Nitrogen is an element that is essential for life. Without nitrogen there is no life. Nitrogen is used to make the most basic chemical ‘building blocks’ of life including genes (DNA) and proteins. We cannot have life without DNA or without proteins, and both of these cannot exist without nitrogen. The problem for evolutionists is that nitrogen exists in the atmosphere as a gas in what is called a ‘diatomic molecule’ where there are two atoms of nitrogen for each molecule of nitrogen gas. The chemical formula of nitrogen gas is N2, where the ‘N’ stands for nitrogen. So in the atmosphere nitrogen exists in this form of nitrogen gas. Why should we care about that? It is because life cannot use nitrogen in this form!
Yes, nitrogen is essential for life and the form of nitrogen in the atmosphere cannot be use for life or by life. Nitrogen in the atmosphere must complete a process called ‘fixation’ before it can be used in life. One of the common molecules in life after it has been ‘fixed’ is ammonia (the chemical formula of ammonia is NH3). On earth, this process of nitrogen fixation is done by bacteria that can ‘fix’ the nitrogen that all of life is dependent on. Evolutionists are not able to explain how this came to be. Chemical evolution (controversy number 10) cannot happen without nitrogen fixation because the molecules that make up life as we know it uses nitrogen in the ‘fixed’ form, not in the nitrogen gas form.
Current research to try to figure this problem out has focused on studies of the DNA of different life forms. The goal is to develop a sequence of events of how this complex biochemical pathway that changes the molecular structure of nitrogen in our atmosphere into a form that we can use for life could have ‘evolved’. However, when we review the work done by these evolutionary scientists we read “Insights gained from such studies, as reviewed herein, challenge traditional models for the evolution of biological nitrogen fixation”. This wording that traditional models are ‘challenged’ means that what they thought might have happened they now know definitely did not happen, and they are now trying to develop what they say are “new conceptual models that explain the stepwise evolution of this highly complex life sustaining process”. These are the results reported in the article, “New insights into the evolutionary history of biological nitrogen fixation” published the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.
The molecules that life is made of have nitrogen in them. The problem is that nitrogen must come from the atmosphere and the form of nitrogen that is in the atmosphere cannot be used by life for life. The nitrogen gas that is in the atmosphere must be ‘fixed’ by bacteria to change the form of the nitrogen so it can be used to make life. Life cannot exist without nitrogen fixation done by bacteria. This is an undisputed fact.
It is also an undisputed fact that evolution cannot be true if nitrogen fixation could not have developed through evolution. It is a necessary condition.
You do not need to be a microbiologist or sequence the DNA of bacteria to be fixated on the fact that:
If there is no way that nitrogen fixation could have developed with evolution, then evolution logically cannot be possible.
FURTHER STUDY
The fact that the origin of this essential process of life of nitrogen fixation is unknown is confirmed in the article “Phylogenetic perspectives of nitrogen-fixing actinobacteria” published in the journal Archives of Microbiology. Here we read that this research has “the aim of elucidating the processes underlying the evolutionary history of this catalytic ability” and that “These ideas merit further investigation”. The details of the biologic and chemical processes involved in nitrogen fixation are complex. However, the fact that nitrogen fixation is essential for life is easy to understand. Nitrogen is a part of both DNA and proteins. There is no life without DNA or without proteins. The problem is that the nitrogen in the atmosphere is not in the form that we find it in life. In life the form of nitrogen that we know exists is made through the process called nitrogen fixation.
Life cannot exist without nitrogen fixation. Bacteria must have the ability to do this or there would be no life. This is not controversial. Evolutionists know this is a fact but they have absolutely no idea how this could have ‘evolved’ and now that we have the technology do perform high level investigations including sequencing the DNA of organisms, what we are finding is making what they thought might have happened completely impossible. While we wait for evolutionists to come up with “new conceptual models” and more “ideas” we are force to consider the truth.
It is a published fact in peer reviewed scientific journals that the origin of nitrogen fixation is unknown.