Scientific Researchers Ask Questions
It became obvious to all that life could not evolve from an amoeba unless there was first an amoeba to evolve. Once again, scientific researchers began to ask questions. "What would an amoeba eat — even if it were to suddenly appear on a barren, lifeless earth?"
Scientists eventually observed that life as it is found on earth can be sustained only by organic food — food that either is alive or had been alive. But how did that food come to be alive?
Other scientists replied that if an amoeba could not survive without food, neither could a supposed evolving protoplasm — which has not yet evolved enough to be an amoeba — survive the rigors of nature.
How would the first newly evolved cell of life find nourishment in a barren earth devoid of all other life or food necessary to cell life?
Not only had scientists demonstrated that the first cell could not survive — they were soon to demonstrate that the first cell could not arrive!
Life's Complexity Disproves Spontaneous Generation
When most of the recent theories about the origin of life began, a half-century ago, scientists "thought the cell had a fairly simple structure" (LIFE, Article, "Inside a Human Cell," p. 52, March 29, 1963).
They thought it would be a simple matter for so simple a thing as a single cell to evolve. But they did not know that a single cell is so very complex that it could not come into existence by any simple process.
Scientists recently have begun to realize how astonishingly complex a single cell of the human body really is. They have found that even though one human body cell is less than one thousandth of an inch in diameter, this cell contains thousands of different enzyme molecules, protoplasm, cell walls, genes, chromosomes, hundreds of protein molecules, amino acids, deoxyribonucleic acid, adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, mito-chondrions, a highly complex, nucleus, lysosomes, coenzymes, glucose, and many other factors not yet understood (See Scientific American, p. 66, October, 1962; Scientific American, p. 80, March, 1963; LIFE, p. 48, March 29, 1963).
God must certainly laugh at the evolutionist!
God made a single cell so fantastically complex that it is just as impossible for such a cell to have spontaneously sprung from the dead inorganic earth, as it is for a large factory — complete with smokestacks, pipes, boilers, electric blast furnaces, flashing electric neon lights, coffee-break buzzer, machines, air conditioning systems, time clocks, cars, trucks, office equipment, secretaries, typewriters, computers, cafeteria completely stocked — to suddenly spring into existence by "some natural process," let us say, by an earthquake, or a stroke of lightning, or a volcanic eruption.
Man can produce such a factory. GOD CAN create such a living cell. Even the simplest single-celled creature is so astonishingly complex that even an amoeba or a paramecium can no more spontaneously spring from the dead earth than can a large, "ready-to-go" factory spring forth spontaneously.
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Partially cutaway view of a human body cell, enclosed in a diaphanous membrane. Recent scientific discoveries enable man to see the vast array of intricate details of the human body cell. Did non-living matter accidentally arrange itself into such an amazingly complex design? and then give itself life?
Powerful microscopes reveal the single-celled paramecium to be dumb foundingly intricate. Did this highly complex creature suddenly evolve from the mud? How could a creature of such complicated structure — be it ever so small — invent itself and arbitrarily decide to start living? and then start life's processes?
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The Dilemma
In May of 1963 scientists admitted there are only two possible ways for life to begin. "It could be created supernaturally." But the objection is, "Belief in supernatural creation in an act of faith." To even consider God as a possibility makes them lose sleep.
Or as the scientists said, you can believe "life could be created by spontaneous generation, where the atoms present on earth, before life began, got together to form materials and substances which make up all living creatures."
The scientists admit, "It requires as much faith on the part of a scientist" to believe in spontaneous generation "as it does on the part of the laymen to believe in supernatural creation" (Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1963). This leads us to the inevitable conclusion that what scientists don't like about creation is the CREATOR! Nor do theologians really like the Creator either — for if they did they would obey Him!
Today, many theological institutions teach young ministerial students that there is no conflict between the Bible and evolution. When these same deceived young men become preachers they teach their flocks the fiction that evolution was God's METHOD of creation. To cover up, they invent a false interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis to harmonize with the theory of evolution.
Because they don't understand the meaning of the book of Genesis, they don't know WHAT we are — WHY we are — WHERE we are going — what is the real PURPOSE of life — what is the WAY to peace, to happiness, to success, to prosperity in this life. They don't know why God created man in His own image!
Because the influence of the theory of evolution has caused theologians to misinterpret and completely misunderstand the first chapter of Genesis, they fail to understand that God is Ruler and Creator, that the Bible is His revelation to man. These theologians might as well throw the Bible — the one FOUNDATIONAL textbook of ALL KNOWLEDGE — out of the window. Their theology has become a mere speculation about what other scholars think about what some ancient half-pagan church father thought about the Bible.
A Word of Caution
New hypotheses are going to come out; for, as the Encyclopedia Americana admits, "Evolution is incomplete as a scheme of the universe without the hypothesis of spontaneous origin of living things from inorganic matter" (Article, "Spontaneous Generation").
Because there will be scores of new, different, and often conflicting theories, all of which claim to explain how life originated, you need to know how to prove that the existence of God can be tested. Send for the free booklet, "Does God Exist?" and the "Proof of the Bible," and also for the article "Seven Proofs that God Exists."
Think for a moment! Who is your source of truth? Is the God who was present at the creation — who saw, and knew, because He created it all — the source of all truth (John 17:17), or is the skeptical atheist who was not present at the creation — and whose theories have been proved by world-famous scientists to be impossible — the source of all truth? This is the real issue in evolution.
The evolutionist CANNOT know how life was created because he wasn't there.
But God reveals in His Bible things we can't possibly otherwise know.
The Bible, God's revelation to man, reveals that "the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the BREATH OF LIFE" (Gen. 2:7). God does not say He formed an amoeba in the warm ocean slime and gave it life so it could evolve INTO a man.
Your Bible plainly reveals that God put the breath of LIFE into a MAN.
Neither did God form man in the warm ocean slime — but "of the dust of the ground" (Gen. 2:7). Again, man was not created as a single-celled amoeba, but as a complete physical MAN.
Do you think it is logical to say a worm can progressively evolve (CHANGE) into a man just because scientists tried to stretch the period of evolution over millions of years?
You need to fear to deliberately INSULT Almighty God by placing a worm or an amoeba in His place as Progenitor and Creator of man (Ex. 20:2). Your Bible states that "the fear of the LORD is the BEGINNING of knowledge: but FOOLS despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7).
Do you choose to accept the speculation of the evolutionist — who wasn't there at the time — that all life has evolved and gotten better and better ever since the amoeba appeared, or do you believe the first-hand account of the Almighty, All-powerful Creator who was there when creation took place?
If God be God, follow Him. Believe the All-powerful Creator when He teaches us through His BIBLE that our first ancestor was created physically PERFECT, after the very IMAGE OF GOD (Gen. 1:27), but that this first man SINNED. That man is now helpless and lost until he comes to Jesus Christ as his REDEEMER and his Savior — admits that Jesus died for him because all men have sinned, and the penalty for sin is death (Rom. 6:16).
Believe God's claim that Jesus Christ will REDEEM the faithful believer and make him this time spiritually perfect — when He gives eternal life to the faithful at the second coming of Jesus Christ, when, "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." For then "this corruptible . . . shall have put on immortality" (I Cor. 15:52-54).
There is the goal of man revealed! All evolution promises is that you will die like a worm! Which will you choose?