Scientists Admit Natural Selection Can't Explain Life's Start - FAS2625

Rethinking chemical evolution, life chemistry, and the origin of life, this Faith & Science episode explores the limits of natural selection and the mystery of biological information in living cells. What if natural selection only explains survival, not the arrival of new genetic information? In this conversation, Kaysie Vokurka and creation scientist Dr John Ashton unpack why classic chemical evolution models struggle to explain life’s origin, from the Miller-Urey experiment to complex biopolymers and metabolic pathways. They explore how life’s chemistry depends on precise, interdependent reaction networks and meaningful biological information that must be edited and selected, like letters forming real words in a sentence. Drawing on research, examples from E. coli, and the story of biochemist Dean Kenyon’s change of mind, they argue that undirected chemistry is not enough to account for the first living cell. If you’re interested in the science behind creation, intelligent design...