Mineral brew grows 'cells': A mixture of simple chemicals produces fungus-like structure.
From the journal Nature. The spiritual descendants of Miller and Urey, who claimed that a lightning bolt in a reducing atmosphere produced the first amino acids, are back. They are now claiming that various mixtures of sodium and copper salts can produce a self-replicating, fungus-like structure. Only problem is, they also start with starch, which as any reader knows is a product of life and is not a product of any non-living process. This is the equivalent of Satan claiming that he can produce life, and starting with a handful of dirt--whereupon God says, "Not so fast. Get your own dirt." Furthermore, I searched that recipe carefully for any compound containing phosphorus or nitrogen, and found none. (Starch is a polysaccharide; it contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen--and nothing else.)

But less-discerning minds won't catch the omission, and the professional "scientists" will claim to have found a far simpler recipe for life than the irreducibly complex cell that Michael Behe identified as the base unit of life. In other words, God will send strong delusion on people, in order that they might believe a lie. [II Thess. 2:11]