Make better use of research cash
Re: “Cell-like” units made by McMaster, Oct. 5
Professors at McMaster University believe that they may have solved the origins of life mystery.
They are testing a theory that suggests life on Earth began in warm little ponds after meteorites splashed into them about four billion years ago. They are using a planet simulator which supposedly uses elements of “primordial soup” that existed at that time. One of their researchers calculated that meteorites bombarded the earth and delivered the building blocks of life that then bonded together to become ribonucleic acid — the basis for the genetic code.
The warm little ponds theory was put forth by Charles Darwin who said, “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”
Biochemist Michael Behe has demonstrated exactly that “break down” through his description of “irreducibly complex” molecular machines. These complicated, microscopic contraptions, such as cilia and bacterial flagella, are extremely unlikely to have been built piece by-piece through Darwinian processes because they had to be fully present in order to function.
The living cell is a marvel of detailed and complex architecture. The amount of DNA information in a simple cell that can be stored in a space the size of a pinhead is mindboggling.
Sir Frederick Hoyle a scientist and renowned mathematician calculated the odds in favour of the chance formation of a simple cell are acknowledged to be worse than 1 in 10 to the power of 40,000
An analogy would be comparable to the odds of rolling double-sixes 50,000 times in a row with unloaded dice.
It is wonderful to do research, but I feel that these professors could make better use of their time and our money from the Ontario government to benefit society through their research programs.
These researchers would save time and money on this project if they would just read Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created” — everything.
Herman Hunter
Niagara Falls