Origin of Life

At the heart of the origin-of-life question lies an intricate puzzle: how could the building blocks of life — DNA, RNA, and proteins — have come together without intelligent guidance? Without both DNA and proteins present, neither can function to create a living cell, leading to a “chicken-and-egg” dilemma that challenges purely natural explanations.

Dr Don Batten dives into the science behind these questions, exploring the barriers to life’s spontaneous origin and examining claims that evolution bypasses the origin issue. His analysis reveals that life’s complexity, from amino acid chirality to the programming of DNA, remains an unsolved mystery, echoing the need for an intelligent Creator.

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🔗 Links and Show Notes

👉 Original article: Origin of Life

🎧 Podcasts:

• Why Evolution is a Fairytale for Grown-ups


• Quantum Biology and the Origin of Life


• Why Life Couldn’t Have Evolved


• Time—No Friend of Evolution

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• Evolutionist criticisms of the RNA World conjecture


• Origin of life: the polymerization problem


• Origin of life: instability of building blocks


• Different understandings of origins?

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