{"id":89434,"date":"2025-08-15T13:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=89434"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:55:59","slug":"evolutions-impossibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/evolutions-impossibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution&#8217;s Impossibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>by Jerry Blount<\/p>\n<p>Can an accidental life form without intellect, will, perception of environment, education, or instinct accomplish the following in one generation?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Begin: <\/strong>Having all the elements of life in one place at one time! Consider a dead animal: It won&#8217;t just come to life. It can&#8217;t be revived!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Survive:<\/strong> How long would it live? Seconds? Minutes? Years? Consider that the combined efforts of the human race for many thousands of years have not been able to eliminate death. How did survival accidentally happen?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eat:<\/strong> What would a fragile life form find to eat? Remember, this is an alien planet. Life has not existed yet. There are no organic remains to eat.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reproduce:<\/strong> \u00a0An incredibly complicated procedure! Could you be taken blindfolded to an alien world with no history of life (nothing to eat), with all your intellect, education, your will to survive, knowledge of hunger, and will to reproduce intact? Could you then manage to live long enough to produce any kind of life, let alone reproduce your own &#8220;kind&#8221;? We aren&#8217;t asking, can you go into a laboratory and produce an amoeba! We are asking you to produce your own kind without help in one generation!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The heavens declare the glory of God! (Psalm 19:1).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jerry Blount Can an accidental life form without intellect, will, perception of environment, education, or instinct accomplish the following in one generation? Begin: Having all the elements of life in one place at one time! Consider a dead animal: It won&#8217;t just come to life. It can&#8217;t be revived! Survive: How long would it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-89434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55976,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/dont-blame-the-monkeys\/","url_meta":{"origin":89434,"position":0},"title":"Don\u2019t Blame the Monkeys!","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jerry Blount Don't blame the apes when men act like animals!\u00a0 For several generations now, our society has gone to great lengths to teach our children that they were born in the image of\u00a0an ape, i.e. descended from an ape.\u00a0 After indoctrinating folks carefully that they are animals, why\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/MonkeyBusiness-300x195.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":42457,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/can-teens-make-an-impact\/","url_meta":{"origin":89434,"position":1},"title":"Can Teens Make an Impact?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"by Ronald D. 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