Have you ever squashed a mosquito?

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A Squashed Mosquito is Dead Forever
Author: Tom Wagner
Have you ever squashed a mosquito? Interestingly, the squashing of a mosquito may help us understand what makes life possible and what makes the spontaneous generation of life impossible.

When a mosquito is slapped, what happens? Obviously it's shape changes and it dies. But what makes it die? All of the thousands of sophisticated chemicals which make up its body are still there, relatively unaltered. At the moment of impact its cellular components are still intact including the all-important DNA. So why is it now dead?

This article is one of many found within Mr. Malone's excellent book, Search for the Truth. Prior to being smashed, the mosquito was highly organized information. But when hit, it became disordered, causing critical information in the design of its body to become jumbled. There arose confusion in the finely tuned co-ordination of chemistry (including the chemicals involved in its overall structure) which culminated in an overall breakdown, resulting in death. And you thought you just slapped it!

For another example, lets say you were to take 100 million bacteria and concentrate them in the bottom of a test tube. Now if you were to physically lyse (break open) the membrane of each of the cells, insides would spill out, forming a concentrated mixture of incredibly complex "life-giving" chemicals. Yet, even though all of the right 'stuff' for life is there, not even one of the 100 million critters will come back to life, nor would any new creature arise.

If the already complex chemistry of minuscule bacteria cannot reorganize itself back into a living cell, even when concentrated in the test tube environment under carefully controlled conditions, then how could life have evolved in the first place, from basically uncomplicated chemicals in conditions FAR less appropriate than this experimental situation? It simply could never happen!

As with the mosquito, in order for life to exist the chemistry must be specifically organized and controlled in time and as well as space. For a cell to live, it must be surrounded by a sophisticated membrane that allows only certain chemicals in and out, according to when they are needed, not just at any time. Inside the cell, the proportions of an element or compound must be just right, otherwise the whole system may be thrown off balance and the organism will die. Furthermore, the entire living mechanism must be controlled by the fantastically complex genetic structure of DNA.

All this means that, in order for the chemistry to have come together in the first place, the individual atoms must have been purposefully and simultaneously organized by a creator having the knowledge and power to do such a thing. It could not possibly have happened by the right chemicals just "coming together".

It is Jesus, the Son of the Living God, who deserves our praise for the awesome things He has accomplished in this creation of His. There is no other plausible explanation for the complex life we find all around us. Yet this plausible explanation is the only explanation that is not allowed to be discussed in our public schools!

Answer 1

i agree .. no way can dna form spontaneously .. it contains the codes within itself to copy itself ...it couldnt just happen ..

Answer 2

Some pretty bad science in all those words from someone who thinks that a cocktail of life giving chemicals will spill out of bacteria in a test tube????

My dear fools, there are bacteria that have been dead for hundreds maybe thousands of years, embedded in rock that have spontaneously come back to life when they came into contact with other chemicals like oxygen. The mosquito didn't die because "critical information in the design of its body to became jumbled" It died because its major organs were crushed preventing them from working. If the mosquito died instantly, that is because its brain, or whatever neurological system it uses was crushed! The nonsense this Mr. Malone writes suggests that there is no need for major organs to even exist! There was a lot more at work when life first appeared than just some bacteria in a test tube, but this christian pseudo scientist has conveniently ignored important works on the theories of this to suit his own agendas. It won't be long before science can show this in a labratory, infact I think it may have been done!

Answer 3

Unlike all other religions, Christianity alone possesses a founder who transcends death and who promises that His followers will do the same. All other (false) religions were founded by men and prophets whose end was the grave. As Christians, we take comfort in the fact that our God became man, died for our sins, was killed, and was resurrected the third day. The grave could not hold Him. He lives and He sits today at the right hand of God the Father in heaven. The living church has a living Head.

Answer 4

Have you ever squashed a cell phone?

Obviously it's shape changes and it dies. But what makes it die? All of the thousands of sophisticated circuits which make up its body are still there, relatively unaltered. At the moment of impact its main components are still intact including the all-important central chip. So why is it now dead?

DUH....

Answer 5

You don't appear to be discussing anything, just making a point based on poor reasoning. This is one reason why religion is better confined to a separate class from any science subject because religious beliefs and practices are perfectly valid when examined in an appropriate place. Thye look dreadsful when released into scientific debate

Answer 6

Ok, so you're saying that the existence of death is proof of life after death? specifically, because the mosquito CAN die, your imaginary friend MUST BE real.

No offence: do you have any idea how ignorant that argument seems?

the mosquito dies because the electrical impulses controlling it stop.

much more simple than: a wizard did it, but no one can see the wizard!

Answer 7

well, whatever is behind your mind,God is omnipotent,omniscience and Alfa and omega.in the book of Ezekiel,God asked the question to him,whether the dry bone can rise again?.Jesus presenting himself as king and a God or the Word,hitherto,proceeded to lay it done and take it up again proves the sign of authority as the Almighty.mosquitoes permit me to say can be represented as animals whose spirit when the are crushed goes down but our spirit when dead goes up.to do what?Hebrew 9:29.

Answer 8

science is sometimes difficult to understand and it takes time and thought... yet people only want to believe simple things like 'god did it'. has anyone been able to explain how god did it? where god came from? what's he doing now? there is no evidence for any of this, yet there is plenty of evidence for the scientific theories about how life originated.

you obviously choose the simple answer because you do not understand the scientific one. but that's because of your ignorance of science, not because the science is wrong.

Answer 9

Will any of this matter when you're dead? I'm sure when you are dead and without a brain it won't really matter since you don't have a way to have memory or think, let a lone have a body.

Wake up people.

Answer 10

I understand what you're thinking. In Buddhism, every life is precious. Here are my three rules about bugs. 1) If they are attacking me, no matter where they are, then they are fair game for killing. 2) If it's in the house, they don't belong there so I take them outside (if it's a beneficial arthropod, such as a spider), or kill them (like a fly, beetle, etc.) 3) If it's outside the house, then it's okay and I leave it alone. If it's really fascinating, then I might capture it or take a picture of it or take it to lab and look at it under the microscope. However, if it's outside the house and #1 happens (see above) then I can swat at it. I work on fruit flies, and dissect them a lot, so my bad karma dream is that I will be torn apart by huge tweezers, ugh :-)

Answer 11

I don't understand. When you're told that evolution explains the complexity of life, why do you think that saying something is realllly complex will refute that?

Life began much simpler than a mosquito.