THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: CREATURES REPRODUCING THEMSELVES

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. The Origin Of Life  

a) How did life arise on planet earth? This question has tested the wisdom of human beings down through the ages. Scientists of the 21st Century know more about natural life than people knew in times past. However even today scientists are still a long way from discovering (by their own sciences) how life originated.

b) It's not easy to formulate a theory of life's origins that gives rise to testable predictions — especially if your theory insists that all life came from a single “simple” organism formed naturally from stuff without life. A theory with that constraint produces serious puzzles. However, if a theory allows for Earth’s original life to have comprised numerous complex organisms formed by supernatural intelligence, the puzzles don't arise.

2. Creatures Reproducing Themselves

a) Genesis 1:11-12, “seed in itself”

i) Eggs come from chickens and chickens from eggs; fruit trees come from seed and seed from the fruit. This cycle doesn't have a “Start Here” sign, so how did it ever get started? Genesis says that didn't happen. An original organism already had its "seed in itself" (Genesis 1:11-12). Fruit trees (or chickens) didn't have to develop this cycle; it was installed, whole and running, in their original ancestors. Paul says, "What you sow is not the “body” that is to be, but a bare grain, wheat or maybe something else. But God gives it a “body” just as he wished, and to each of the seeds a “body” of its own" (1 Corinthians 15:37-38).

ii) In nature, most of the more complicated organisms procreate by producing a seed or egg which another of them can fertilize. From the seed or egg there emerges a reproduction of themselves — including its own coded information system, derived from theirs, which guides its growth. In turn, it produces a seed or egg and the cycle continues. Again, how did this cycle come into being? Genesis answers this in three words; it says that an original organism had its "seed in itself."

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