Creation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

they say), of which 500,000 years in which it was hot as Hades, that
leaves 4.5 billion years. If you subtract 3.8 billion years as the earliest
period in which life could have existed, you are left by 700,000 years to
get from soup to Bacteria, which is impossible!
Ancient life existed at Isua [Greenland], and perhaps elsewhere
on earth as early as 3.8 billion years ago … This seems like an
awfully short period of time for the first life to evolve. 1
The other finding from this investigation gave origin of life scientists
another surprise: Earth’s first life, while morphologically simple, was
biochemically complex. This serves a blow to Abiogenesis advocates,
since, their model assumes that early life forms were very simple.
Commenting on these results, J. William Schopf (origin of life
investigator) wrote: “No one had foreseen that the beginning of life
occurred so astonishingly early.” He later adds:
No one has publicly disagreed with my interpretations ... but
some would prefer I were mistaken, since they (and I, too) would
prefer a simple evolutionary story, one that told us these oldest
fossil organisms were capable only of primitive ways of living and
that advanced metabolic lifestyles evolved much later. But the
evidence seems strong, and what one might “prefer” shouldn’t
matter. 2
Another unexpected discovery made recently, is that life appeared
suddenly on Earth. Marine biologist John Hayes reviewed this discovery
for the prestigious science magazine Nature. He acknowledged that life
must have begun “with breathtaking rapidity.” 3 This goes directly
against the Abiogenesis model which assumes a gradual evolving of life.
1 Peter Ward & Donald Brownlee: Rare Earth
2 J. William Schopf: The Cradle of Life Page 98
3 John M Hayes, “The earliest memories of life on Earth” Nature 384
(1996) p.21
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