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taste and move, but even to fly with great precision. Butterflies routinely navigate enormous distances.
Bees and ants carry on complex social organizations, building projects, and communications. These
miniature brains put our computers and avionics to shame, in comparison.
The marvels of the bodies of both animals and man are evidently endless. Dr. A.E. Wilder-Smith makes
this thought-provoking and humbling statement:

“When one considers that the entire chemical information to construct a man, elephant, frog, or an
orchid was compressed into two minuscule reproductive cells [sperm and egg nuclei], one can only
be astounded.

In addition to this, all the information is available on the genes to repair the body (not only to
construct it) when it is injured. If one were to request an engineer to accomplish this feat of
information miniaturization, one would be considered fit for the psychiatric clinic.” 163

It is certainly true that a machine carefully made by a craftsman reflects the existence
of its creator. It would be foolish to suggest that time and chance could make a
computer or a microwave oven, or that the individual parts could form themselves into
these complex mechanisms due to the physical properties of matter. Yet, life is far, far
more complex than any man-made machine.

The more scientists study life, the more they become deeply impressed. Nature is full
of intricate design and beauty. In contrast to man-made objects, which look increasingly crude in finish
and detail the closer they are viewed (i.e., through powerful microscopes), the closer life is examined
the more complex and wondrous it appears. Biologists are continuing to make exciting discoveries of
ever greater levels of design and complexity.

Planet Earth is filled with a myriad of life forms, each with enormous
levels of complexity. Materialists believe life in all its amazing forms
consists merely of atoms and molecules. They believe these atoms and
molecules formed themselves into millions of intricate animals and
plants. This view was born out of an earlier, more naive period in
science when the extreme complexity of living systems was not
understood.

Even if nature could have originally built the proteins and enzymes used
by living things, the job would not have been done. It takes more than
this to produce life. There is an enormous difference between producing building blocks and producing
a fully operating and serviced 100-story skyscraper from those building blocks. Buildings require
builders; programs require programmers.

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