Just what is a primitive life form? Are we talking small? Because if we are talking about the smallest, tiniest microorganism, then we are talking about a “nano-bio-technology” that modern day technicians are trying very hard to emulate and can‘t even come close. Nothing man-made can begin to approach the complexity and efficiency of even the simplest microorganism. And we should note at this point that what the world’s most talented and capable scientists, technicians and researchers have accomplished in reducing the size of technology, has been done with epic amounts of intelligence being applied.
Just what is a primitive life form? Are we talking simple? Though some organisms appear simpler than others, there is not a single living organism, micro or otherwise, that can accurately be described as “simple“. After all, any life form that could be classified as simple, ought to be fairly simple to figure out. I mean shouldn’t a reasonable amount of research reveal what it is that makes a “simple” microorganism alive in the first place? Yet, with all of the honest research that’s been done, and all of the intelligence that has been applied, there is still no answer to the question, “What is life?” And how can this be so when the intelligence being applied to understand them supposedly arose from them in the first place? But then how did consciousness arise from mere matter? It is indeed quite an exercise in faith to believe that all of this has come about by itself.
What do qualified researchers say about so-called primitive life forms? In 2003, Peter Kennelly, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry at Virginia Tech, was given a $400,000 grant to continue his ongoing investigations into the process of protein phosphorylation in primitive microorganisms. Dr. Kennelly is therefore well qualified to describe the activities of some of the simplest known microorganisms as follows:
Survival in a dynamic external environment demands the ability to monitor and respond to a wide range of internal and external variables, or signals. The binding of a signal to its receptor initiates a sequence or “cascade” of molecular events inside the cell that modulate relevant metabolic, nuclear, motile, or other processes. The transmission of an often extra cellular receptor binding event into the interior of the cell and its translation into a catalytic or other response is called signal transduction. To be consistently successful in nature’s continual competition for scarce resources, such responses must be rapid and efficient. Efficiency demands that the response be comprehensive in scope to ensure against wastage of either materials or energy. This task is rendered challengingly complex by the cacophony of competing and contradictory signals that may bombard the cell at any single instant.
Nature creates sophisticated microprocessors from the simple organic components that reside within cells in essentially the same way as man builds computers with organic materials. (quoted from Virginia Tech’s biochemistry website)
Nature creates? Doesn’t that require intelligence? Doesn’t that require forethought? Wouldn’t that be true especially in light of the fact that what has been created far exceeds what we can do, or even figure out, with intelligence?
And how does something so “simple” do all of that sophisticated micro processing so well? How did the very first life form learn to do all of that and then replicate itself so that the process could continue? What did the first life form eat, if it was the first life form? If it were not perfectly equipped to do all of that and more, how did it survive to become us? Questions, questions…..maybe it is simpler than we think (read Genesis chapter #1).