in the beginning was matter and matter
begat the amoeba if there is no god that
is the series of events that is forced
on a person you see you would have to
suggest that the cosmos is all that
there is all that there was or all that
there ever will be you would have to say
that there’s no intelligent supernatural
creator who brings life into existence
and so you would have to say that
somewhere in the distant past life arose
from nonliving chemicals now there’s a
very serious scientific problem with
this it breaks one of the most
fundamental biological laws known to
humankind the law of biogenesis the law
of biogenesis is very simple to
understand by all means life Genesis
means beginning the law of biogenesis
simply says that life comes from
previously existing life of its own kind
in our material natural world the for
years people didn’t think that that was
the case and so they naturally thought
you could just get non living chemicals
to produce life and they had examples
for that in fact what they called
scientific examples they said sure
enough if you will take a stake and
place it on your kitchen counter in the
middle of the summer and come back in
maybe a week or two do you know what
you’ll find
oh you’ll find maggots that have
spontaneously generated on that steak
and that was supposedly evidence of life
coming from non living chemicals they
said that’s not all if you were to take
some old sweaty rags and you were to
wrap them with some wheat and put them
in the corner of a barn and come back in
a month or so you would have
spontaneously generated mice and
sometimes rats from the chemical
properties of the air and the rags and
the wheat well several scientists were
studying this and they thought hold on
just a second we’re not sure that these
chemical processes are bringing about
life and they did some experiments in
fact are very
famous experiments and virtually every
biology textbook that you will ever read
one of them is by a man named Francisco
ready or Francisco Reedy you spell his
name are EDI his experiment was very
very simple he simply took some meat put
it in a jar several jars actually and he
put those jars to one side and he didn’t
cover them or put anything on top of the
jars and the other group of jars he put
meat in the bottom of those and
hermetically sealed airtight these jars
on this side and then he watched he
watched as flies flew into the meat that
was uncovered and they tried to fly into
the meat that was covered and they
couldn’t and maggots formed on the
uncovered meat maggots did not form on
the covered meat and so he said I think
flies are producing maggots now the
naysayers of his experiment said hold on
just a second your problem is you didn’t
let air get into the meat in the sealed
jars and that’s what it takes for
spontaneous generation to occur air to
get into the meat and so he said well
let’s try it again
put some jars over here with meat in the
bottom and no seal put some jars in the
middle with meat in the bottom and gauze
like netting substance on the top and
then put the sealed jars with meat over
here flies landed on the sealed jars
couldn’t get in flies landed on the
netting that was on top of the middle
jars and maggots formed on the netting
but not in the meat and then over here
the maggots formed on the meat in the
unsealed jars so in 1660 really said I
think that flies are producing maggots I
don’t think that they are spontaneously
generating and everybody said and we
think you’re right but then basically
when they asked him what about other
forms of life can they spontaneously
generate he said yeah just not maggots
well that idea continued for about
another 200 years until the mid 1860s in
the mid 1860s a man came along that
you’re probably very familiar with even
though you might not know that you are
if you were to go to your refrigerator
in the morning and pull out a gallon of
milk or
apple juice on the side of it you would
read that it’s pasteurized what does it
mean that milk is pasteurized well it
means that there’s a process called
pasteurization that was named for a
scientist named Louis Pasteur Louis
Pasteur proved once and for all that
life doesn’t spontaneously generate from
non living chemicals in fact in 1860
1868 or so around that time passed sure
did some experiments where he would put
meat broth or hay broth in the bottom of
a flask and he would boil it and then in
the 1860s they had microscopes and they
would zoom in on that broth and they
would see that before he boiled it there
were millions of swimming microscopic
organisms after he boiled it it killed
all of those microscopic organisms well
the interesting thing about this
particular experiment was that those
flasks had a special s-shaped curve so
air could get back into the broth but
that special s shape was designed to
catch all microscopic organisms as they
went through the neck man it was very
effective it did some of those flasks he
would keep for over a year and then
break the neck off the air would go back
unhindered to the meat broth and
microscopic organisms would form Reidy
pass your other scientists who did
experiments like this proved once and
for all that life cannot does not come
from non living chemicals in fact
evolutionist Martin Moe correctly
commented that a century of sensational
discoveries in the biological sciences
has taught us that life arises only from
life even the eminent evolutionist Georg
Gaylord Simpson observed that there is
no serious doubt that biogenesis is the
rule that life comes only from other
life that a cell the unit of life is
always and exclusively the product or
offspring of another cell now that puts
people who don’t believe in God in a
very serious quandary if this material
universe is all that there is and all
that there was and all that there ever
will be and life somehow in the
beginning came from nonliving chemicals
and yet every single scientific
experiment ever done in the biological
sciences proves that can’t be the case
then what’s the alternative well the
alternative is that there was a super
natural intelligent being at the
beginning who brought life into
existence now what you’ll hear from the
atheistic evolutionary teaching is that
we just haven’t found how life came from
nonliving chemicals we think it did we
suggest it had – like George Wald said
back in 1950 he said to make an organism
demands the right substances in the
right proportions and in the right
arrangement we do not think that
anything more is needed but that is
problem enough one has only to
contemplate the magnitude of this task
to concede that the spontaneous
generation of a living organism is
impossible yet here we are you see he
says hey this isn’t possible yet we’re
here so it must have happened in the
past so we’ve got to find out how it did
happen and yet here’s the problem it’s
not that science hasn’t found the answer
yet it’s that science has found the
answer and the answer is that
spontaneous generation is impossible in
nature it’s not as if one day we’re
going to find the answer as if we do a
million more experiments it’s still out
there we’re just in a system or
situation of doubt right now I know
listen every single scientific
experiment in biology ever done proves
that life cannot spontaneously generate
from non living chemicals about 50 years
after Wald made his statement Kenneth
Miller and Joseph Levine in their book
biology wrote that Louis Pasteur
convinced other scientists that the
hypothesis of spontaneous generation was
not correct in other words pasture
showed that all living things come from
other living things this change in
thinking represented a major shift in
the way scientists viewed living things
made your shift indeed if that statement
is true and scientifically it’s one of
the most valid scientific statements
ever made
atheism cannot be true and in the
beginning God is the real scientific
answer
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