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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
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Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 13)
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 21:34:13 EDT
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>     THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE
>
>    C.  NEW RESEARCH SHOWS THAT  THE  REQUIREMENTS  FOR  LIFE  ARE  SO
>        COMPLEX  THAT CHANCE AND EVEN BILLIONS OF YEARS CANNOT EXPLAIN
>        IT.
>
>       25.  If the earth, early in its alleged evolution,  HAD  OXYGEN
>            in  its  atmosphere,  the  chemicals needed for life would
>            have been removed by oxidation. But if there had  been  NO
>            OXYGEN,  then  there would have been no ozone in the upper
>            atmosphere. Without  this  ozone  life  would  be  quickly
>            destroyed  by  the  sun's ultraviolet radiation [a,b]. The
>            only way for both ozone and life to be here is for both to
>            come   into  existence  simultaneously.  In  other  words,
>            Creation!

The error here is that life would be destroyed by the sun's ultraviolet
radiation.  In fact, it may be this very ultraviolet radiation hastened
the chemical reactions necessary for the initial stages of life.  It's 
even possible, I suppose, that these processes are 'no longer in operation
today' due to the ultraviolet sheilding of the ozone layer.  When conditions
such as those described above were simulated in the laboratory, as
Stanley Miller and Harold Urey did in 1951, and as many other chemists
have done since then, an enormous variety of organic molecules are
formed spontaneously: sugars, the amino acids that are the building
blocks of protiens, and the nucleotide bases that are the building
blocks of DNA.  And, these amino acids spontaneously assemble themselves
into short proteins, which aggregate into spherical polymers that almost
look like cells, and split into smaller spheres when they get too large.

See:
M. Calvin, "Chemical Evolution"
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1969)
R. E. Dickerson, in Scientific American (Sept. 1978)

Keith Doyle
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