[quote=whizzball1] Life cannot come from non-life. It is a scientific law which has never been disproved. All experiments trying to show that life could have come from non-life, first of all, came up with left-handed and right-handed amino acids, while it's only one type to make proteins. Besides that, if life were to somehow form when lightning struck and created uncountable amino acids that formed into uncountable proteins that all just formed together to make a cell, the leftover amino acids would be poisonous to the organism. Besides that, the environment it was in would also be poisonous to the new organism, for certain atmospheric reasons. Even worse, the experiments were specifically fixed to create these amino acids, and the environment fixed was different from the environment according to the theory.Cambrian Explosion: Before the Cambrian explosion, we only see rare scattered marine organisms throughout the fossil record. Suddenly, in the layers of the Cambrian Explosion, we get an explosion of new, complex life, in a far evolutionary stage from what we see before the explosion. As it seems, evolution had a sudden growth spurt during this short period. After the Cambrian Explosion, we go back to rare fossils that don't seem to show an evolutionary process. The Cambrian Explosion could be far better explained by a worldwide flood mass-killing sea, air, and land creatures, burying them in sediments quickly with the rushing water and then fossilising them just as quickly. [/quote] Life comes from non life literally every day. Cambrian explosion: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/4/l_034_02.html http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VIIB1cCambrian.shtml What you're doing is literally the exact same as throwing out most of the pieces of a puzzle, putting the rest into place, and then claiming that the puzzle can't possibly form what it says it does on the box because by looking at these pieces, it's not possible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/extinction_events Your flood is not only impossible, but is irrelevant. [quote=whizzball1] An article I read in accompaniment with one lecture had this analogy:Imagine 18 people standing in line. The amount of possible combinations for them to be arranged is 18! (18 factorial), which is 6402373705728000 (6.4 quadrillion). If the people switched to a different combination every minute, it would take them 12.18 billion years to try them all. Now, there are 18 amino acids that form one of the basic proteins. If it takes 12.18 billion years to try the combinations, one per , then how much more to make all the other proteins and arrange them into the right shapes for all the different parts of a cell? [/quote] That implies a false scenario. In order for that statement to be correct, there would have to be one set of 18 in existence, rather than the countless individual ones that would form a more accurate scenario.