EXPLAINING THE SURVIVAL OF LIFE BUT NOT THE ARRIVAL OF LIFE
VERN BENDER
Random, undirected processes didn’t build our universe; an Event Originator did. First, a blueprint is drawn up with fine-tuned parameters. Then the binary code is written for the directed evolvement of a universe with a built-in life process. Wrap it all up into a triggering event, Ignite it, and the current event is off and running.
A designing intelligence created our universe. It was designed with a purpose in mind. Darwinists claim that an undirected process of natural selection and random mutation produced the intricate designed-like structures in living systems. Yes, and Batman and Cleopatra are still hiding in your microwave.
HOW RANDOM DO YOU THINK THE ABOVE STRUCTURE IS?
It is sad but true that most scientists continue to belabor the fallacy that codes can emerge from mindless processes.
Information drives the development of life. But what is the source of that information? An undirected process can’t produce useful information, let alone trigger life. Useful information doesn’t just organize itself. Intelligence begets knowledge; nothing else can do that. Complex cell machines can’t be randomly produced by chance. Randomness can’t make valuable functions on any level.
Molecular machines transcribe DNA into knowledge. The most complex molecular machines are made of proteins and are found in cells. These include ‘motor proteins.’ Examples are myosin (which does muscle contraction), kinesin (which moves molecules from the nucleus along microtubules), and dynein (which produces the beating of motile cilia and flagella).
Protein-based molecular motors harness the chemical-free energy released by the hydrolysis of ATP to perform mechanical work. In terms of energetic efficiency, this type of motor can be superior to currently available human-made motors. A critical difference between molecular motors and macroscopic motors is that molecular motors operate in the thermal bath, an environment in which the fluctuations due to thermal noise are significant.
HOW DID RANDOMNESS GROW THESE MOTORS WITHIN YOU?
Some examples of biologically critical molecular motors that reside inside of your body:
polymerization motors:
Actin polymerization generates forces and can be used for propulsion. ATP is used.
Dynamin is responsible for the separation of clathrin buds from the plasma membrane. GTP is used.
Rotary motors:
FoF1-ATP synthase family of proteins converts the chemical energy in ATP to the electrochemical potential energy of a proton gradient across a membrane or the other way around. The catalysis of the chemical reaction and the movement of protons are coupled to each other via the mechanical rotation of parts of the complex. This is involved in ATP synthesis in the mitochondria and chloroplasts and the pumping of protons across the vacuolar membrane.[3]
The bacterial flagellum responsible for the swimming and tumbling of E. coli and other bacteria acts as a rigid propeller powered by a rotary motor. This motor is driven by the flow of protons across a membrane, possibly using a similar mechanism to that found in the Fo motor in ATP synthase.
Molecular dynamics simulation of a synthetic molecular motor composed of three molecules in a nanopore (outer diameter 6.7 nm) at 250 K.[4]
Viral DNA packaging motors inject viral genomic DNA into capsids as part of their replication cycle, packing it very tightly.[8] Several models have been put forward to explain how the protein generates the force required to drive the DNA into the capsid; for a review, see [1]. An alternative proposal is that, in contrast with all other biological motors, the force is not generated directly by the protein but by the DNA itself.[9] In this model, ATP hydrolysis is used to drive protein conformational changes that alternatively dehydrate and rehydrate the DNA, cyclically going it from B-DNA to A-DNA and back again. A-DNA is 23% shorter than B-DNA, and the DNA shrink/expand cycle is coupled to a protein-DNA grip/release cycle to generate the forward motion that propels DNA into the capsid.
Cytoskeletal motors:
Myosins are responsible for muscle contraction, intracellular cargo transport, and producing cellular tension.
Enzymatic motors: The enzymes below have been shown to diffuse faster in the presence of their catalytic substrates, known as enhanced diffusion. They also have been shown to move directionally in a gradient of their substrates, known as chemotaxis. Their mechanisms of diffusion and chemotaxis are still debated. Possible tools include local and global thermal effects, phoresis, or conformational changes.
YOU’VE EXPLAINED THE SURVIVAL OF LIFE BUT NOT THE ARRIVAL OF LIFE.
