Reisterstown Baptist Church
25 E. Chestnut Hill Lane - Reisterstown, MD  21136
No Chance of Life by Chance

Even the simplest living cell is an incredibly complex machine. It must be capable of detecting malfunctions,
repairing itself, and making copies of itself. Man has never succeeded in building a machine capable of these
same functions. Yet most scientists accept the belief that life arose from non-life (in spite of the evidence
clearly indicating that it did not and could not happen). This incredible belief is as absurd as finding a
complex chemical manufacturing facility on Mars and assuming that it built itself.

One classic experiment which is used to support the belief that life "built itself" is an experiment by Stanley
Miller in 1953. In this experiment sparks were discharged into an apparatus which was circulating common
gases. These gases reacted to form various organic products which were collected and analyzed. The
experiment succeeded in producing only a few of the 20 amino acids required by itself. Furthermore, the
dozens of major problems with this experiment as an explanation for the formation of life are seldom reported.

For instance, our early atmosphere was assumed to have no oxygen because this would stop amino acid
formation. However, with no oxygen, there would be no ozone shield. With no ozone shield, life would also be
impossible. Furthermore, oxidized rocks throughout the geologic record indicate that oxygen has always
been present.

In addition to this, the same gases which can react to form amino acids undergo known reactions in the
presence of sunlight which remove them from the atmosphere. The required gases would not have been
around long enough for life to have developed! In addition, a cold trap was used to keep the reaction
products from being destroyed as fast as they formed.

The biggest problem is that the amino acids formed in this experiment are always a 50/50 mixture of
stereotypes (L and D forms). Stereotypes are like a drawer full of right-hand and left-hand gloves, identical in
every way except a mirror image of each other. Life contains only L stereotypes of these randomly produced
amino acids. Yet equal proportions of both types are always produced. How could the first cell have selected
only L stereotypes from a random, equally reactive mixture? No answer to this has ever been found.

These are just a few of the problems with the fanciful idea that life generated itself. The linking of these
randomly produced amino acids into the required proteins is an even more overwhelming impossibility. No
experiment has ever shown that matter has the ability to come alive. The best explanation for life is still that
"life only comes from pre-existing life". As you search for truth, perhaps you should consider the possibility
that the source of all life... is GOD.