Creation, Space, and Time: The Insufficiency of the Observable Universe for the Origin of Living Nature. Part 1

Abstract

A recently proposed two-vector model relates the first-created world (Gen. 1) and the observable universe as two states of the space-time continuum. According to the model, living nature and other objects created by God in the original space-time, as a result of the Fall and the «curse of the ground» (Gen. 3, 17), ended up in the altered space-time of the fallen world. The model makes a counterintuitive prediction that the observable universe is insufficient for the emergence of life. This four-part article tests this prediction to confirm or refute the model. The scientific literature on three key events on the path to the origin of life and the corresponding scientific problems is analyzed. The Fine-tuning of the Universe (Part 1): How did the values of fundamental physical constants end up in extremely narrow ranges in which only living organisms can exist, although nothing in physics prevents them from being different? The Origin of Life (Part 2): How did the genetic information necessary for the functioning of the first «minimal» cell arise? The Origin of Complex Multicellular Organisms (Part 3): How did complex life forms emerge, given the inadequacy of Darwinian natural selection and genetic drift as mechanisms for the origin of complex organisms from simple ones? It is shown that in many scientific publications, scientists explain these phenomena using the multiverse hypothesis. They assume that in the infinitely ensemble of universes, there inevitably exist worlds like ours in which all three events occurred by chance, although their probability in a single universe is vanishingly small. Thus, the data presented in these works and the conclusions drawn by scientists confirm the prediction of the two-vector model about the insufficiency of the observable world for the origin of living nature and, therefore, confirm the model (Part 4). The model’s implication that in the observable universe there were no mechanisms capable of setting up the physical constants to values favorable for life, building a genetic program for the first living cell, and creating complex organisms, makes a contribution to our understanding of the world, and has practical significance. The search for such mechanisms, although scientifically legitimate, is nevertheless doomed to failure.