Chapter 3/What Is the Origin of Life?

OUR earth teems with life.  From the snowy Artic to the Amazon rain forest, from the Sahara Desert to the Everglades swamp, from the dark ocean floor to bright mountain peaks-life abounds. And it is loaded with the potential to amaze us.  

It comes in types, sizes and quantities that stagger the imagination. A million species of insects  human and wiggle on our planet. In the waters around us swim over 20,000 species of fish-some the size of a grain of rice, others as long as  a truck. At least 350,000 plant species-some weird, most wonderful-embellish the land.  And over 9,000 species  of birds fly overhead.  These creatures, including man, for the panorama and symphony that we refer to as life. 

But more amazing than the delightful variety around us is the profound unity linking them. Biochemists, who peek beneath the skin of earth's creatures, explain that all living things-be they amoebas or humans- depend on an awesome interaction:  The teamwork between nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and protein molecules.  The intricate processes involving these components occur in virtually  all our body cells, as it does in the cells of hummingbirds, lions, and whales.  This uniform interaction produces a beautiful mosaic of life. How did this orchestration of life come about?  In fact, what is the origin of life?  

Likely you accept that at one time the earth had no life on it. Scientific opinion agrees, and so do many religious books. Still, you may realize that those two sources-science and religion-differ in explaining how life began on earth.

Millions of people of all educational levels believe that an intelligent Creator, the original Designer, produced life on earth.  In contrast, many scientists say that life arose from nonliving matter,one chemical step after another, merely by chance.  Is it one or is it the other?   

Note: It is Jehovah God, life cannot come from non-living matter.  Only someone with intelligence  as Jehovah's can produce such  living things/matter. Scientists cannot believe in something that they cannot  produce, so they come up with a stupid explanation like the above.  We don't have that kind of intelligence, which Scientists with their type of intelligence not as great as Jehovah's,  cannot accept if they cannot explain it, or  produce it themselves.

Next time: Continue with  What Is the Origin of Life? 

From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About You?