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...In each case random movements of mole- effective replicator. This principle has not
cules in a fluid are spontaneously replaced yet been described in detail or demon-
by a highly ordered behavior. Prigogine, strated, but it is anticipated, and given
Eigen, and others have suggested that a names such as chemical evolution and self-
similar sort of self-organization may be in- organization of matter. The existence of the
trinsic in organic chemistry and can poten- principle is taken for granted in the philoso-
tially account for the highly complex phy of dialectical materialism, as applied to
macromolecules essential for living sys- the origin of life by Alexander Oparin. 9
tems. But such analogies have scant rele-
All this situation clearly demonstrates that
vance to the origin-of-life question. A major
evolution is a dogma that is against emprical
reason is that they fail to distinguish be-
science and the origin of living beings can only
tween order and complexity... Regularity or
be explained by the intervention of a supernat-
order cannot serve to store the large
ural power. That supernatural power is the cre-
amount of information required by living
ation of God, who created the entire universe
systems. A highly irregular, but specified,
from nothing. Science has proven that evolution
structure is required rather than an ordered
is still impossible as far as thermodynamics is
structure. This is a serious flaw in the anal-
concerned and the existence of life has no ex-
ogy offered. There is no apparent connec-
planation but Creation.
tion between the kind of spontaneous
ordering that occurs from energy flow
through such systems and the work re-
quired to build aperiodic information-inten-
sive macromolecules like DNA and protein. 7
In fact even Prigogine himself has accepted
that the theories he has produced for the molec-
ular level do not apply to living systems-for in-
stance, a living cell:
The problem of biological order involves
the transition from the molecular activity to
the supermolecular order of the cell. This 1. Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy: A New World View, New York,
problem is far from being solved. 8 Viking Press, 1980, p.6
2. J. H. Rush, The Dawn of Life, New York, Signet, 1962, p
So why do evolutionists continue to believe in
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scenarios such as the "self organization of mat- 3. Roger Lewin, "A Downward Slope to Greater
ter", which have no scientific foundation? Why Diversity", Science, vol. 217, 24.9.1982, p. 1239
are they so determined to reject the intelligence 4. George P. Stravropoulos, "The Frontiers and Limits of
and planning that so clearly can be seen in liv- Science", American Scientist, vol. 65, November-
ing systems? The answer is that they have a December 1977, p.674
dogmatic faith in materialism and they believe 5. Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy: A New World View, p.55
6. For further info, see: Stephen C. Meyer, "The Origin of
that matter has some mysterious power to cre-
Life and the Death of Materialism", The Intercollegiate
ate life. A professor of chemistry from New York
Review, 32, No. 2, Spring 1996
University and DNA expert, Robert Shapiro, ex- 7. Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley & Roger L.
plains this belief of evolutionists about the Olsen, The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current
"self-organization of matter" and the materialist Theories, 4. edition, Dallas, 1992. chapter 9, p. 134
dogma lying at its heart as follows: 8. Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers, Order Out of Chaos,
New York, Bantam Books, 1984, p. 175
Another evolutionary principle is therefore 9. Robert Shapiro, Origins: A Sceptics Guide to the
needed to take us across the gap from mix- Creation of Life on Earth, Summit Books, New York:
tures of simple natural chemicals to the first 1986, p. 207
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