“Michael Denton, “Evolution theory & Crisis” “Magnify the cell a billion times, … at that magnitude the cell is ten miles in diameter and resembles a giant spaceship large enough to engulf a sizable city. … unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. … On the surface are millions of openings like the portholes of a ship opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out … as we enter one of these portholes we discover a world of … (amazing) technology and extreme complexity. We see endless highly organized corridors and conduits … branching in every direction from the perimeter of the cell … some leading to the central memory bank in the nucleus and some leading to assembly plants and processing units … The nucleus itself is a vast chamber a mile in diameter … Inside we see neatly stacked coiled chains of DNA … thousands and even millions of miles in length … This DNA serves as a memory bank to build the simplest functional components of the cell … The protein molecules, yet proteins themselves are astonishingly complex pieces of molecular machinery. The average protein consists of several hundred precisely ordered amino acids arranged in a highly organized three-dimensional structure … robot like machines working in synchrony shuttle a huge range of products and raw materials along the many conduits to and from the various assembly plants in the outer regions of the cell. Everything is precisely choreographed, indeed, the level of control implicit in the coordinated movements of so many objects down to so many seemingly endless conduits all in unison is mindboggling. As we watch the strangely purposeful activities, of these uncanny molecular machines, we quickly realize that despite all of our accumulated knowledge in the natural and engineering sciences, the task of designing even the most basic component of the cells molecular machinery …. The proteins … is completely beyond our present capacity. Yet the life of the cell depends on the integrated activities of numerous protein molecules most of which work in integrated complexes with other proteins. In touring the cell we see our own technologies has its … analogue inside the cell. Inside the cell we see information processing, storage and retrieval. We see artificial languages and their decoding systems. We see error detection, correction, and proof reading devices for quality control. We see elegant feedback systems that monitor and regulate cellular processes … We see digital data imbedding technology, we see signal transduction circuitry, we see transportation and distribution services, We see automated addresses (ie zip codes), … we see assembly processes employing pre-fabrication and modular construction, we see self-reproducing robotic manufacturing plants …” we see things we can’t do with all our intelligence which seems to indicate to me that this is a product of intelligence” – Frank Turek
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:05:17 +0000
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