Life was made

Thanks for the debate Pro. I reject the resolution that life was made, and the claim that the bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex. First, though it does not affect the debate, Pro is incorrect about the most complex molecule known to mankind. i-propyl cyanide is more complex than DNA. https://www.google.com... 1. Pro claims that the bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex, which means that if you remove ANY part of the bacterial flagellum, then it can no longer function in the manner it is most useful for "[propelling] the bacteria through the micro world of the body." My response: Well, like all things organic, the bacterium's flagellum is determined by genes. The funny thing is, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) along with the NIH deleted genes from the flagellar apparatus and found that, though it was reduced, the motility (propelling through the micro world) remained. Directly from the NCBI "[We] tested an Escherichia coli gene deletion array for motility defects (using swarming assays) and found 159 gene deletion strains to have reduced...motility." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... So even with deleted genes, the necessary components of the complex flagellum, the flagellum can still function as a propeller through the micro world. Reducible. 2. Pro baldly asserts: "it's impossible to assemble the [flagellum] step by step through natural selection" My response: Ok, well the people at NCBI, who may have a slightly better understanding of the flagellum's evolutionary history than Pro, noticed that "phenotyping data reveals a conserved core of motility proteins, which appear to have recruited many additional species-specific components over time." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... So not only is the flagellum not irreducibly complex, but the very things that give the flagellum its function, motility proteins, have been developing over time in bacteria...step by step. 3. Pro asserts: "There are currently no scientifically sound naturalistic theories on the origin of the first cell, or the beginning of life." My response: I know that Pro said that they wouldn't use this assertion to argue a designer, but this statement cannot go unchallenged. Abiogenesis is a fact. Abiogenesis is the fact that life can come from inorganic compounds. In chemistry, a compound is organic if it is covalently bonded to carbon. If the compound is not covalently bonded to carbon it is inorganic. So the distinction between inorganic and organic in chemistry can be very small if you're dealing with carbon compounds. The Miller Urey and replicated experiments showed that with naturally occurring atmospheric gases, inorganic compounds, like those of earlier earth, can become organic compounds. http://www.scientificamerican.com... So let's see how extreme inorganic-->organic is. Here's an inorganic carbon compound, cyanate H N C O Here's an organic compound, an amino acid/building block of life, Glycine C 2 H 5 N O 2 Does Glycine seem to have anything in it that couldn't be found in earth's earlier atmosphere? Ok well then the idea of inorganic-->organic shouldn't seem that radical. A claim from people who have not looked at the replicated studies of the Miller Urey is that too much oxygen, which would be present in earth's atmosphere, ruins the results of inorganic-->organic. This is true, but any lowering at all of the oxygen from the typical atmosphere allows for the inorganic-->organic switch proven in the experiments. These oxygen fluctuations are demonstrable. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org... Once we have amino acids, many opponents to the theory say, well amino acids are just lifeless organic matter...how do you get to replication genetically? Ready? Amino acids react with each other, and if a chain of amino acids, polypeptides, fold onto themselves, they become biologically active. To quote the NIH: "The sequence of the amino acid chain causes the polypeptide to fold into a shape that is biologically active." http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov... Once we have biologically active proteins, we are talking about basic genetics. RNA - a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins. Abiogenesis proves that life can come from non-life with the pressures and atmosphere of an earlier earth, and this negates Pro's claim that there are no sound naturalistic theories for the origins of life/first cell. In any case, I reject the resolution that life was made, that the bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex, and that the flagellum could not have evolved over time, because amino acids reacting with each other is not a creator, a gene-deleted flagellum still performs its function, and motility proteins phenotypically demonstrate the acquiring of more motility proteins over time.