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I found this mini-course by chemist Dr James Tour which explains problems with origin of life research. One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of science is how life originated on Earth. How do you get a working cell from a soup of chemicals? This problem is a lot deeper than most people assume, including scientists. Scientists grossly underestimate what cells are and how they work. I find it fascinating to contemplate this issue.
Dr James Tour is a brilliant chemist who unravels some of the BS and hype that has been plaguing origin of life research. He has dozens of videos on his channel that go into great detail, below I link just a few of them:
A Course On Abiogenesis - EP 7 - Peptides
A Course On Abiogenesis - EP 8 - Nucleotides
A Course On Abiogenesis - EP 9 - Lipids
Now, it's important to underscore that even though the above work casts serious doubt on origins of life research, you should not take this to mean that life did not originate through a natural process. I'm not suggesting that life happen through some magical means via a bearded man in the clouds. All that's being said is that scientists have no idea how exactly life got started and they take the issue of creating life from basic chemical building blocks for granted. The point of these videos is not to deny science or natural origins of life, nor to smuggle in Jesus, but to better appreciate how amazing and unique life is. My goal here is to help you recognize and appreciate the sheer genius of life.
Note: Dr James Tour is a born-again Christian, but he is also one of the world's top chemists, with over 100 patents. His science is solid and straight. He does not pollute it with talk of religion.
Mearsheimer has some of the best analysis of geopolitics and foreign policy I've ever heard. What's most remarkable about him is how objective and unbiased he is.
This explanation isn't technically rigorous, but what it lacks in rigor is makes up for in profundity:
In other words: INFINITY!
If you look at molecular biology and you don't see God, you're more blind than a bat.
The intelligence and engineering that runs through every living cell in your body is absolutely mind-boggling and insane, and humans have only just begun to scratch its surface.
Look at this! Just look!
It's not a question of, Did God design this? No! THIS IS GOD! You're looking at GOD! GOD isn't a bearded man in the sky, GOD is what you see above.
It's insane that any of this works!
None of this is happening through "random mutation" or lucky coincidence.
Just 1 cell in your body is more intelligent and more masterfully engineered than any human machine. Scientists take this completely for granted. No human on this planet is intelligent enough to design even a single cell. No biologist has ever made a cell from basic chemical parts in the lab. Not even close. They don't even have a theory for how it can be done. It is easier to build a rocket ship that flies to Mars than it is to build a single cell from scratch!
Your body contains about 100 trillion cells. And if they stopped coordinating perfectly with each other, you'd be dead within minutes. Compare this to humans, who can barely keep a society of 100 million people together. A single human body is more complex and more intelligently coordinated than all of human civilization by multiple orders of magnitude.
God is a living miracle! You are the miracle! When will you finally realize this?