Creation, Space, and Time: The Insufficiency of the Observable Universe For the Origin of Living Nature. Part 2

Abstract

The two-vector model relates the biblical world of creation (Gen. 1) and the observable universe as two states of the space-time continuum. Created by God in the original spacetime, living nature, due to the Fall and the «curse of the ground» (Gen. 3:17), ended up in the altered space-time of the fallen world. The model predicts that the observable world is insufficient for the emergence of life. This prediction is tested in the second part of the article to confirm or refute the model. The scientific literature on the origin of life is analyzed. It is shown that the processes of storing, copying, transmitting, and implementing hereditary information underlie the vital activity of organisms and are the defining features distinguishing the living from the nonliving. Therefore, the problem of the origin of life comes down not only and not so much to revealing the origin of the genetic information carriers — DNA and RNA molecules — but to explaining the emergence of functionally meaningful information as such; that is, a genetic program consisting of a sequence of «symbols» — nucleotides in a DNA or RNA molecule, necessary for the functioning of the first «minimal» cell. Since nonliving nature does not write programs, and the probability of spontaneous synthesis of a functionally significant nucleotide sequence in the universe during its existence is vanishingly small, the only naturalistic explanation of the origin of biological information put forward by scientists in scientific papers is the multiverse hypothesis. It is assumed that in an infinitely large ensemble of universes, worlds similar to ours inevitably exist, where random processes led to the synthesis of the genome of the simplest living system. Scientific data and conclusions of scientists presented in these papers confirm the prediction of the two-vector model about the insufficiency of the observable universe for the emergence of a living cell and, therefore, confirm the model.