Good Grief; No, Cells Are Not Born from Raindrops

Evolutionists think up stupid
ideas when they don’t have to face
knowledgeable Darwin skeptics

If you are a scientist, try this exercise. Dream up the dumbest thing you can imagine. Then write a paper with equations and jargon to make it sound credible, and get an artist to illustrate it. Maybe you would come up with something like this.

Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it  (15 Oct 2024, The Conversation). Aman Agrawal should know better. As a veteran origin-of-lifer at the University of Chicago, he cannot possibly believe that the raindrops that keep falling on his head inspired him to come up with this idea. We’ve run across many inadequate theories for the origin of life for over two decades, like the fatbubble theory (3 Sept 2004), but this one sets a new low.

In our recently published research in the journal Science Advances, my colleagues from the University of Chicago and the University of Houston and I explored a fascinating possibility that rainwater played a crucial role in stabilizing early cells, paving the way for life’s complexity.

One thing is for sure. Among Agrawal’s “colleagues” he left out Dr James Tour, a structural chemist, professor and inventor at Rice University who challenged ten of the leading origin-of-lifers last year to answer any one of five simple questions about how life could have started by material processes. Every one of them went silent—every one,* including Jack Szostak, one of the “colleagues” that Agrawal boasts about in this paper.

Not one of these could answer Dr Tour’s challenge. Click image for the story.

*One guy, Lee Cronin, invited Dr Tour to a dinner meeting at Harvard to give a presentation, but then muzzled him from speaking any further as Cronin gave his response using “assembly theory”—a short-lived speculation that could not even stand against challenges by other evolutionists (Evolution News). Cronin did NOT answer any of the five questions in Dr Tour’s challenge. Now, Dr Tour has given Cronin a three-year challenge to demonstrate the legitimacy of assembly theory (Evolution News).

Speaking of life’s complexity, Aman knows about that all too well. Here’s what this moyboy attributes to “evolution” (chemical evolution):

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Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex. Inside cells are small compartments called organelles that perform specific functions essential for the cell’s survival and operation. For instance, the nucleus stores genetic material, and mitochondria produce energy.

Another essential part of a cell is the membrane that encloses it. Proteins embedded on the surface of the membrane control the movement of substances in and out of the cell. This sophisticated membrane structure allowed for the complexity of life as we know it. But how did the earliest, simplest cells hold it all together before elaborate membrane structures evolved?

Then he launches into his spiel, name-dropping Oparin and Stanley Miller into his rainwater brew, announcing that “Rain, we believe, may have paved the way for the first cells.” Another origin-of-lifer (James Shapiro) compared this to expecting a golf ball to play a course by itself perfectly using earthquakes, winds, tornadoes and floods (see 15 Feb 2007).

Dr James Tour

All the questions in Dr James Tour’s challenge remain unanswered, along with every other hurdle that we have reported on since 2000: the origin of the genetic code, the origin of metabolism and molecular machines, the improbability of proteins and DNA, and much, much more. Agrawal wouldn’t get away with this kind of nonsense for a day if Darwin skeptics with PhDs like James Tour and Stephen Meyer (author of Signature in the Cell) were not summarily censored from the journals.

This is not even good grief. It is bad agony. Just thinking how far science has fallen into fantasyland since Charley wrote his “abstract” of a godless material world turning warm little ponds into cells and bears into whales is enough to bring on stomach pains from a severe case of LOL.

For relief, watch this new video from Dr Michael Behe’s “Secrets of the Cell” series. Evolve these machines, Aman.