The evidence actually shows that everything had to come into existence at the same time, almost instantaneous, or it wouldn't exist or persist.
From the various interdependencies of solar and global cycles to those of animals and the environment, body parts on other body parts, cellular systems on themselves, we can see evidence for how things can’t have formed incrementally. No direct, gradual route leads to their production, since if one part is missing, the whole system is useless or the interdependent parts would be lost, before their function could become realised and sustained.
Cycles speak of rapid implementation (and of organisation, design and a designer). They have no natural beginning or end.
So long development times would stop them forming and even if they didn’t, 60 billion years isn’t mathematically enough time.
The Earth needs things from "space" to be "just so" to work as is needed.
Heat from the sun, gravity from the moon, rotation for seasons and weather, all had to be in place, as they are, for life to start. Gradual change would have precluded life.
Stars come from supernovas and yet supernovas come from stars.
Secular models explain that stars form due to the force of the supernova compressing gas so that gravity then takes over, but SUPERNOVAs were once stars. You see it takes the death of one star to create another. So how did the first star form?
Scientists have calculated the universe has to be exactly as it is to support life.
THE ANTHROPIC COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE by two scientists, Barrow and Tipler, shows that the structure of the entire cosmos seems to follow carefully a principle; to make life of our kind possible on a planet like ours. The point made by these two astronomers is that the universe appears to have been created to accommodate mankind. They state that life would not exist anywhere unless the universe were constructed exactly as is, with those galaxies as they are. This entire expanding ball, the universe in which we exist, must be exactly this kind of ball or we would not be here.
Another astronomer, Hugh Ross of Canada, a devout Christian, employs the same kind of data as above in lectures to other scientists. He mentions that if the expansion of the universe were one quintillionth of one percent different, life of any kind would be impossible anywhere in the universe. Such fine-tuning, he implies, looks deliberate.
The Water Cycle couldn't come about without the other global cycles.
The Water Cycle is dependant on the other global cycles and is essential for advanced life on earth.
The Global (slow) Carbon Cycle couldn't come about without the other global cycles.
The Global Carbon Cycle is dependant on the other global cycles and is essential for advanced life on earth.
The (fast) Carbon Cycle couldn't come about without the other global cycles.
The Carbon is dependant on the other global cycles and is essential for advanced life on earth.
The Nitrogen Cycle couldn't come about without the other global cycles.
The Nitrogen Cycle is dependant on the other global cycles and is essential for advanced life on earth.
The Phosphorus Cycle couldn't come about without the other global cycles.
The Phosphorus Cycle is dependant on the other global cycles and is essential for advanced life on earth.
The Iron Cycle couldn't come about without the other global cycles.
The Iron Cycle is dependant on the other global cycles and is essential for advanced life on earth.
The Trace Mineral Cycle couldn't come about without the other global cycles.
The Trace Mineral Cycle is dependant on the other global cycles and is essential for advanced life on earth.
Microorganisms are needed for the energy cycles and vice versa.
Energy cycles are necessary to generate the building blocks of life. The building blocks are necessary to make the microorganisms that drive the energy cycles.
Fig trees need wasps and vice versa.
The fig needs the Wasp to pollinate it and the Wasp needs the fig tree to reproduce. Only the Wasp can pollinate the fig tree, so which came first?
Male digger wasps need Fly Orchids and vice versa.
the Fly Orchid has a 2 day pollination window. The fly orchid arises because its inflorescence resembles a fly, although it is dependent on wasps and bees for pollination. The plants use scent to attract male wasps and bees which pollinate the flowers as they attempt to mate with the flower. The scent released by the flowers mimic female sexual pheromones. How does a flower know how to mimic the female pheromones of the bee?
Pollen plants needs the pollinating insects and vice versa.
What came first the Pollen or the pollinators? Neither, they had to both exist at the same time or they neither would still be around.
DNA needs protein and vice versa.
It takes DNA to make proteins. But it takes proteins to make DNA. Protein machines are needed to read the DNA, but these protein machines are themselves encoded on the DNA.
the laws of chemistry preclude a long time. DNA cannot last very long outside a cell, fatty acids for cell membranes would be ruined by calcium ions in the ocean.
important biochemicals would destroy each other.
ATP energy needs enzymes and vice versa.
18 It takes ATP energy to make enzymes. But it takes enzymes to make ATP. What came first ?
RNA needs metabolic pathways and vice versa.
The classic RNA first, or metabolism first conundrum is easily solved: Both had to come together. RNA is necessary to store information and used as catalysts in some reactions, but metabolic pathways are necessary to fix carbon, generate energy, and synthesize the basic building blocks of life.
RNA needs enzymes and vice versa.
It takes RNA to make enzymes. It takes enzymes to make RNA. At least 18 complex enzymes are needed to make RNA. These enzymes require mRNA, tRNA, rRNA in the biosynthesis pathway of transcription and translation, to be made.
Amino acids need protein and vice versa.
Amino acids: Amino acids are required to make proteins. Proteins are required to make Amino acids.
A minimum of 112 enzymes are required to synthesize the 20 (+2) amino acids used in proteins. These proteins are required in the central metabolic pathways to synthesize amino acids.
Cell membranes need the inner workings of cells and vice versa.
Phospholipids: Cell membranes are necessary to protect the inner workings of the cell. The cell machinery is necessary to synthesize cell membranes
At least 74 enzymes are required for phospholipid synthesis in prokaryotes. The cell membrane is required to protect these metabolic systems and pathways to synthesize proteins.
Lipid membranes need membrane proteins and vice versa.
Lipid - Membrane - Membrane protein interdependence
The Lipid membrane would be useless without membrane proteins but how could membrane proteins have emerged in the absence of functional membranes? A living cell requires a protective lipid membrane, and a huge number of various types of life-essential complex membrane-embedded protein channels, ion pumps, ion exchangers, transporters, importers, translocons, and translocases, symporters, and antiporters, ligands & membrane signal receptors, control the intracellular levels of each element. Etc. Lipid membrane and Membrane protein synthesis occur inside living Cells, protected by the Cell membrane, and a homeostatic milieu. Membrane protein synthesis depends on the ordered organized import of the basic building blocks to make them. What emerged first, Cell membranes and membrane proteins, or their synthesis, if its synthesis depends on both?
Cell software needs cell hardware and vice versa.
Information stored in genes is necessary to make genes. Genes are necessary for there to be the software of the cell.
DNA and RNA quality control and repair mechanisms need DNA and RNA and vice versa.
Error check and repair
There are elaborate surveillance proteins, that do DNA and RNA quality control, and repair. RNA and DNA are required to make these error-check and repair mechanisms.
ATP synthesis need protein/RNA manufacturing machines and vie versa.
The molecular machine called ATP synthase needs the protein and RNA manufacturing machines that rely on ATP to produce the ATP synthase machine?
Information in DNA needs DNA itself and vice versa.
Did the nucleotides or the DNA or the RNA or the AMINO ACIDS or the PROTEIN come first? The architecture of the cell, including the cell wall, nucleus, sub-cellular compartments and a myriad of molecular machines, did not originate from DNA, but was created separately and alongside DNA. Neither can exist without the other. Thus, a large, yet immeasurable, part of biological information resides in living organisms outside DNA.
The DNA blue print needs to be read by the complex machinery of living cells. Which themselves require DNA
We have encoded information, with systems developed to decode them, by evolution at the same time? This is a co-dependency and wasn't known in Darwin's day.
Blood needs the heart and vice versa.
Did the blood or the heart come first - if it was blood then how did it circulate to all parts of the body? If it was the heart then what was the heart pumping.
The heart needs its valves and vice versa.
The heart is made of many intricate systems like the aortic and mitral valves how did all these evolve step by step without the organism dying?
Lungs need blood and vice versa.
What about the lungs, when did these come into the scene to provide oxygen to the blood?
Muscles, need nerves, and they need a complex control system (the brain).
None of these could have come about, except by doing so at the same time.
Bones need ligaments and ligaments tendons and vice versa.
None of these could have come about, except by doing so at the same time. Nothing about intermediate states is helpful to survival.
Eyes, eye lids, tear ducts, optic nerves need each other and vice versa.
It's the most over used example, but for a reason. Even the explanation of incremental steps, fail to recognise the need for a functioning, eating breathing, pooing and re-producing "rest of the body" to grow such a beauty.
Placenta and babies.
The placenta is formed of both maternal and foetal tissues supporting nutritional and respiratory functions of the baby via intimate vascular contact. Evolutionary descriptions of placental origin and its profound structures are found wanting, but a design explanation fits the scientific observations far better.
An "almost" bird wouldn't survive.
If it had feathers, preening gland, hollow bones, direct respiration, warm blood, swivel joints, forward facing elbow.
but no tail. It couldn't fly and the previous stuff would be of no help and so disappear with natural selection
A Bombardier beetle, would blow up, dissolve or be eaten.
There are no intermediatory steps possible. It needs a combustion material, a catalyst and an exhaust chamber. Else it's innards would be eaten away inside by the combustible material, or it would be blown up by the explosion with no chamber or it wouldn't make "pops" (no catalyst) and be eaten by a predator.
Migrating butterflies wouldn't be here.
They do a 200 mile migration, dying on their way. Their grandchildren return! Without this programmed at a beginning, this could not have worked for their survival to today.
Which came first the chickens or the egg?
Neither! The chicken or the egg on their own are completely useless. It was the Chicken and the Rooster both had to coexist at the same time. The chicken egg alone is one of the most ingenious mechanisms. When a chick hatches, it happens in step by step order where there's no room for error. How could this be explained by gradual evolutionary process? There'd be no chickens alive from early non-viable "trial eggs", to have further attempts.
Caterpillars becoming butterflies couldn't happen by trial and error.
Why did the caterpillar become a butterfly? At what point in evolution did a caterpillar decide through random trial and error to attach itself to a branch, REMOVE ITS SKIN, harden, and become a gorgeous butterfly?
Plant root systems, stems, branches and leaves, can't have come about separately one by one.
What came first the root system of the plant or the stem?
Each new discovery about the complexity of plants amazes researchers. Researchers have discovered that plant root growth occurs in pulses in a "complicated ballet" with other processes. Such a complex dance needs a master choreographer—the Creator God.
Dragonflies breather air but come from larvae that breathes water, no sequence of evolution can explain this.
In fact they have 3 different stages of development, each independent and different to the other. No such process could happen by chance. It's like the designer was leaving hints this wasn't happen chance!
Simply correctly ordering 206 items by trial and error is to use a mathematical term "absurd", and so considered impossible and not worth suggesting as a possibility.
It's mathematically impossible to correctly order 206 items, one try a second, within 10billion years and that's just their order and just 206 things. 1 in 10 with 388 zeros after it, trials needed to correctly position 206 items.
Average human has 75 trillion cells. That's just one human.
Time doesn't help. It's still impossible.
It's mathematically impossible for random chemical reactions to create life with 30 billion years.
Stuff would "evaporate" before coming together.
The half lives of many of the building blocks required for life are too short to allow for the accumulations of the compounds.
There's not even enough "stuff" or concentrations of stuff for chance formations on this scale.
There's not even enough building blocks lying around for random creation.