CAN LIFE EMERGE FROM NON-LIVING MATTER?
No one has ever observed the creation of life from non-living matter, or spontaneous generation. Even given ideal laboratory conditions, scientists haven’t been able to create life from non-living matter. Life has been found only to come from life. This has been seen so consistently that it’s called the Law of Biogenesis. Even if scientists could demonstrate spontaneous generation, it’s unlikely that life on earth began this way. Two basic components of life, proteins and DNA, have characteristics that make their spontaneous generation unlikely. Proteins couldn’t have evolved if the early earth had oxygen in its atmosphere, because the parts that make up proteins, amino acids, can’t join in the presence of oxygen. There had to be oxygen in the atmosphere, however. Without oxygen, there could be no ozone in the upper atmosphere and without the ozone layer, the sun’s ultraviolet radiation would quickly destroy life. How then, can evolution explain both ozone and life? Scientists have als
