The Impossible Problem of the Origin of Life - Dr. Don Batten

People all over the world are taught that everything in nature—including life itself—is the result of purely natural processes. Is this right? Did life form itself? Is that even possible? What would it take? What ingredients would the simplest, self-replicating life need? Or are people being misled—in the name of ‘science’? Join biologist Dr Don Batten for a discussion of the origin of life. Learn why the very laws of chemistry dictate that life could never form itself—not even in a trillion years! ⏳ TIMESTAMPS ⌛ 00:00 Teaser 00:27 Introduction: The impossible problem of the origin of life 01:54 What ingredients do we need to form life? 02:14 → Amino acids 03:18 → Sugars 03:46 → Nucleic acids (DNA & RNA) 04:10 → Lipids 05:03 Problem: The ingredients don’t play well together! 05:11 → The conditions needed for amino acids are the wrong conditions for sugars 05:41 → Necessary metallic ions wreak havoc with necessary lipids 06:33 → High energy compounds (e.g. lipids) are unlikely to form in the same ‘soup’ as low energy compounds (e.g. sugars) 06:54 Problem: Chirality (or ‘handedness’) – Amino acids must only be left-handed, sugars must only be right-handed 09:01 Problem: The origin of coded information (DNA) in living things 09:36 → How could an encoding/decoding system arise by chance? 10:59 → The genetic code is optimised – and that's not possible without pre-planning 11:28 → The sheer volume of genetic information needed for the ‘simplest’ life is overwhelming 13:15 → Multiple, complex cellular ‘machines’ are needed for the information system to work at all 14:04 Would Darwin be a Darwinist today? 14:46 Problem: Probability shows the impossibility of the chance origin of even a single protein 19:10 Solution: How did life come about? 19:26 → The need for a super intelligent Designer 21:03 → Why is this such an unpopular conclusion? 21:24 Why should the Designer be the God of the Bible? 22:32 Where to get more information on origin-of-life problems ✍️ LINKS AND SHOW NOTES • Origin of Life – https://creation.com/origin-of-life • 15 loopholes in the evolutionary theory of the origin of life – https://creation.com/loopholes-in-the... • Origin of Life Q&A – https://creation.com/origin-of-life-q... • Why the Miller–Urey research argues against abiogenesis – https://creation.com/why-the-miller-u... • Origin of First Life: Chemical Evolution vs Real Chemistry –    • Origin of First Life: Chemical Evolut...   • Would Darwin be a Darwinist today? – https://creation.com/would-darwin-be-... 📚 HELPFUL RESOURCES • The Stairway to Life (book) – https://creation.com/s/10-2-671 • Chemicals to Living Cells (streaming video) – https://creation.com/s/35-8-530 • Evolution Impossible (book) – https://creation.com/s/10-2-643 • An Industrial Chemist's Origin of Life Cookbook (audio) – https://creation.com/s/35-1-033 💙 SOCIAL MEDIA ► Facebook:   / creationministries   ► TikTok:   / creationministries   ► Instagram:   / creationministries   ► X / Twitter:   / creationnews   ► eNewsletter: https://creation.com/infobytes 📅 EVENTS We present at hundreds of events around the world each year. To see what events are happening near you, or to request a creation presentation in your Church (or other gathering) visit: https://creation.com/events

How did life originate? -15 Questions for Evolutionists - Q1 - Genesis Unleashed

1.How did life originate? Evolutionist Professor Paul Davies admitted, “Nobody knows how a mixture of lifeless chemicals spontaneously organized themselves into the first living cell.”1 

Andrew Knoll, professor of biology, Harvard, said, “we don’t really know how life originated on this planet”.2 

A minimal cell needs several hundred proteins. Even if every atom in the universe were an experiment with all the correct amino acids present for every possible molecular vibration in the supposed evolutionary age of the universe, not even one average-sized functional protein would form. So how did life with hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design? See: creation.com/loopholes.

 Creation Ministry International's '15 Questions for Evolutionists' flyer summarizes 15 major problems with evolution. Some evolutionists have attempted to answer the questions. In this episode Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith discuss the question and the attempts to answer it.

Related content

• List of the 15 questions with supporting information

• Responses to evolutionist's objections

References 1.Davies, Paul, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Sydney, New Scientist 179(2403):32, 2003. Return to text. 2.Knoll, Andrew H., PBS Nova interview, How Did Life Begin? July 1, 2004. Return to text.

The Devastation of Evolution - Chirality (Evolution is a "Catastrophic Failure")

Read Charles McCombs, Ph.D. detailed article, Evolution Hopes You Don't Know Chemistry: The Problem with Chirality

This video and the article show the absolute impossibility that life could have arose from non-life. The video also shows how the Miller/Urey experiment, which created life from non-life in the lab according to the media, was a failure.

Dr. Charles McCombs, Ph.D. is a chemist and a Christian apologist. He holds two degrees: A Ph.D. in organic chemistry from UCLA, and a B.S. in chemistry from CSULB. Dr. McCombs uses his passion for chemistry to educate others, show proof that God created everything, and to further the kingdom of God.

Publications

Chemistry by Chance: A Formula for Non-Life by Charles McCombs, Ph.D., Acts & Facts Feb 1, 2009.
Evolution Hopes You Don't Know Chemistry: The Problem with Chirality by Charles McCombs, Ph.D., Acts & Facts May 1, 2004
Evolution Hopes You Don't Know Chemistry: The Problem of Control by Charles McCombs, Ph.D., Acts & Facts Aug 1, 2004
Cyanide -- An Ingredient for Life? by Charles McCombs, Ph.D. and Brian Thomas, M.S., Acts & Facts Nov 30, 2009

Education
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, University of California in Los Angeles: Westwood, CA, 1978.
B.S. in Chemistry, California State University in Long Beach: Long Beach, CA. Nominated for Phi Beta Kappa; 1973

Work History
1978-1998: Principal Research Chemist, Eastman Chemical Company; Kingsport, Tennessee
1998-2008: Teacher at West Charlotte Christian Academy
2008-2010: Associate Professor of Chemistry, Institute for Creation Research
2008-2010: Assistant Director, National Creation Science Foundation

Patents
-Method of preparing 11.beta., 17.alpha., 20, 21-tetrahydroxy steroids and corresponding 11.beta., 17.alpha., 21-trihydroxy-20-oxo steroids Charles A. McCombs, Charles T. Goodhue, Gwendolyn C. Kydd, Charles H. Foster, Filed February 6,1984
-Dehydroformylation of steroidal aldehydes Charles A. McCombs, Charles H. Foster, Filed August 14, 1980
-Organic compositions and their manufacture Charles A. McCombs, Filed August 28, 1989
-Preparation of 4-carboalkoxy-1,3-cyclohexanedione type compounds Charles A. McCombs, Filed February 24, 1989
-Process for preparing 17.alpha.-hydroxy-20-ketosteroids Charles A. McCombs, Filed March 16, 1981
-Extrusion of an admixture of a meltable binder and a food or drug Charles A. McCombs, Pierre Autant, Jacques Ruel, Stephen Weinhold, Ernest P. Smith, Stephen H. Wu, and Louis P. Hoskins, Filed June 21, 1991
-Process for preparing 9,11-unsaturated steroidal compound from the corresponding saturated steroidal compund Charles A. McCombs, John A. Hyatt, Filed September 5, 1980
-Method for obtaining a stigmasterol enriched product from deodorizer distillate Charles A. McCombs, Tommy L. Tackett, Filed May 13, 1991
-Nutritive water soluble glycerol esters of hydroxy butyric acid Charles A. McCombs, Ronald H. Birkhahn, Robert J. Clemens, Filed June 6, 1995
-Process for preparing 21-lower alkoxyoxalylprogesterones Charles A. McCombs, Filed March 2, 1981
-Nutritive glycerol esters of .beta.-acyloxy butyrates Charles A. McCombs, Ronald H. Birkhahn, Robert J. Clemens, John C. Hubbs, Filed May 3, 1995
-Enteral formula or nutritional supplement containing arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids Charles A. McCombs, Terrence B. Mazer, Robert A. Miller, Scott D. Barnicki, James C. Phillips, Charles E. Sumner, Jr., Filed January 26, 1996
-Polyunsaturated fatty acids and fatty acid esters free of sterols and phosphorous compunds Charles A. McCombs, Robert A. Miller, Terrence B. Mazer, Filed January 26, 1996
-Preparation of 3-buten-1-ol from 3,4-epoxy-1-butene Charles A. McCombs, Filed January 20, 1998