Leading Origin of Life Researcher: "Genetic Information More or Less Came out of Nowhere"

By Casey Luskin

Earlier this summer, science reporter Susan Mazur reported about the Altenberg 16 conference, in which she wrote that there are "hundreds of other evolutionary scientists (non-Creationists) who contend that natural selection is politics, not science, and that we are in a quagmire because of staggering commercial investment in a Darwinian industry built on an inadequate theory." Many Darwinists, needless to say, did not like Mazur’s reporting, and they attacked her harshly. They probably are also not going to like Mazur’s latest article, where she interviews University of California, Santa Cruz origin of life researcher David Deamer. When asking Deamer about the "origin of the gene," he replied, "I think genetic information more or less came out of nowhere by chance assemblages of short polymers."

Might I suggest that intelligent design is a better explanation?

Stephen C. Meyer argues in his chapter, "DNA and the Origin of Life: Information, Specification, and Explanation," in Darwinism, Design and Public Education that, "since experience affirms mind or intelligent design as a necessary condition (and necessary cause) of information, … the specified and complex arrangement of nucleotide sequences—the information—in DNA implies the past action of an intelligence." (pgs. 265-266) Meyer's forthcoming book, due out next year, will deal extensively with information, DNA, and the scientific evidence supporting intelligent design in the origin of life.