Life Cannot Create Itself
From Non-living Matter

by James Tour – Synthetic Organic Scientist

Darwin admitted in 1859: “Science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life.” Today, synthetic organic chemistry confirms that life cannot create itself from non-living matter, leaving evolution without a scientifically, verifiable starting point.

Chemical Evolution Cross-examined

Atomic bomb explosions destroy life and matter.
It’s unproven conjecture that a “Big Bang” cosmic explosion creates something from nothing.

Without chemical evolution being proven as absolute fact, any theory of self-creating biological evolution lacks scientific substance.

Explosions witnessed on Planet Earth rip matter apart, strewing shredded fragments of rubble, helter-skelter in disorganized trash heaps. The atomic bomb’s devastation changed world history. So the inevitable question:

“If the atom can be split by humans, can the sciences of physics and mathematics devise methodologies that could explain reversing the process so as to successfully create atoms from invisible particles?”

The atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima did not organize new matter.

“Big Bangers” speculate somewhere in the deep-time past, within the amorphous haze of a subatomic world of “quantum foam,” a cataclysmic explosion of a hot, dense, minuscule “dot,” no bigger than a period at the end of a sentence, activated a chain reaction that allegedly self-created every star and planet in the cosmos. Unproven theory assigned the minuscule particle the task of giving mass to enough matter to eventually decorate our universe with today’s stars and planets.

When and where did the mysterious tiny “dot” originate?
If an explosion split atoms, could a “big bang” create elements?
If atomic elements did not exist, what triggered the explosion?

Tied to an interpretation of quantum mechanics, the “Big Bang” hypothesis portrays a magic moment having occurred spontaneously 13.82 billion years before the present. Side-stepping any attempt to picture conditions prior to the conjectured explosion, the ancient date is viewed as a kick-off point for the formation of protons, neutrons, and electrons, which launched an inflation that allegedly created the atoms for all matter composing our universe.

So, when, where, and how did the minuscule “dot” itself originate?
Did cosmic space exist before the dot?
If not, what existed if there was nothing?

The Solar System displays a visual symphony of mathematical balance. Suspended in space, without cables or foundations, Earth’s “Pale Blue Dot” moves in three directions simultaneously—spinning clockwise on its axis, to the east; orbiting the sun in a precisely predictable circuit; and floating in cosmic space in sync with the other System components.

Did laws of physics pre-exist the “Big Bang?” If not then, when?
How did a single, exploding “tiny dot,” produce millions of galaxies?
What carves the paths and powers floating chunks of space matter?

The “Unreachable Something”

“Something preceded the Big Bang, and that ‘something’ is unreachable to our science…We don’t know what caused the Big Bang…going back to the Big Bang is outside the reach of any civilization.” Amir D. Aczel, Why Science Does Not Disprove God (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2014) 249-251.

“When you squeeze the entire universe into an infinitesimally small, but stupendously dense package, at a certain point, our laws of physics simply break down. They just don’t make sense anymore.” Brian Greene, Prof of mathematics and physics, Columbia University, as quoted by Carl Warner, Living Fossils, Evolution: the Grand Experiment, (Green Forest, AR: New Leaf Press, 2008) 4.

“There is little direct evidence that inflation actually took place…It is a beautiful idea that fits snugly with standard cosmology…We don’t know for sure if inflation happened…In a way, we are still as confused as ever about how the universe began.” Peter Coles, “Boomtime,” New Scientist, March 3, 2007.

A ninety-year-old William Shatner experienced a deep emotional reaction following his brief visit to the edge of space, October 13, 2021. The legendary “Captain Kirk” shed a few tears after being exposed to the “ugly, palpable blackness” of space compared to the “beauty” but sadly deteriorating condition of Planet Earth.

“The Universe is beyond…interesting, beyond… mesmerizing. It’s the total of non-knowledge of that black. But in that moment, the sun shining in my face, all it was, was palpable blackness–ugly, evil, ominous blackness.

“…I was hit in the face with that, and then I was hit in the face with the beauty, and the gentleness and the nurturing of the Earth. And I saw death and I saw life–for me as well as for the Earth. And I felt such sadness, empathy, sorrow for the Earth. The Earth is less bright than it used to be…

“…I know the death and destruction that’s going on; one species, millions of species are disappearing. The beauty of the Earth that fostered all this gorgeous stuff, this intricate gorgeousness of life following life is disappearing, and it will disappear–at least we, as witnesses will disappear.

“And I wept for that too. And when I landed, I was so filled with that emotion of life and death of everything and the sorrow for the planet, I was overwhelmed and it took me 15-20 minutes before I could recapture myself.”