For we have not followed cunningly devised fables...
2 Peter 1:16
"Now, one popular idea is that life (or
at least life’s building blocks) 
was seeded to earth via a stellar
visitor, such as a meteorite. And a recent article claims
that by mimicking “cosmic evolution” in the lab, researchers have
created some of the building blocks of life. But what’s really going on
here?
Well, these scientists tried to
recreate conditions in outer space from “billions of years ago” to
attempt to answer the question: did amino acids (the building blocks of
proteins which are essential to life) form in our solar system or in an
interstellar cloud?
Believing these amino acids could form in clouds,
the researchers created ices and blasted them with radiation. That
radiation broke the molecules apart, and they reformed into amino acids,
such as ethylamine and glycine. The researchers believe it was amino
acids, like the ones formed in their experiment, that then ended up on
asteroids, which then ended up on earth, and from there, life began.
Life is infinitely more complex than a
few amino acids lying in some sticky residue.
---It requires 20 different
amino acids, arranged in meaningful ways to build proteins and also
needs an entire language system to build and use these proteins . . . so
one or two amino acids isn’t getting even close to anything resembling
life!
It’s worth noting that, toward the end
of the article, the researchers acknowledge that “even after simulating
asteroid conditions, the amines and amino acids they produced still
didn't match those in meteorites.” So what they created in the lab
doesn’t even match what we find when we examine actual meteorites, the
supposed “spaceship” that brought these amino acids to earth! (They
believe this may be due to contamination, but further research from
outer space will answer that question in the near future.)
Also keep in mind with research like
this that anything involving a simulation involves a host of assumptions
from the researcher and intelligence in designing the experiments.
For
example, these researchers are assuming the initial conditions from
supposed billions of years ago and the conditions of the asteroids these
amino acids supposedly hitched an interstellar ride on. Wrong
assumptions result in wrong conclusions!" AIG
