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Crick ends the book with a treatise explaining away free will as attributable to certain areas of the brain.51 Once again, he is clearly denying what the ordinary person would consider logical, based upon his or her own experience of life. He must find a material explanation in the physical brain to maintain his atheism. He would not dare for a moment to consider the possibility of a nonmaterial explanation, even though many scientists who are not theists but agnostics freely admit the overwhelming evidence that thoughts are not material.

Wherever and whenever life is found, it is incredibly complex. This certainly applies to cyanobacterial photosynthetic life that supposedly were some of the simplest and very first organic life forms to evolve from inorganic nonlife.1

Cardiff University recently reported, “Until now, scientists broadly accepted animals first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago.”2 However, evolutionists have unearthed evidence, they maintain, of a much earlier ecosystem.

A decade ago, fossils were uncovered in the Franceville Basin, Central Africa, suggesting creatures similar to sea anemones had evolved at a time evolutionists thought was impossible: 2.1 billion years ago.3 That is 1.5 billion years older than was assumed. Science writer Sarah Knapton stated, “Flying saucer-like creatures nearly seven inches in length, resembling jellyfish, appeared to be living in the region 1.5 billion years earlier than they were thought to exist.”4

These enigmatic creatures supposedly appeared because “there was a period of violent underwater volcanic activity in the region as parts of ancient Africa and South America – known as the Congo and São Francisco cratons [stable sections of Earth’s continental crust].”4 Evolutionist Dr. Ernest Chi Fru thinks this undersea volcanic activity may have resulted in the creation of “a nutrient-rich shallow marine inland sea”5 that was cut off from the ancient global ocean.

“This created a localised environment where cyanobacterial photosynthesis was abundant for an extended period of time, leading to the oxygenation of local seawater and the generation of a large food resource.”

“This would have provided sufficient energy to promote increase in body size and greater complex behaviour observed in primitive simple animal-like life forms such as those found in the fossils from this period.”5

These are suppositions stacked on suppositions, a hallmark of evolutionism. For example, it’s highly unlikely that a shallow marine inland sea could be isolated from the global ocean. But they need to make these types of claims to fit their evolutionary story.

Furthermore, they claim these series of purely hypothetical events set the stage “for Earth’s earliest biospheric experimentation towards microbiological complexity about 2100 million years ago.”6

In their Precambrian Research paper, Fru et al. stated,

Although the link between environmental oxygen threshold levels and the role of genetic innovation in the transition to complex multicellular life is debated, oxygen availability and genetic innovation, in tandem with nutrient levels, likely worked in synergy to drive biological diversification towards greater complexity, given that low environmental oxygen levels also select for small size individuals and higher levels large size organisms.6 (emphasis added)

The evolution of complex life forms is both vague and subjective. As this discovery demonstrates, evolutionists don’t know which kinds of life evolved or when: “Scientists are still working to pin down which types of life evolved when, and there’s no guarantee that all evolutionary jumps would’ve stuck.”1

Genesis 1 is clear. God created life on this planet in all its varieties thousands of years ago.

References

1. Nield, D. Complex Life on Earth May be 1.5bn Years Older Than We Thought. ScienceAlert. Posted on sciencealert.com July 31, 2024.
2. Complex Life on Earth Began around 1.5 Billion Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, New Study Claims. Cardiff University News. Posted on cardiff.ac.uk July 31, 2024.
3. Sherwin, F. Sea Anemone Fossils. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org April 17, 2023.
4. Knapton, S. Fossils Suggest Complex Life on Earth 1.5bn Years Older Than Thought. MSN. Posted on msn.com July 29, 2024.
5. News Staff. Complex Organisms First Appeared 2.1 Billion Years Ago, Paleontologists Say. Sci.News. Posted on sci.news July 31, 2024.
6. Fru, E. et al. Hydrothermal Seawater Eutrophication Triggered Local Macrobiological Experimentation in the 2100 Ma Paleoproterozoic Francevillian Sub-basin. Precambrian Research. 409 (107453).

https://www.icr.org/article/puzzling-fossils-at-unlikely-time/

What I sensed without being able to phrase it has since been phrased in the simplicity of an axiom: ‘Men cannot organize the world for himself without God; without God man can only organize the world against Man.’ The gas ovens of Buchenwald and the Communist execution cellars exist first within our minds.

Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961, former Soviet spy, author of Witness, his views on the vast difference between Communism and God.

Of course, the ordinary person would firmly oppose any attempt to describe himself and his life in such a manner. He would consider it not only astonishing but ridiculous. He knows that he is not just a lump of molecules. He is a thinking person, and jealous of his own identity, one who makes choices that he carefully weighs, who experiences joys, sorrows, hopes, ambitions, fears, remorse, and regrets that are very real.

In his Friday sermon on October 25, 2024, at the [New York] MAS Staten Island Center, Imam Tareq Allan discussed the virtues of Jihad and the importance of understanding its values. He highlighted how, in times of tribulation, good and evil can be misrepresented, with genocide portrayed as "good" while Jihad is characterized as "terrorism." Imam Allan emphasized the necessity of having a burning desire for Jihad in one's heart and being willing to sacrifice for the sake of Allah. Even in non-Islamic countries, where armed struggle is not be applicable according to Islamic law, he urged Muslims to continue the struggle by spreading Islam.

He also stated that anyone who dies without having fought for Allah's cause, or at least having the intention to do so, risks dying in "one of the valleys of hypocrisy." Finally, he reminded the congregation of Allah's promise that Islam will ultimately spread to every corner of the Earth and prevail.

Tareq Allan: "It is important for us to remind ourselves of these values of jihad. Why? Because during times of tribulations, many times the truth can get distorted, evil can be portrayed as good, good can be portrayed as evil, genocide is good, jihad and defending your land is terrorism. So it is important to remind ourselves of these values, even though armed struggle, by consensus of the scholars, does not apply to a Muslim living in a non-Muslim country.

"You are living safely today here in America, who is to say that your situation will not change in the next ten years, that you will not be living in a circumstance or situation where jihad will apply to you.

"The Prophet said that Allah will spread this matter of Islam to all the corners of the Earth, and Allah will not leave a single house except [for which] this religion will enter it, through honoring those who deserve honor through Islam or humiliating those who deserve humiliation through disbelief. So Allah made this promise that this religion will reign supreme over all religions."

https://www.memri.org/tv/imam-tareq-allan-nyc-fire-jihad-america-armed-struggle

Read Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule (along with James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins), in a book he subtitles, The Scientific Search for the Soul. His atheism, not an honest scientific inquiry, has already predetermined what his “search” will reveal. He isn’t really searching for the soul as the ordinary person would conceive it. That would be unthinkable for him as an atheist. He is searching for some mechanical, physical, or chemical “thing” that will enable him to change the minds of those foolish enough to hold the view of a nonmaterial soul. This has always been and still is the universal belief of mankind. And that pre-bias cannot but hinder his research as a scientist by preventing him from considering valuable evidence that leads in a direction he will not go.