Have you ever squashed a mosquito? Interestingly, the squashing of a mosquito may help us understand what makes life possible and what makes the spontaneous generation of life impossible.
When a mosquito is slapped, what happens? Obviously it’s shape changes and it dies. But what makes it die? All of the thousands of sophisticated chemicals which make up its body are still there, relatively unaltered. At the moment of impact its cellular components are still intact including the all-important DNA. So why is it now dead?
Prior to being smashed, the mosquito was a highly organized system with much organized information. But when hit, it became disordered, causing critical information in the design of its body to become jumbled. There arose confusion in the finely tuned coordination of chemistry (including the chemicals involved in its overall structure) which culminated in an overall breakdown, resulting in death. And you thought you just slapped it!
For another example, let’s say you were to take 100 million bacteria and concentrate them in the bottom of a test tube. Now if you were to physically lyse (break open) the membrane of each of the cells, the insides would spill out, forming a concentrated mixture of incredibly complex “life-giving” chemicals. Yet, even though all of the right ‘stuff’ for life is there, not even one of the 100 million critters will come back to life, nor would any new creature arise.
For a third example lets consider the food industry. Each year over a billion containers of previously living chemical ingredients are placed into containers where light and/or heat can pass through (an open thermo-dynamic system.) Everything needed for life to form is present in each jar or can. Yet not once, in any can or jar, does new life form.
If the already complex chemistry of minuscule bacteria or canned food cannot reorganize itself back into a living cell, even when concentrated in the test tube environment under carefully controlled conditions, then how could life have evolved in the first place, from basically uncomplicated chemicals in conditions FAR less appropriate? It simply never could have happened!
As with the mosquito, in order for life to exist the chemistry must be specifically organized and controlled in time as well as space. For a cell to live, it must be surrounded by a sophisticated membrane that allows only certain chemicals in and out, according to when they are needed, not just at any time. Inside the cell, the amount of any chemical must be exactly correct, otherwise the whole system would be thrown off balance and the organism would die. Furthermore, the entire living organism must be controlled by the fantastically complex three dimensional genetic coded structure of DNA.
All this means that in order for the chemistry to have come together in the first place, the individual atoms must have been purposefully and simultaneously organized by a creator having the knowledge and power to do such a thing. It could not possibly have happened by the right chemicals just “coming together”.
It is Jesus, the Son of the Living God, who deserves our praise for the awesome things He has accomplished in this creation of His. There is no other plausible explanation for the complex life we find all around us. Yet, this plausible explanation is the only one not allowed to be discussed in our public schools!
Tom Wagner is a nature photographer and science teacher living in Iowa who writes on the evidence for creation. This article was first published in Creation magazine, www.AnswersInGenesis.org
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