosphere did not contain hydrogen, methane and
  ammonia
• When Millers experiment is repeated, all it
  produced were very harmful chemicals !

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Haeckle a liar and a fraud !

• One has to smell fish if biology text books still
  use a drawing from 1874
• In 1997, Richardson took pictures of the real
  embryos
• The result according to Richardson
• it's turning out to be one of the most famous
  FAKES in Biology

Most biology text books still contain this lie
!!!
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More real embryos
Pictures of real embryos clearly show embryos
differ greatly at early stage
Embryos does NOT support the theory of one
common ancestor
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More problems Fossil Record

• When some animals died a catastrophic death
  (e.g., volcano eruption), their bodies are
  encapsulated in stone/dirt and become a fossil

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Fossil Record

• Fossils are deposited in rock in layers
• The deeper a layer, the older the fossils !

Recent fossils
Ancient fossils
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Fossil record according to Evolution

• According to the Theory of Evolution, there is
  one kind of living organisms in the beginning and
  animals change slowly over time (billions of
  years !)
• So, according to the Theory of Evolution, the
  number of different kinds of animals (species)
  grows slowly over a long period of time

Time
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What do we find in the Fossil Record ?

• We find the fossils buried in the rock layers
  this way
• Before a certain period (Cambrium layer), there
  is only fossils from a few species (simple
  animals)
• After this period, fossils from all kinds of
  animals appear within a few million years (very
  short for evolution)
• Scientists call this Cambrium explosion

Time
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What does the Fossil record tell us ?

• The Fossil Record is a strong evidence that the
  Theory of Evolution is wrong
• According the evolution, the fossil record is
  gradually increasing
• Actual fossils show an abrupt beginning
• In fact, the Fossil Record supports creation
• All the fossils found have well-formed features
• There are no fossils with transitional form
  (for example, an arm that is changing into a
  wing)
• All animals appear within a short time as if
  someone designed them all at once !

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Adaptation confirmed fact

• So far, the evidences supporting the Theory of
  Evolution have been wrong or worst lies
• Amino-acids cannot be formed on earth with the
  gasses in earths early atmosphere
• Embryos from different animals do not look alike
  when they are very young
• The only part of the Theory of Evolution that is
  supported by strong evidence is adaptation
• Yes, animals do change to survive

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The truth about adaptation

• Adaptation is not the same thing as evolution
• Adaptation is change (shape and color) within one
  animal specie
• Changes in finches beak does not change the
  finch into a chicken or turkey !!!
• Color change in a moth does not change the moth
  into a butterfly or bee !!!
• Evidence for adaptation is NOT evidence for
  evolution !!!

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Making new animals the great fly experiment

• Starting in 1906, for more than 40 years, Thomas
  Hunt Morgan, a Columbia University zoologist
  tried to create a new type of animal from fruit
  flies
• Fruit flies were ideal because their eggs hatch
  in 12 short days
• Morgan used X-rays on the flies to speed up
  mutations (changes in cells)

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X-ray
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Result of the Fruit Fly experiment
Bar eyes
Vestigial wings
Curled wings
Extra wings (immobile)

• The fruit fly never became anything but a fruit
  fly
• Result does NOT support the theory that one kind
  of animal can change into another kind !

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Designed or Evolved ?

• Morse code
• A   .- B   -... C   -.-. D   -.. E
    . F   ..-.
• Morse code is made up of unique combinations of
  short and long pulses
• To send the word bad in Morse code
• - .- -..
• dee dot dot dot dot dee dee dot dot
• Morse code was designed by intelligent life forms
  (humans) for communication (this was before the
  telephone was invented)

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Designed or Evolved ?

• Remember that a protein molecule is made up of a
  number of different amino-acid molecules?
• Different sequence of amino-acid molecules will
  make a different protein
• How does your body know which amino-acid molecule
  to pick to make the right protein ?

Genetic CODE !
Most likely designed !!!
Every 3 base molecule in DNA identifies one
amino-acid molecule in a protein
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Created or Evolved ?

• Some things in nature are almost impossible to
  have been built without any intelligent maker
• Suppose you see the following contraption
• Would you believe it came about by itself ?

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Created or Evolved ?

• E. Coli bacteria are one-cell creatures that have
  a very ingenious motion mechanism
• They have a flagellum (wip-like tail) that
  rotates around like a propeller
• This propeller can turn 20,000 times per second
  (car engines cant go faster than 8000)
• Its built like an electric engine

Humans cant make engines so small. Can a machine
come about by itself ?
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Summary

• The Theory of Evolution is being taught in school
  text books as true
• But more and more professors from universities
  are finding more and more problems with this
  theory
• Many evidence that evolutionists used to support
  the Theory of Evolution were untrue (lies and
  even frauds !)
• Animal adaptation (change to survive better) is
  supported by evidence, but adaptation is not the
  same as evolution no new animals are created in
  adaptation