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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

amphiphilic substances have an earthly origin. 89
Darwinist researchers maintain that these com-
pounds may be the first components of the cell mem-
brane, and that when the right compounds emerged,
then double-layered membranes could have arisen spon-
taneously. They assume that after primordial membranes
formed, they became double-layered membranes consist-
ing of phospholipids. These evolutionary models consist
of gross simplifications. Darwinist researchers claim that
the primordial membranes of the first cells consisted of
aromatic hydrocarbons combined with octanoic and
nonanoic acids.
These views are deceptive, however. Octanoic and
nonanoic acids can form double layers only when present
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in very high concentrations. This is incompatible with
the primordial environment scenarios hypothesized by
Darwinists. In order for octanoic and nonanoic acids to
form double-layered membranes, therefore, they need
powerful environmental conditions, at specific pH lev-
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els. If the solute's pH level departs from neutral values,
then those double-layered membranes remain unstable.
The temperature of the solution is also of enormous
importance for the stability of double-layered mem-
branes, and the stability of octanoic and nonanoic dou-
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ble layers also depends on the substances with the right
molecular structure. For example, only of nonanol is
included at a particular stage, then nonanoic acid double-
layered membranes become stable. 93
That these exacting prerequisites arrived by means of

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