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As the systems in the human body go about their work, they
also assume responsibility for the coordination, order and organi-
zation of these tasks. That is why we describe structures in the
body as intelligent and why we seek to account for the source of
that intelligence. No doubt, the term intelligent cell or intelligent
organ is a metaphor, because cells or tissues with no brain or ner-
vous system cannot have their own consciousness. Yet an aston-
ishing consciousness does emerge in everything they do. This rep-
resents an insoluble dilemma for Darwinists and all materialists,
who maintain that consciousness is born from the cells in the brain
and the chemical reactions among those cells. In short, according
to the materialist claims, consciousness consists of the brain.
Though materialists attempt to reduce consciousness to the
brain, scientific observations show that even living things with no
brains possess consciousness. The intelligent cells examined
throughout the course of this book are just one example. In recent
years, observations of bacteria and other single-celled organisms
have shown that these microscopic entities literally evaluate their
surroundings in an exceedingly intelligent manner and make
appropriate decisions. The molecular biologist Michael Denton
writes:
The amoeba, although the size of a small speck of dust, exhibits
behavioral strategies which seem objectively indistinguishable
from those of animals far higher up the scale. If an amoeba
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