A Once and Future. Both history and the shape of things to come.
Rather spooky considering the number of your post,
Perhaps in no other area of modern biology is the challenge posed by the extreme complexity and ingenuity of biological adaptations more apparent than in the fascinating new molecular world of the cell To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity.
Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality, the smallest element of whicha functional protein or geneis complex beyond our own creative capacities, a reality which is the very antithesis of chance, which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man? Alongside the level of ingenuity and complexity exhibited by the molecular machinery of life, even our most advanced artifacts appear clumsy
It would be an illusion to think that what we are aware of at present is any more than a fraction of the full extent of biological design. In practically every field of fundamental biological research ever-increasing levels of design and complexity are being revealed at an ever-accelerating rate.[13]
For natural selection (differential reproduction) to start, there must be at least one self-reproducing entity. But as shown above, the production of even the simplest cell is beyond the reach of undirected chemical reactions. So its not surprising that Teaching about Evolution omits any discussion of the origin of life... [TRUEORIGIN]
Cracks knuckles and waits for the 'Blah blah blah he quote mined' comments- when I really only posted this particular quote to point out, and give a visual of, how incredibly complex even a 'simple cell' really is, and to make hte point that even at the molecular level, there are intricacies and complexities far far beyond what we imagined which all take a higher level of metainfo to control, and simpyl can't come from simple chemicals.- thought it was just a neat statement that gives soem kind of idea just how intrictely connected and complex everythign really is, even right down to the 'simplest' examples in life. One htne begins to wonder if the 'simplest' is this complicated and itnerdependent, just how many billions of years are needed for even this 'simplistic' evolution to occure and accumulate such info? Let alone trillions of higher and higher complxities as species supposedly evolved via mistakes?