[Coyoteman]

However the idea that biological systems as complex as an cell evolved WITHOUT a designer violates the law of probability. That is the likelihood of a cell occurring by chance through some designer-free evolution, without a purposeful designer is so vanishingly small as to be indistinguishable for all practical purposes from zero.

The following online lecture kind of changes that estimate of probability, doesn't it?

Making Genetic Networks Operate Robustly: Unintelligent Non-design Suffices, by Professor Garrett Odell

Abstract: Mathematical computer models of two ancient and famous genetic networks act early in embryos of many different species to determine the body plan. Models revealed these networks to be astonishingly robust, despite their 'unintelligent design.' This examines the use of mathematical models to shed light on how biological, pattern-forming gene networks operate and how thoughtless, haphazard, non-design produces networks whose robustness seems inspired, begging the question what else unintelligent non-design might be capable of.

[bvw]

According to the lecture summary Prof. Odell is way overstating how "thoughtless, haphazard, non-designed" his system is. The system is FULL OF design. Where that design is found needs a subtle intellect! It's easy to ignore because it's in buried in the background. A purposeful researcher, and humans generally, focuses on the foreground.

Here are some of the many things that are designed, upon which his results are based, necessary for his results. Not a full listing:

• the computer system
• the program that implemented the "genetic" algorithm, which might called the virtual ecosystem
• the initial settings of the state vector of the process
• the observation points and outputs that allowed the Professor to monitor the process or/and results
• the selection algorithm and/or the rubric by which the Professor evaluated the algorithm
• the language and grammar (presumably modern English) the Professor used to write down his ideas, to communicate with peers, that was used by those who taught him
• the Professor's clothes which kept him warm
• the building the Professor worked in
• the ground the building stood on
• time
• space
• physics
• the Professor himself