An origin of life experiment in your kitchen

If you've ever had to wash dishes, you've probably learned a little trick about cleaning dried food from dishes and bowls. You know what I'm talking about – you bake a lasagna, now the casserole dish has some baked-on, crusty food that seems near impossible to scrap off. What do you do when that happens? I'll bet you've let the dish soak for a while. Suddenly, voila, the stubborn mess just seems to wipe off as if by magic. You've done this, right? Well, believe it or not, you've just conducted an origin of life experiment right there in your kitchen! Let me explain.

There are a lot of theories regarding the origin of the first life form. Actually, there are no “scientific” theories about the origin of life because anti-creationists are quick to point out that theories are well-tested and substantiated by the evidence. When it comes to abiogenesis, however, evolutionists are a little more relaxed over the use of the term “theory.” Any idea about how life could have formed from non-living chemicals cannot be tested because it has never been observed to happen. Not even once. Ever! So when they're talking about the origin of life, they say “theory” when they mean “guess.”

Anyway, the various theories... er... I mean “guesses” concerning abiogenesis all center around the idea that life began in the oceans. The most popular guess currently is that life first formed near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. Of course, Phys.org reported a couple of years ago about a team of scientists that challenged that idea. According to their research, “the sea is just too salty to provide the ideal conditions necessary to spur life into existence.” Now that's funny. No one has been able to create life under any conditions so how do they know what the “ideal conditions” are? Regardless, they suggested then that hot pools of fresh water formed by thermal vapor are the more likely place where the first life form emerged. Um, but just a couple of days ago, Phys.org published another article saying we've been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years. Now it's being suggested that it's electrostatic discharges or UV radiation that drove life's first chemical reactions in the primordial soup.

Do you see how they are a little bit all over the place with their abiogenesis stories? Regardless, you can see the common theme in all of these guesses is water. Most evolution-believing scientists are so convinced that life began in the sea that, if liquid water is ever found on another planet, they are certain we will find life there also. Oh, really?

According to the US Geological Survey's website, “Water is called the "universal solvent" because it is capable of dissolving more substances than any other liquid.... ¶It is water's chemical composition and physical attributes that make it such an excellent solvent. Water molecules have a polar arrangement of oxygen and hydrogen atoms—one side (hydrogen) has a positive electrical charge and the other side (oxygen) had a negative charge. This allows the water molecule to become attracted to many other different types of molecules. Water can become so heavily attracted to a different compound, like salt (NaCl), that it can disrupt the attractive forces that hold the sodium and chloride in the salt compound together and, thus, dissolves it.” Isn't that interesting? Water is capable of dissolving more substances than any other liquid!

You see, this is why we soak dishes. Water is a solvent and when we soak dishes, the water literally breaks down the organic matter – i.e. food – then it becomes easy to simply wipe it off with a dish cloth. Now, water is vital to every form of life. Water aids in digestion by breaking down our food. Our kidneys use water to filter out harmful substances from our bodies. But in these examples and others, organized systems are using water to break down compounds. Water by itself, though, tends to be destructive. It's tends to break things down – not organize them.

I admit that I'm no chemist but it just sounds odd to believe the first life form organized itself in water. It's sort of a catch-22 for evolutionists: water is so necessary that life could not exist without it. But water, being the universal solvent, would tend to break down amino acids – not allow them to arrange randomly into complex proteins. If you add heat (or energy) to the water, it would actually cause the amino acids to break down even faster.

I don't have to convince you of any of this because you've seen it for yourself. You know what happens when things soak in water. Believing that simple cells could somehow organize in water to become a complex, living organism is laughable. Yet that's the best “origin of life” story that evolutionists have been able to come up with so far. The fact that water tends to break chemicals down instead of organizing them doesn't deter them in the slightest. No matter how ridiculous it sounds, they'll just keep pushing impossible stories until they come up with a plausible-sounding way a complex cell could randomly form in the universal solvent.