THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: NON-LIVING MATTER TO LIVING CREATURE

(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. Non-living Matter To Living Creature

a) Genesis 1:3, “and God said”

i) How did the first organism form by natural processes? Genesis says that didn't happen. Rather, descriptions of the first life on earth are prefaced with the words, "and God said..." (Genesis 1:3, 11,20, 24,26). All worlds, including our world and the life in it, came into being "by the word of God" (Hebrews 11:3, 2 Peter 3:5).

ii) In nature, non-living matter can change from chaos to order — water forming into ice crystals for example. But even the simplest living thing is thousands of times more organized, and contains within itself a very complex encoded information system that tells it how to grow and reproduce. The richest conceivable mix of materials and natural forces appears quite insufficient to account for such an organism’s origin. Genesis accounts for it in three words: "and God said..." 

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