Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts

Friday, October 17, 2008

Does Miller's experiment prove evolution?

After reading this link about Miller's experiment, I decided to respond to it:
Miller's Experiment

In Miller's experiment the earth's atmosphere was assumed to be without oxygen. The problem is with no oxygen, there is no shield from harmful UV rays. This would have killed the "soup". Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem?

In the experiment both L and D stereotype amino acids were formed. Life only uses L stereotype amino acids. Does anyone know why that is?

What process combined the amino acids into DNA strands in the proper sequence? Does anyone know?

What process created the cell micro-machines that perform the translation of sections of DNA into messenger RNA? Does anyone know?

What process created the cellular protein regulation process? Does anyone know?

Some microbiologists spend their entire lives trying to understand the complex processes and information of cells. In the past, scientists believed that the cell was as simple as gelatin. The current understanding of the inner workings of a single cell is that it is equivalent to the complexity of the factories of General Motors and all of its part manufacturers. We still don't understand the main control process of the cell (when the cell is told to start making a protein and to stop making a protein). This is equivalent to the the inventory department at GM deciding to create more Chevy Cobalt Cars because those are in demand and stopping Chevy Suburban SUV production. What is staggering is the amount of information contained in the RNA to make a single protein. Similarly the design plans for a single General Motors car and the processes to create one are overwhelmingly complex.

To think that all the factories and processes of General Motors could be created accidentally is utter nonsense. In the Miller experiment essentially what they have created in General Motors terms is raw steel. Steel by itself doesn't create the design blueprint for the car (equivalent to an RNA section for a specific protein). Steel by itself doesn't create processes to build assembly line robots that build cars (equivalent to cell micro machines). Steel by itself doesn't create the transformers that convert the AC into DC to power the robots (cell glucose conversion into energy). Steel by itself can't create the process to create a new assembly plant (cellular mitosis; cell division).

Just as it is obvious that someone designed and built that car you are driving; it is obvious that someone designed and built proteins. Just as it is obvious that someone designed and created the processes of General Motors, it is obvious that someone designed and created the processes of cells. Each cell in your body has a specific purpose and works together with other cells. Doctor's still don't understand how everything works in the human body because it is so complex. There are around 300 cell categories. At this level, imagine a company 300 times the size and complexity of General Motors all working together. There is an estimated 10 million species on earth. At this level imagine a company 3 trillion times the size and complexity of General Motors.

Consider the biological process complexity. The processes and interactions between the processes are incomprehensible. Consider your job. Whether you flip burgers or are Joe the Plumber; processes don't happen by accident. At any level, you had some kind of training or education to do your job. Processes are designed.

But couldn't over millions of years the amino acids combine to create the DNA chains? Couldn't the processes be created by accident by the environment? Let's take that same argument to our GM example. Over millions of years, couldn't the raw steel create blueprints to create assembly line robots? Couldn't the raw steel create the assembly line robots? Couldn't the raw steel create the hardware programs and processes for the robots to create the cars? As silly as that sounds, the equivalent comparison is what evolutionists are claiming about amino acids. By itself, raw steel does nothing. By itself, amino acids do nothing.

Someone had to make the banana so you could eat it. Someone had to create the processes in your body to digest it. Someone had to make the bacteria in your intestine to break it down.

That someone is God.

Friday, July 11, 2008

The Greatest Video on YouTube

My brother in law (also a Christian) recently forwarded me a video on YouTube about Laminin. My wife is a Micro Biologist so it always peaks my interest to see something cool that God has created at the molecular level.



Laminin is great not only because it is evidence of God; but that God is an awesome coder. Only God is awesome. Laminin is only one protein in the body. As a coder myself, I am especially impressed with some other code God has written. There is a cell process to translate RNA into protein molecules. RNA is basically a subset of DNA. What is happening in this process is you have a section of RNA code copying another section of RNA code. My current project is a smart client application with a WCF back end. I can't help but think of the similarity between RNA translation and performing translations of proxy objects to client objects. Not long ago scientists used to believe that cells were no more complicated than Jello. It just goes to show you how dumb we are and how incredible God is. Anyone looking at the application that we developed can see comments with our names. Laminin is God's code comment.

Read Colossians 1:16-17 below.

Colossians 1:16-17
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

It is funny how my mind works, but when I see this verse I think of the Stephen Wright joke "What do batteries run on?" Being a software engineer if one of my kids asked that question I would explain that there is a chemical reaction that produces a flow of electrons from the positive terminal to the negative terminal. The problem is, now I am stuck because I can't explain what electrons run on. At the atomic level, electrons circle the nucleus in an electron cloud. What gives electrons the power to circle the nucleus? I believe that God is present even at the atomic level. He is the one that keeps the electrons circling the nucleus and holding everything together. After seeing the Laminin video it is clear that God put molecular processes in place to hold things together as well.