The complexity of life is truly amazing. The way cells reproduce requires much more than just factories and workers, but their existence should cause one to contemplate whether or not life could arise by natural processes alone. Or if God’s design and creation offers a better explanation.

We already know that cells eliminate RNA splicing errors, but, according to this article from Sci Tech Daily, now scientists have a better idea how this complicated process happens, and understanding this process gives us the opportunity to question how it all came about in the first place.

Proteins are the basic building blocks of the cell and are made up of long chains of amino acids. They have many functions, including development, repair and growth. But they must be assembled into meaningful parts in order to be useful. One just can’t heat up or shake a jar of chemicals and get a working protein, and that’s why the Urey-Miller experiment failed as an origin-of-life experiment. It produced the basic building blocks of life, but none of it was useful.

This article explains that, before proteins can be assembled, other molecules are needed. Get this. Much more complicated proteins are necessary prior to protein production. A process known as splicing must occur, and the splicing is done by an incredibly complex molecular machine called a spliceosome. One of its main functions is to catalyze the removal of non-coding sequences (cut) and reassemble other sequences to form mature mRNA, but it does so by constantly rearranging itself for each reaction.  These reactions are crucial, and if they aren’t performed at the right time and right order, the cell dies. So how did all this become established before protein production occurs? Evolutionists must invent plausible scenarios that are unprovable… but how is plausibility defined, and what scenario is truly plausible? I’d suggest it depends on one’s own biases and what one is willing to believe.

Anyway, two important control factors found in the spliceosome are complex machines called GPATCH1 and DHX35. GPATCH1 is a protein coding gene that plays a role in splicing, and the DHX35 is a protein that unwinds RNA, acts as a sensor, recognizes viruses, and activates an immune response.

The article does a fine job explaining the complexity, but I want to describe it in manageable terms. Protein machines can identify and reject defects, remove them from the sequence, disassemble, recycle, and reassemble the molecules into proteins for future use.

All this happens based on blueprints. Instructions are encoded in the DNA, transcribed, then translated into proteins. These are vital processes and must be extremely precise and accurate to prevent disease or death.

Evolutionarily speaking, how did all this come about naturally, step-by-step? It’s not like we observe nature experimenting on these molecules today. Nor can we look under a microscope, add proteins and watch them complete useful, functional processes until they join together, build a cell and zap themselves to life at the right time, begin metabolic processes, create an immune system and reproduce before they disintegrate. All this seems impossible. But if one denies God, then such a scenario is the only “plausible” alternative. Time becomes the hero because it requires no evidence. Just belief.

Even though nothing like this has ever been observed, highly educated scientists continue to perform origin-of-life research, hoping to one day explain all this away. But even if they could create life in a lab, using all the right ingredients and assembling it in the right order at the right time, this would only demonstrate one thing- that intelligence is needed to create life.

And this is why God is the best explanation for the origin of life. If life can only be created by intelligence, then it stands to reason that an intelligent being (God) created life on earth, just as the Bible says. In order to refute this, one must observe life arising via natural processes, but this is never observed.