Creation Moment 12/8/2024 - Drunk on Darwine at Groningen

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools..... 

Romans 1:22

"Darwin’s notion (yes, notion, not scientific theory) that mindless nature “selects” for fitness (equated to survival) and that this random shuffling of matter produced human brains out of slime over millions of years has been taken to ridiculous levels.

What came first, life or evolution? Self-replicating molecules demonstrate basic principles of Darwinian evolution (2 Dec 2024, Univ of Groningen via Phys.org). The Darwin lovers who wrote this must have been drunk on Darwine. 

They make natural selection a god.

"In a paper, titled “Competitive exclusion among self-replicating molecules curtails the tendency of chemistry to diversify” published in Nature Chemistry on 29 November, Sijbren Otto, Professor of

Systems Chemistry at the University of Groningen, demonstrates that key principles of Darwinian evolution, such as survival of the fittest, also manifest themselves in simple non-living systems.

Otto and his team used a system of three different self-replicating molecules, that, under the right conditions, grow and divide spontaneously. When set up to compete against each other, all requiring the same chemical building block to grow and replicate, one of them eventually outcompeted the others.

This is an example of “survival of the fittest.” However, when they required different building blocks, all replicators were able to “survive” and co-exist. This resembles how species co-exist in different ecological niches.

These results demonstrate that the basic principles of Darwinian evolution can act on non-living materials, suggesting that evolution predates life. The next step is to investigate where Darwinian evolution can lead such non-living materials.

“This work sheds new light on how life may have emerged from non-living materials and marks an important step in the synthesis of new forms of life in the laboratory.” 

CEH