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Impossible

TED MAHAFFEY

Montoursville

It is impossible for life to have originated by naturalistic means from non-living matter.

The existence of the simplest living cell requires all its parts are present and in the right order at the same time. Since a living cell must be complete to exist, it could not evolve through gradual steps.

In 2010, scientists claimed to create a synthetic cell in a laboratory, but this cell was not built from scratch with non-living matter. One simple bacterium was changed into another related form of bacterium in a new type of genetic engineering.

It took almost 15 years and cost $40 million to alter this single cell. After seeing the time, precise engineering, and investment involved in altering a single cell, why can’t scientists see the impossibility of life originating by the random chance, non-living matter scenario?

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