What Would It Prove?

The claims started long ago. The claims were meaningless, and turned out to be false. Yet, some people let them shake their faith. I was just a youngster, and Lyndon Johnson was President, when a couple of scientists claimed that they had created life. Further investigation proved their claim to be so exaggerated that one might have been tempted to call it an outright lie. They had managed to blast some soup they had mixed up with enough electricity to form a few random amino acids. That was all. But to hear the atheists crow you would have thought that they had produced a human baby without the use of either egg or sperm.

Last week a few papers again carried the claim that life had been created in a laboratory. Reading further, it turns out that a single cell form of life, brewer’s yeast, was coaxed into becoming a multicelled form of life. So, once again, the supposed great proof of the general theory of evolution, turns out to be so exaggerated as to be nearly a bold faced lie.

Suppose that someday they do it, what will it prove? If after a hundred years of trying, with trillions of our tax dollars spent, some scientist really does manage to produce life from non-life, what will it prove? Perhaps all they will have proven, if they ever do it, is that it takes intelligence and effort to do it. They will have proven, in fact their efforts already have proven, that it could not have happened on its own. Left to itself, non-living things do not become living things. We know that. But those who are desperate to disbelieve refuse to face the fact.

If they ever do it, they will have proven nothing we did not already know. But perhaps, as Aaron Dicus, professor of physics at Tennessee Tech, predicted, "Secure is life from mortal mind; God holds the germ within his hand. Though men may search they cannot find, for God alone does understand."