Irreducible
Complex orders fly from the executive office to the factory floor. Raw materials are gathered from the warehouse and brought to the production floor. This factory can fill orders for products and parts needed for anything from its own maintenance issues there in the plant to products needing shipped out to other locations, also it produces parts for larger products being assembled there in the factory. Once any order is finished it’s off to quality control to make any corrections or final adjustments, then onto the packaging center where the parts will be prepared for further assembly inside the factory or for transport out from the factory. This factory produces its own energy derived totally from the sun and then converts it into fuel for the production plant. It comes equipped with its own maintenance crew that not only disposes of the waste materials but also finds and replaces any deficient parts in the factory itself. This factory is in perpetual production, never shutting down for holidays, repairs, or rest. It must be because it's on a very tight deadline to replace itself. That's right this factory gathers the raw materials, and then completely constructs another factory just like itself, and it does this while still filling all its many other production orders and responsibilities without fail. This amazing factory, while like the one pictured, is a single human cell.
Over
recent decades with the advancement of technology the reality of the incredible
complexity in one single cell has been brought into clear view and what has
been found is a deeper much more complex set of systems than could have ever
been imagined. These systems are Molecular Machines. Machines that have moving
parts and that accomplish tasks, they capture solar energy, they build complex
protein structures, they bring in food, they allow the cell to swim, they act
as cables and pulleys, and haul cargo back and forth. These machines build
there own replicas and work to manufacture a complete duplicate of the entire
cell structure.
The
question this raises is how does evolution stand up to such incredible
complexity at what should be such a basic level? In short, it just doesn’t. The
Theory of evolution stands silent at the view of the amazingly sophisticated
machinery that is working in such an immensely complex way as to keep
calibrated the reality of life that we enjoy. Each one of these vitally
important machines is in itself so complex they stand up to the modern day
machines we have around us and surpass even those in design and efficiency. Each
of these machines has an enormous amount of vitally important responsibilities,
it would be hard to imagine, even for the molecular biologist, how even one of
these workers could be removed from their station or how many billions and
billions of years one would need to “evolve” such an efficiently sophisticated
and tightly coordinated team of biological machines as we are seeing at the
foundations of life.
Darwin
himself is famously quoted saying- If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ
existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive,
slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
An
abundance of evidence opposed to the evolutionary theory exists but the
discovery of molecular machines is throwing up road blocks from such a myriad
of angles that even the very men doing the work to uncover them are calling it
engineering. After all these machines are not only complex themselves but are
working to build structures that must be precise in there design, so where’s
the blueprints, who’s giving the precise instructions, who is the conductor of
this tightly organized orchestra of assemblage?
Even
the simple tasks we see being completed all around us every day require
information to get them started. When we learned to ride our bike, someone had
to impart that information for us to practice and complete that task, and we could
fail and try again.
The
tasks being performed by these machines are so advanced our smartest minds are
left scratching there heads as to how they are able to pull them off, and with
these tasks there is no room for error, no practice and try again. When any of
these cellular systems isn’t precisely completed, and I mean precisely, serious
disease, dysfunction, or death follows. The organism fails with not much chance
to “evolve.”
Biochemist
and author Michael Behe is quoted saying-
"The
complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for
it; molecular machines raise an as-yet impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal
reach."
Romans
1:20
For since the creation of the world God's
invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly
seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without
excuse.
I’d
like to end this rant with a quote by Dr. Robert Jastrow who holds a PhD in
Theoretical Physics was the first chairman of NASA’s Lunar Exploration
Committee for the Apollo missions and after became Professor of Earth Sciences
at Dartmouth College
"For
the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends
like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to
conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is
greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for
centuries."
