By Dr Stephen Meyer, Ph.D (Cambridge). This is a scientific argument based on the nature of DNA. It is helpful to understand this if you have a scientific background, but even if you do not, Dr. Meyer tries to explain this as simply as he can.
Watch Video: https://youtu.be/LWWFf8G3BKI
If you find the video above interesting, or if you find it beyond your scientific understanding, then it is recommended that you watch the 10 part video series called “Does God Exist” by Dr Meyer, which is available free of cost on Amazon Prime video. This series is designed for first year university students! If you do not have Amazon Prime you can buy the DVD.
Darwin did not explain “the origin of life”. Modern Science, particularly DNA, has now shown that Darwin’s theory cannot explain this basic question. Dr Meyer deals with this problem in detail in his book: “Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design”.
As early as the 1960s, those who approached the problem of the origin of life from the standpoint of information theory and combinatorics observed that something was terribly amiss.
Even if you grant the most generous assumptions: that every elementary particle in the observable universe is a chemical laboratory randomly splicing amino acids into proteins every Planck time for the entire history of the universe, there is a vanishingly small probability that even a single functionally folded protein of 150 amino acids would have been created.
Now of course, elementary particles aren”t chemical laboratories, nor does peptide synthesis take place where most of the baryonic mass of the universe resides: in stars or interstellar and intergalactic clouds.
If you look at the chemistry, it gets even worse”almost indescribably so:
the precursor molecules of many of these macromolecular structures cannot form under the same prebiotic conditions”they must be catalysed by enzymes created only by preexisting living cells, and the reactions required to assemble them into the molecules of biology will only go when mediated by other enzymes, assembled in the cell by precisely specified information in the genome.
So, it comes down to this: Where did that information come from? The simplest known free living organism (although you may quibble about this, given that it”s a parasite) has a genome of 582,970 base pairs, or about one megabit (assuming two bits of information for each nucleotide, of which there are four possibilities).
Now, if you go back to the universe of elementary particle Planck time chemical labs and work the numbers, you find that in the finite time our universe has existed, you could have produced about 500 bits of structured, functional information by random search. Yet here we have a minimal information string which is (if you understand combinatorics) so indescribably improbable to have originated by chance that adjectives fail.
This is dealt with in more detail in the video at https://youtu.be/LWWFf8G3BKI
It is fully dealt with in Dr. Meyer’s Book “Signature in the Cell”.
But the easiest way to understand what Dr Meyer is talking about is to watch the video series “Does God Exist”.
