Those “formidable entropic and informational barriers”

 "A recent popular science article begins with the words, “A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science’s most profound mysteries – how did life first emerge from non-living matter on early Earth?” 

As is so typical in such articles, the author simply assumes that lifedid naturally arise from nonliving chemicals. 

It is almost as if he is attempting to frame the debate by excluding from the outset even the possibility of supernatural creation. Instead of asking how life naturally arose, scientists (and thinking people everywhere) would do well to ask the question: Did life naturally arise, or was it created?

As described in both popular and technical papers, systems biology professor Robert G. Endres attempted to estimate the requirements for the spontaneous generation of a hypothetical protocell from a primordial soup on early Earth. 

*He concluded that such a protocell, with an information content of about a billion bits, could, in principle, spontaneously arise from primordial soup in 500 million years—but only if a small fraction of the interactions leading to the protocell are consistently preserved over “vast stretches of time.” Endres acknowledged the “formidable entropic and informational barriers” to the formation of such a protocell. 

In spite of these barriers, Endres stated that “abiotic evolution, however slow and strange, remains a viable (if mind-bending) explanation.” 

Q: But if abiotic (or chemical) evolution really is viable, why is it “strange” and “mind-bending”?

Apparently, Endres is not terribly confident in life’s ability to naturally arise from nonliving chemicals, because he throws out “directed panspermia” as a fallback option. Directed panspermia, the idea that intelligent extraterrestrials in the distant past “seeded” Earth with life, is nothing new; it was suggested by molecular biologist Francis Crick, chemist Leslie Orgel, and astronomers Carl Sagan and Iosif Shklovskii in the mid-1960s and early 1970s.

A little thought, however, quickly reveals that directed panspermia doesn’t really explain life’s origin. 

Q: If life on Earth were seeded here by intelligent extraterrestrials from outer space, how did the extraterrestrials themselves come to be? 

Claiming that they, too, are the result of abiogenesis on their planet only pushes the problem further back in time, as does claiming that they are the result of another directed panspermia experiment performed by an even older civilization.

But in 2011, Scientific American, despite its strong pro-evolution bias, had already conceded this point, acknowledging that scientists “don’t have a clue how life began.” 

A supernatural creator is the only rational explanation for our existence. That Creator is also the Savior of the world and its coming King: “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4)” 

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Entropy Simplified: Things break down with TIME. 

So in other words what they are pointing out is that over the eons of TIME required for evolution to take place (assuming life could even start randomly at all on it's own--and that evolutionary forces could proceed) Entropy would set in and reverse/destroy any progress with TIME.

Simply Put: Entropy would counter evolutionary forces on a grand scale of time.
--But--
Q: If Creation were to be true, then why does the Creation break down in a perfectly Designed/Created system from the beginning?
A: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 

Romans 5:22/8:22

Most of their Theories are WRONG

 And the heavens shall praise Thy wonders, O LORD: 
Psalm 89:5

"Fact number five presents our next paradox. suggested that something fundamental was wrong with our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. 
Computer simulations consistently show that dark matter should clump together most densely at the center of galaxies, creating what scientists call a cuspy distribution. 
Observations of actual galaxies, including our own Milky Way, 
show that dark matter appears to be distributed much more evenly than simulations predict. Instead of the sharp mountain peak, we see something more like a gentle hill. The dark matter seems to form what's called a core, a region of relatively the galaxy density at constant center. 

 

For decades, astronomers could only find about a dozen satellite galaxies around the Milky Way. Where simulations predicted thousands, reality offered only a handful. 

This became known as the missing satellites problem and it

But just when scientists thought they were beginning to understand this discrepancy, the universe threw them another curveball.

Advanced surveys using more sensitive instruments began discovering satellite galaxies that had been too faint to detect before.

This should have solved the missing satellites problem, but instead it created an entirely new puzzle.....we now appear to have too many satellite galaxies. 

Recent estimates suggest there may be over 500 small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, more than twice what the most optimistic simulations predict. 

*We've gone from a shortage to an overwhelming abundance, and our models can't explain either situation satisfactorily. This dramatic reversal tells us something profound about the limitations of our current theories. when your predictions can be wrong by factors of 10 or more and then swing wildly in the opposite direction.

As new data arrives, it suggests that the fundamental assumptions underlying those predictions might need serious reconsideration.

Let's delve deeper into the strange behavior of dark matter itself, assuming it exists as our models propose.

Imagine a mountain with very steep sides rising to a sharp peak.

Scientists have proposed various mechanisms that might transform the predictor spy distributions into the observed caused cue. But none of these solutions work convincingly across all types of galaxies. 

The mismatch between predicted and observed dark matter distributions becomes more pronounced in smaller galaxies. 

The very places where we should be able to test our theories most precisely in small nearby galaxies where we can measure everything in great detail are exactly where our theories perform most poorly."

 SleepyPhysicist

Who is Pulling those Strings?

The heavens are Thine.... 

Psalm 88:11

"To explain what we observe, scientists have had to propose that our more mass than all the visible matter combined. 

So when you look up at the Milky Way on a clear dark night, you're seeing less than
17th of what's actually there. 

The galaxy is embedded in a massive invisible halo of something they call dark matter. 

The rest is completely invisible, detectable only through its gravitational effects on the stars we can see. 

*But here's where our story takes an even stranger turn. 

--Despite decades of searching with increasingly sophisticated instruments, we have never directly detected a single particle of this dark matter. Not in laboratories deep underground, not in particle accelerators, not in space-based detectors. 

It's as if we're explaining the motion of a puppet by invoking invisible strings that we can neither see nor touch, yet which must somehow be there, controlling everything. Our journey into cosmic impossibility deepens when we examine the neighborhood around our galaxy." 

SleepyPhysicist

He adorned the heavens with the Impossible

 By His Spirit He adorned the heavens.... 

Job 26:13

"They found that stars throughout much of our galaxy from the inner regions all the way out to the very edges are all moving at roughly the same speed. 

Not just similar speeds, mind you, but are naturally impossibly consistent speeds. 

It's as if every runner in a race, regardless of their starting position on

the track, finished at exactly the same time. This observation known as the flat rotation curve represents fact number one in our collection of cosmic impossibilities.

The rotation curve is simply a graph showing how fast objects orbit at different distances from the galactic center. 

For our solar system, this curve would start high for Mercury and steadily decline as we move outward.

For the Milky Way, it starts high and then stays high, flat as a tabletop across hundreds of thousands of light years. 

Let me help you understand just how strange this is with a more familiar analogy. 

Imagine you're at an ice skating rink and there's a massive person standing at the center. Skaters holding onto ropes of different lengths

are being spun around this central figure. The skater with the shortest rope closest to the center will naturally spin the fastest. The skater with the longest rope farthest away will move more slowly because they have to cover more ground in their larger circle and they're receiving less of the central spinner's energy. But what astronomers found in the Milky Way is equivalent to discovering that all the skaters, regardless of their rope length, are moving at exactly the same speed. The outer skaters somehow have access to the same energy as the inner ones, despite being much farther from the source.

It's not just unexpected, it's physically impossible under the laws of motion we've spent centuries confirming and refining." 

SleepyPhysicist

Time & Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Psalm 90:4

 

 ".....Rovelli turned next to the idea that time flows in only one direction, from past to future. 

Unlike general relativity, quantum mechanics, and particle physics, thermodynamics embeds a direction of time. 

Its second law states that the total entropy, or disorder, in an isolated system never decreases over time. 

Yet this doesn’t mean that our conventional notion of time is on any firmer grounding. Entropy, or disorder, is subjective: “Order is in the eye of the person who looks.” 

The equations for quantum gravity he’s written down suggest three things, he said, about what “clocks measure.” 

First, there’s a minimal amount of time—its units are not infinitely small. 

Second, since a clock, like every object, is quantum, it can be in a superposition of time readings. “You cannot say between this event and this event is a certain amount of time, because, as always in quantum mechanics, there could be a probability distribution of time passing.” 

Which means that, third, in quantum gravity, you can have “a local notion of a sequence of events, which is a minimal notion of time, and that’s the only thing that remains,” Rovelli said. 

Events aren’t ordered in a line “but are confused and connected” to each other without “a preferred time variable—anything can work as a variable.” 

Light traces a cone, or consecutively larger circles, in four-dimensional spacetime like ripples on a pond that grow larger as they travel. 

No information can cross the bounds of the light cone because that would require information to travel faster than the speed of light. “In spacetime, the past is whatever is inside our past light-cone,” Rovelli said, ... “So it’s whatever can affect us. The future is this opposite thing,” ... “So in between the past and the future, there isn’t just a single line—there’s a huge amount of time.” 

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God's Global Phosphorus Delivery System

Where wast thou 

when I laid the foundations of the earth? 

declare, if thou hast understanding. 

Job 38:4

"Based on the profusion of life in every habitat we know here on earth, whether in oceanic, polar, desert, rainforest, or montane ecosystems, ... somehow “solved” this supply chain problem. 

Indeed, vast coal seams and fossil fuels speak of even richer ecosystems in the past. 

Fossils show that each species was well supplied with phosphorus for its ATP, membranes, and DNA. New research indicates surprising ways that our planet distributes phosphorus where it is needed and conserves existing supplies.

“The role of volcanoes and orogenic processes in keeping phosphorus plentiful throughout Earth’s history, deserves elaboration by design theorists.”

Though phosphorus is only a trace component of most lavas its effect must match supply to demand. Observations show that volcanic ash can promote life. 

This year, news from the University of Hawaii announced that “Kilauea volcano’s ash prompted [the] largest open ocean phytoplankton bloom.” Study co-author David Karl included phosphorus as one of the essential elements delivered by the volcano:

“The waters in the open ocean of the Pacific are nutrient depleted

and the addition of volcanic ash, especially iron in the ash, and to a lesser extent other trace elements and possibly phosphate, can stimulate the growth of marine phytoplankton, especially the so-called nitrogen-fixing microbes that can growth in the absence of additional nitrogen,” said Karl."

They mentioned two delivery mechanisms. 

One was lava flowing into the ocean, warming the deep waters and

making them more buoyant. 

Another mechanism is wind.

"The nutrient-rich deep water rising to the sunlit surface stimulated phytoplankton growth, resulting in an extensive plume of microbes offshore of Hawai’i Island. Volcanic ash can be transported much farther distances by winds, especially during explosive eruptions that inject materials high into the atmosphere."

The wind “supply chain” had reached 1,200 miles to the west of Hawaii in this instance. If a small volcano like Kilauea could produce the largest known phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific, then surely larger volcanoes throughout earth’s history have had the potential to distribute phosphorus worldwide.
Wind also delivers phosphorus in fine dust particles high up in the atmosphere. 

Q: Would anyone imagine that dust from the Sahara could supply phosphorus to the Amazon rainforest? 

That was the surprising conclusion of a NASA report from 2015.

Researchers monitored dust plumes from the Sahara with the Calypso satellite, supplementing the orbital images of the plume with ground studies in the Amazon Basin.
Q: But where did the Sahara get its phosphorus? 

Dr. Hongbin Yu from Goddard Space Flight Center explains that it has been stored within dead microbes that are “remnant in Saharan sands from part of the desert’s past as a lake bed.”

"This trans-continental journey of dust is important because of what
is in the dust, Yu said. Specifically the dust picked up from the Bodélé Depression in Chad, an ancient lake bed where rock minerals composed of dead microorganisms are loaded with phosphorus. Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for plant proteins and growth, which the Amazon rain forest depends on in order to flourish."

The Sahara now shares its bounty with the world,

transporting phosphorus from one of the planet’s most desolate places to one of its most fertile.
Of the 182 million tons of Sahara dust lofted by wind annually, only a fraction reaches Amazonia. But remarkably, Amazonia’s shortfall is replenished almost perfectly through this intercontinental aerial delivery mechanism." 

Science&CultureToday

Creation Does " Justly Induce"

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:20

"The 

--vastness, beauty, orderliness, of the heavenly bodies, 

--the excellent structure of animals and plants; 

--and the other phenomena of nature 

justly induce an intelligent and unprejudiced observer to conclude a supremely powerful, just, and good author."
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691), father of experimental chemisty

Argentine Dinosaurs Undermine Evolutionary Timeline

 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind... 

Genesis 1:25

"Recent articles in Science indicate that the origin of dinosaurs is unknown, and that there are many questions about ‘early’ dinosaurs from the late Triassic. Michael Balter admits:

“But paleontologists are equally concerned with puzzling out how these mighty beasts got their start. Who were their ancestors? … Tracing the origins of the earliest dinosaurs has been a major challenge for paleontologists because there are no uncontested fossils from their earliest days on Earth.”

A new discovery in northwest Argentina, where other late Triassic dinosaurs have been found, suggests weaknesses in existing theories.
The new discovery is of a 1-m-long T. rex-like dinosaur named Eodromaeus murphi, which has added more confusion to the origin of dinosaurs.

Another dinosaur previously found in the area, Eoraptor, was considered one of the earliest theropods, but has now been named as the ancestor of the sauropods! This conclusion is not sitting well with a lot of evolutionists.
This field area is significant.
It contains the supposed representatives of all three major lines of dinosaurs: theropods, sauropods and ornithischians.
This new round of reclassification pushes the origin of dinosaurs back as far as the mid Triassic. Though no fossils of the ancestral dinosaur have been found, paleontologists believe it to have been bipedal. This would require the evolutionary sequence to move from quadruped reptiles to a biped dinosaur ancestor, and then back to the later quadruped dinosaurs. There is no explanation for such changes.
Paleontologists have also found other vertebrates, mainly reptiles, in the rocks of northwest Argentina. Dinosaurs represent only about 10% of the vertebrate fossils. Furthermore, the dinosaur fossils appear, disappear, and then reappear in successive stratigraphic layers. Paleontologists explain this by claiming that the dinosaurs did not outcompete the reptiles but only filled empty niches.

This follows the recent idea of cooperative adaptation rather than the old ‘survival of the fittest’ imagery of evolution.
Fossils in the late Triassic rocks of northwest Argentina are the ‘oldest’ remains yet found on Pangea. The dinosaurs became dominant at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary, and reptiles largely disappeared. This suggests that early dinosaur evolution was geographically restricted for about 15 million years, another problem for paleontologists. 

Q: Why did they not migrate sooner to other parts of Pangea?  

If nothing else, this demonstrates that parts of the fossil record remain undiscovered."
CMI

Electricity & YOU

 "Electricity itself can be defined as the movement or current of small charged particles, usually electrons. Some substances, such as metals and various types of liquids, allow the movement of (or conduct) charged particles better than others. 

The harnessing of electricity has enabled us to develop devices which cause electrical energy to be changed into some other form of energy—e.g. heat (cooking), light (electric bulbs), motion (electric motors).

Man was not the first to harness electricity and put it to work. 

When we look at the human body, for example, especially the

nervous system, we should conclude that the designer of the human body must have had an intricate knowledge of electronics and must have known how to harness electrical energy to change it into other forms of energy. When we consider the scale of the operation (i.e. at the atomic and microscopic levels), we can only wonder at God’s profound wisdom in creation.

The nervous system is composed of two parts: the central nervous system, which is the control center comprising the brain and the spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, which consists of nerves connecting other parts of the body to the control center . Via a combination of electrical and chemical processes, the nervous system is used to control the functioning of the entire human body.

The basic building block of the nervous system is the nerve cell, called a neuron. The brain itself consists primarily of neurons. Under a microscope a neuron looks like an octopus with many tentacles. A neuron can transmit an electrical impulse to the next neuron. The network of electrical impulses enables us to receive information from the physical world and then send it to our brains, and vice versa. 

Without the neuron circuits our bodies would completely shut down, like turning off the power supply to a city.

Scientists inherently acknowledge that the nervous system is built according to an electrical design. The scientific literature describing the nervous system is replete with references to electrical theory and electrical devices that man uses today. 

Such references include technical words like batteries, transducers, motors, pumps, 

calculators, transmitters, electrochemical potential, circuitry, binary system, current, resistance, voltage, capacitance, charge. The difficulty of describing the nervous system without resorting to such language implies the Creator’s understanding prior to man’s electrical inventions.

It is difficult to understand how anyone can believe that the nervous system, particularly the brain, could have been produced by evolutionary randomness and selection." 

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I will praise Thee; 

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: 

Psalm 139:14