Creation Science Rebuttals

By Greg Neyman

© Old Earth Ministries

    This question was published in Dr. John's Q&A by John Morris in December 2000.  The premise behind this question is that evolution requires something that can create life from non-life.  Many feel that this jump-start comes from raw energy.  If you put the right combinations of materials together, along with the sun's energy, you have a possible catalyst for life.

     Morris chooses to compare this prebiotic soup answer to the building of a house in Oklahoma.  Although all the building materials were delivered to the site, they sat in the Oklahoma sunshine for a summer.  However, despite their being in abundant sunshine, they did not assemble themselves into a house.

    This comparison is ridiculous.  Sunshine cannot move bricks...but it can move objects on a molecular level.  A liquid, when it heats up, is quite active.  Comparing a liquid to solid objects with much greater mass is not a fair comparison.  However, fair comparisons are not typically found in young earth creationist arguments.

Dr. John's Q&A #144, published on the web at https://www.icr.org/article/can-raw-energy-create-order

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