[BroJoeK]

DungeonMaster: "The bacterium is the 747 that must magically fall together from a tornado hitting a junk yard.
A protein is a tiny component in the bacterium."

Sorry, but that 747 analogy is just ridiculous.
Even if we were to use it as a highly flawed analogy for evolution, we'd first notice that 747's didn't start out as 747's, they didn't even start out at Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903.
In a larger sense they started with birds hundreds of millions of years ago learning to fly and with pre-humans hundreds of thousands of years ago learning to make tools.
They started with balloon flights in the 1700s and with 1800s' engines producing mechanical power, etc., etc.

Of course in theory evolution proceeds without conscious direction and without leaps in imagination.
On the other hand, the human directed advances in 100 years of aviation (Wright bros to today) took evolution hundreds of millions to eventually produce, say, the Peregrine falcon.

Sure, I "get" a lot of people say God did it all in a few thousand years, and certainly He could have.
But for some reason the physical evidence He left us suggests much longer periods.

[DungeonMaster]

We use the 747 because of the complexity of the simplest known form of life. One has to imagine a simpler one which also no longer exists. None of the imagined pre bacterium steps exist. By the way what is the next step after a single celled animal? Is there a 2 celled or a 4 celled animal out there somewhere? I can't find one on the internet. The next thing I find is a rotifer with 1000 cells.

Given the football stadium analogy do you have a guess as to how big an average amoeba would be compared to that stadium sized bacterium?