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Expanding Universe/Big Bang
Discovery of the red shift of light indicates stars/galaxies from all directions are moving away from us. The universe is expanding and had a beginning, commonly titled the Big Bang, indicating energy/matter appearing from nonexistence.
Fine Tuning/Goldilocks Universe
Physicists discover the parameter settings of the physical universe including speed of light, electromagnetism, gravity and many more, and find that if any of these parameters were a faction different life could not exist on earth.
DNA/Code Language
The DNA code A, C, G, T is code language that conveys information to the cell. Encoding and decoding. Cells transcribe DNA into RNA and translate RNA into proteins—an encoding/decoding pipeline analogous to writing and reading. Information‑theory models have been used to map this process to engineered communication systems. Information/code comes from a mind.
Irreducible Complexity
In contrast to the theory mutation and natural selection accounts for all living structures, with the development of molecular biology we find living structures that have Irreducible Complexity, a single system composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. You don't naturally select for part of a system that has no benefit.
Example 1 — Bacterial flagellum
What it is: a rotary motor‑like structure that propels many bacteria, built from dozens of protein parts (structural, rotor, stator, hook, filament).
Because many parts are required for motility, removing any one part would abolish function, so the flagellum is irreducibly complex and thus unlikely to have evolved stepwise.
Example 2 — Blood‑clotting cascade
What it is: a multi‑step biochemical cascade of proteases and cofactors that converts soluble fibrinogen into insoluble fibrin to stop bleeding.
The cascade requires many interacting proteins in sequence; loss of any essential component prevents clotting, so the system is irreducibly complex.
Insufficient Time for New Body Types
Research has been done with bacteria (etc) to see how many successful mutations can occur to get an idea of how many years it would take to create the life in the fossil record.
Earth was cool enough to support life at aprox 2.5 billion years ago. Calculations have been made and there isn't even close to enough time.
Failure to produce living cell from primordial catalysts and electricity
In 1953 the Urey-Miller experiment was able to produce some amino acids for a period of time. The hope was continuing research would produce life. But after 73 years of research into molecular biology and DNA what was hoped to be close it is now understood to stretch to the horizon. Various amino acids have a short life and so many conditions are necessary to create rudimentary structures such as proteins. How life begin is not known, and there's a long way to go.
In select theaters now The Story of Everything (link to find theater/showtimes) Trailer:
Expanding Universe/Big Bang
Discovery of the red shift of light indicates stars/galaxies from all directions are moving away from us. The universe is expanding and had a beginning, commonly titled the Big Bang, indicating energy/matter appearing from nonexistence.
Fine Tuning/Goldilocks Universe
Physicists discover the parameter settings of the physical universe including speed of light, electromagnetism, gravity and many more, and find that if any of these parameters were a faction different life could not exist on earth.
DNA/Code Language
The DNA code A, C, G, T is code language that conveys information to the cell. Encoding and decoding. Cells transcribe DNA into RNA and translate RNA into proteins—an encoding/decoding pipeline analogous to writing and reading. Information‑theory models have been used to map this process to engineered communication systems. Information/code comes from a mind.
Irreducible Complexity
In contrast to the theory mutation and natural selection accounts for all living structures, with the development of molecular biology we find living structures that have Irreducible Complexity, a single system composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. You don't naturally select for part of a system that has no benefit.
Example 1 — Bacterial flagellum
What it is: a rotary motor‑like structure that propels many bacteria, built from dozens of protein parts (structural, rotor, stator, hook, filament).
Because many parts are required for motility, removing any one part would abolish function, so the flagellum is irreducibly complex and thus unlikely to have evolved stepwise.
Example 2 — Blood‑clotting cascade
What it is: a multi‑step biochemical cascade of proteases and cofactors that converts soluble fibrinogen into insoluble fibrin to stop bleeding.
The cascade requires many interacting proteins in sequence; loss of any essential component prevents clotting, so the system is irreducibly complex.
Insufficient Time for New Body Types
Research has been done with bacteria (etc) to see how many successful mutations can occur to get an idea of how many years it would take to create the life in the fossil record.
Earth was cool enough to support life at aprox 2.5 billion years ago. Calculations have been made and there isn't even close to enough time.
Failure to produce living cell from primordial catalysts and electricity
In 1953 the Urey-Miller experiment was able to produce some amino acids for a period of time. The hope was continuing research would produce life. But after 73 years of research into molecular biology and DNA what was hoped to be close it is now understood to stretch to the horizon. Various amino acids have a short life and so many conditions are necessary to create rudimentary structures such as proteins. How life begin is not known, and there's a long way to go.
