Is Water the Solution that explains How life began

Is Water the Solution that explains How Life began?

Although water is portrayed by many evolutionists as the solution to (or star player in) how life came to be, in truth, water spontaneously breaks down complex molecules that are used by living organisms: such as proteins and DNA -- along with its components (or nucleotides).* This means that the water of yesteryear (or the distant past) almost certainly did so as well, and that water -- in and of itself -- could not have created life anymore than fuel, in and of itself could create a car or an airplane: even in millions of years.

In this regard, amino acids have been called the building blocks of life, and when two or more of them are joined together they are called a peptide, and the bond that holds them together is called a "peptide bond." When many of them are linked together they are termed a polypeptide, and if they are ordered correctly, they become a protein. And in the below referenced article on peptide bonds we are told that "a peptide bond can be broken by ... hydrolysis" ** (just by) ... "the adding of water" ... and that the "... bonds in proteins are metastable, meaning that in the presence of water they will break spontaneously." ¹

This means the "primordial soup," or "warm little pond" where Darwin and many of his followers speculate life began could not have contained water, since water will "hydrolyze" or break down any complex molecules back into their basic parts as soon as they form. In fact, Dr. Charles McCombs states that water causes "a total hindrance to protein, DNA/RNA, and polysaccharide formation..." ² This is because the water in a living cell is surrounded by a membrane, and "behaves very differently" ³than water outside a cell. In fact, the "water" in a cell is not water but a blend of water, amino acids, and many other chemicals called cytosol, and where they, together with their DNA program regulate what goes in and out of the membrane, in order to create and maintain a favorable environment for DNA, RNA and protein synthesis, and life itself to exist.

* When two amino acids come together they are called a peptide; when two nucleic acids come together they are called a nucleotide.
** According to the American Heritage Dictionary of Science, hydrolysis is "a process of decomposition in which a compound is broken down and changed into other compounds by ... (absorbing, or being diluted with) water. For example, in food digestion, the food absorbs water and is broken down by hydrolysis. The same dictionary says that to hydrolyze means "to decompose by hydrolysis ..." and that organic molecules such as "Nucleic acids, proteins, and polysaccharides contain many bonds that hydrolyze ... In this regard, the (combining) word hydro- simply means "of or having to do with water."

1. Peptide Bond at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peptide_bond.
2. Chemistry by Chance: a formula for non-life by Dr. Charles McCombs: Acts & Fact, Feb. 2009, pp. 30-31: located online at the www.icr.org website.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytosol#Water

See also: Scientific Evidence that God Created Life, www.earthage.org/which_is_more_scientific.htm and the link below
by Duane Gish, on why Life apart from Intelligence is Impossible, at www.icr.org/article/few-reasons-origin-life-impossible