Articles
A Squashed Mosquito is Dead
Forever
By Tom Wagner
Have you ever squashed a mosquito? Interestingly, the squashing
of a mosquito may help us understand what makes life possible and
what makes the spontaneous generation of life impossible.
When a mosquito is slapped, what happens? Obviously it's shape changes
and it dies. But what makes it die? All of the thousands of sophisticated
chemicals which make up its body are still there, relatively unaltered.
At the moment of impact its cellular components are still intact
including the all-important DNA. So why is it now dead?
Prior to being smashed, the mosquito was a highly organized system
with much organized information. But when hit, it became disordered,
causing critical information in the design of its body to become
jumbled. There arose confusion in the finely tuned co-ordination
of chemistry (including the chemicals involved in its overall structure)
which culminated in an overall breakdown, resulting in death. And
you thought you just slapped it!
For another
example, lets say you were to take 100 million bacteria and concentrate
them in the bottom of a test tube. Now if you were
to physically lyse (break open) the membrane of each of the cells,
the insides would spill out, forming a concentrated mixture of incredibly
complex "life-giving" chemicals. Yet, even though all of
the right 'stuff' for life is there, not even one of the 100 million
critters will come back to life, nor would any new creature arise.
If the already complex chemistry of minuscule bacteria cannot reorganize
itself back into a living cell, even when concentrated in the test
tube environment under carefully controlled conditions, then how
could life have evolved in the first place, from basically uncomplicated
chemicals in conditions FAR less appropriate than this experimental
situation? It simply could never happen!
As with the mosquito, in order for life to exist the chemistry must
be specifically organized and controlled in time and as well as space.
For a cell to live, it must be surrounded by a sophisticated membrane
that allows only certain chemicals in and out, according to when
they are needed, not just at any time. Inside the cell, the proportions
of an element or compound must be just right, otherwise the whole
system may be thrown off balance and the organism will die. Furthermore,
the entire living mechanism must be controlled by the fantastically
complex genetic structure of DNA.
All this means
that, in order for the chemistry to have come together in the first
place, the individual atoms must have been purposefully
and simultaneously organized by a creator having the knowledge and
power to do such a thing. It could not possibly have happened by
the right chemicals just "coming together".
It is Jesus, the Son of the Living God, who deserves our praise
for the awesome things He has accomplished in this creation of His.
There is no other plausible explanation for the complex life we find
all around us. Yet this only plausible explanation is the only one
not allowed to be discussed in our public schools!
Tom Wagner is a nature photographer and science teacher living in
Iowa who writes on the evidence for creation. This article was first
published in Creation magazine, www.AnswersInGenesis.org
Search for the Truth http://www.searchforthetruth.org/i_9.htm
Karl’s comment: This article exposed the “Wish Upon a Star” mentality of evolutionists. The closing is an important point about why Christians should leave the public schools.
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