We have discussed many huge problems, but they are not even the worst problem for evolutionists. Life has to be separated from the environment. All life forms are contained. They have skin, a shell, fur, or something that keeps it separated and contained from the environment. The simplest life forms have membranes or cell walls. Even if there was chemical evolution to have molecules to have life, all of these molecules would be lost into the vastness of the environment around them. They would be so diluted in the huge oceans that there would never be enough of anything to get anything. There has to be a cell membrane for there to be life. It is a necessary condition for evolution.
The cell membrane has both structure and function. The structure of cell membranes is made up of other types of molecules called phospholipids, and there is no explanation of how these molecules could have been present to make the structure. Even if you have the structure though, cell membranes do much more that just separate a life form from the surrounding environment. Cell membranes have many functions in addition to just the structure to enclose a cell. The cell membrane is not just a ‘bag’ that contains the cell, the cell membrane does things, and these are called the functions of the cell membrane.
One of these functions is the transportation of molecules into and out of the cell. Since it is a barrier from the environment it has to allow for transport of needed nutrients into the cell and to be able to get the bad stuff (metabolic products) out of the cell. Otherwise, the life cannot continue living. Cell membranes also have signaling and sensing functions and do metabolism, and the origin of all of these complex functions is also unknown!
How do evolutionists explain the development of the first cell membrane? They have not been able to. Even if you have chemical evolution to make the needed molecules which are the building blocks of life, and even ifsomehow you get both genes and metabolism at the same time without either being able to be first, there still can be no life without a cell membrane. If life cannot be separated from the environment there is no life. We know many things about cell membranes; what they look like, what they are made of, and all of the functions that they do. We know cell membranes are essential for life. What we do not know is how a cell membrane could possibly have come into existence through random chance.
Evolutionists know that they must be able to explain how a cell membrane came into existence and they know that they have not been able to. They hope someday they will figure it out, but as of now, no one can. Not the smartest scientists, at the greatest Universities, with all of the best equipment, in the entire world can explain it. We cannot explain how the structure got here and we cannot explain how any of the many functions of the cell membrane came to exist through evolution. The next ‘further study’ section presents the research and current knowledge of The National Academy of Sciences on the cell membrane. At this highest level of achievement and knowledge they describe our current understanding of the origin of the structure and functions of the essential cell membrane as “surprisingly ignorant”.
Evolution cannot be true if the cell membrane did not come into existence through evolution. It is a necessary condition.
The National Academy of Sciences elects members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. However, while the National Academy of Sciences is “still struggling to understand” things that they “know not”, we have no struggle knowing:
If there is no way that a cell membrane could develop with evolution, then evolution logically cannot be possible.
FURTHER STUDY
The International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life published the article “The minimal Autopoietic Unit” where they report “preliminary experimental data supporting the possible existence of this primitive form of cell activity”. It is a fact that The International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life cannot explain the origin of the cell membrane. They only have possibilities based on preliminary data. This is the consensus opinion among the evolutionary experts.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America discusses this problem in the article “Feeling the hidden mechanical forces in lipid bilayer is an original sense”. Here the membrane problem is explained as “Thus, life’s abiotic origin is not just a chicken-and-egg problem, but also a yolk-and-shell problem”. They are making the analogy that without a shell like a membrane there can be no yolk like life inside, and that this is a “problem”. They discuss not only how the origin of the existence of a membrane is unexplained, but even further how we cannot even now understand how the membrane functions. These intricate functions of the cell membrane defy current understanding.
These scientists publishing in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America have declared “We are now at awe by the sophistication of modern membranes…However, at the most basic level we are still struggling to understand how physical forces govern various cell biological, genetic, and developmental processes. The 21st century remains surprisingly ignorant of mechanosensitive processes. We know not the molecular bases of touch, hearing, the Bayliss effect, electromechanical feedback of the heart, the monitoring of blood pressure. Nor do we know how organisms sense gravitation, wind, waves, drought, and flood”. That is quite an extensive list of things that we “know not”.
It is a published fact in peer reviewed scientific journals that the origin of the cell membrane is unknown and that we also do not understand the processes that allow the functions of the membrane, even at the most basic levels, even by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.