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hing—or even a single leaf. materials brought in from the outside,
and cell-membrane proteins that regulate
the entry and departure of various mate-
Cell rials from the cell. And this is only a part
The complex structure of the cell of the cell’s complex structure.
was unknown in Darwin’s time. For that The evolutionist scientist W. H.
reason, evolutionists of the day believed Thorpe writes, “The most elementary
that it was perfectly reasonable to ans- type of cell constitutes a 'mechanism'
wer the question of “How did life emer- unimaginably more complex than any
ge?” by saying “Through coincidences machine yet thought up, let alone cons-
and natural events.” Darwin suggested tructed, by man.” 76
that the first cell would have had no tro- So complex is the cell that even to-
uble forming in a day’s advanced technology cannot dupli-
small, warm cate one. All the research
drop of water. aimed at making an ar-
(See The Abi- tificial cell has en-
ogenesis View, ded in failure. The
the) But the fact theory of evoluti-
th
is that 20 -cen- on, on the other
tury technology, which hand, maintains
made visible even to that this sys-
the tiniest microscopic tem—which man
details, revealed that has been unable to
the cell was actually replicate with all
the most complex the knowledge
structure yet encoun- and technology
tered. Today we at his dispo-
know that the cell sal—once for-
contains energy-producing plants, facto- med by chance
ries that produce the enzymes and hor- on the primeval Earth. This is far less li-
mones essential to life, a data bank con- kely, for instance, than even an explosi-
taining all the information about the pro- on in a publishing house resulting in the
ducts to be manufactured, a complex coincidental printing of an encyclopedia.
transportation system that carries raw The British mathematician and astro-
materials and products from one region nomer Sir Fred Hoyle offered a similar
to another, pipelines, advanced laborato- analogy in the 12 November 1981 editi-
ries and refineries that break down raw on of Nature magazine. Despite being a
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)