In River Out of Eden, evolutionist Richard Dawkins describes the intricate functioning of genetic coding in the living cell:
"After Watson and Crick we know that genes themselves . . . are living strings of pure digital information. What is more they are truly digital, in the full and strong sense of computers and compact discs, not in the weak sense of the nervous system. The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers . . . but a quaternary code, with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal. Our genetic system, which is the universal system, for all life on the planet is digital to the core . . . DNA characters are copied with an accuracy that rivals anything modern engineers can do . . . DNA messages . . . are . . . pure digital code."
Distinguished philosopher Thomas Nagel, who describes himself as being “just as much an outsider to religion as Richard Dawkins,” stated:
"The entire apparatus of evolutionary explanation therefore depends on the prior existence of genetic material with these remarkable properties . . . Since the existence of this material or something like it is a precondition of the possibility of evolution, [then] evolutionary theory [itself] cannot explain its existence. We are therefore faced with a problem . . . we have explained the complexity of organic life in terms of something that is itself just as functionally complex as what we originally set out to explain. So the problem is just pushed back a step: how did such a thing come into existence?"
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at New York University, Dr. Robert Shapiro, said:
“The difference between a simple mixture of chemicals and a bacterium, is much more profound than the gulf between a bacterium and an elephant.”
Dr. Paul Davies:
"The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind . . . ingenious marvels of construction and control, with a fine-tuning and complexity as yet unmatched by any human engineering . . . The problem of the origin of life reduces to one of understanding how encoded software emerged spontaneously from hardware. How did it happen? How did nature “go digital?. . . How did something so immensely complicated, so finessed, so exquisitely clever, come into being all on its own? How can mindless molecules, capable of only pushing and pulling their immediate neighbors, cooperate to form something as ingenious as a living organism?"(Dr. Paul Davies)
How did life begin? Darwinian evolution does not make even a pretense of offering natural selection as a credible explanation for addressing how it could have ever driven forward the unfathomable complexity of the life processes inside a bacterium, let alone the complexity of specialized cells interacting with other, different cells (bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi) in a multicellular life form (e.g., our white blood cells' role as warriors against invading pathogens). Science cannot speak logically and coherently about the subject 'origin of life' from within the parameters of a strictly scientific methodology because such a stricture by definition disallows appeal to a personal Creator. But it is not science itself that teaches us to believe only in what the scientific method can explain. Science does not explain how logical thought, emotion, and love of the arts can arise from brain tissues. These are mysteries we live with. For anyone to assume that all valid belief requires scientific explanation is scientism, a religion built on absence of logical reasoning. It is the very absence of logical reasoning whenever atheists put forth their blind-faith assertion that all physical life forms are the product of bimolecular structures that required no purpose-driven engineering feats. The atheist asserts that bacteria just serendipitously 'chanced themselves into existence' as result of molecules randomly bumping against each other for 7 eventualities that are in the life cycle of a bacterium: (1) reproduction (binary fission) absent male and female gametes; (2) assimilation of nutrients needed to sustain life; (3) respiration; (4) sensitivity; (5) growth, as seen in the interphase part of the life cycle for replication of its genetic material and an increase in the cell's cytoplasm immediately before binary fission (mitosis) for the existence of 2 identical cells from the one parent cell); (6) excretion; and (7) movement. For all this, microbes have so incredibly complex a digital software at work in them that there can be no reasonable explanation for their existence except that they have descended from microbes of their own kind, each kind being the product of special creation by an all-wise and all-powerful Creator.
Faith in God is not a blind leap into the unknown, but is a heartfelt conviction based on the evident demonstration of realities that are not seen (Hebrews 11:1). We have an invisible God, yet his existence is unmistakably evidenced by our observation of realities that attest the existence of the God of the Bible. Really, only spirit sons of God saw Him at work in creating the physical universe with mankind as its capstone creation. Although such is a reality impossible for any man ever to have seen with his eyes-- in fact, no man as a man has ever seen or can see the invisible God --, yet we can see with eyes of faith the reality of a God who is love. We do so by our witnessing the things he has created. Here is how the Bible puts the matter at Romans 1:19, 20: ". . . because what may be known about God is clearly evident [even] among them [who act wickedly]. For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world's creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they [i.e., the willfully blind, faithless ones] are inexcusable."
If you are not afraid to honestly consider argument for the existence of the God of the Bible, then consider yourself invited to visit JW.ORG and type into the search bar anyone of the following publication titles: "Was Life Created?," or "Origin of Life," or "Was It Designed?" You can access all publications found on JW.ORG free of charge, and also without solicitation of any of your personal information. If, however, you wish to have one of Jehovah's Witnesses to visit you in the very near future, then submit a request to that effect. If you would like for me to facilitate such a visit by JWs who live in reasonable proximity to you -- as is most likely to be the case --, then email me at endenux@sapo.pt and state your name and address. I will be happy to contact JWs who can assist you to better understand the teachings of the Bible and thereby build your faith in God's holy word, the Bible you may currently have in your possession.
