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o describe the cell's com plex struc ture and the
proc ess es requir ing infor ma tion and plan ning that
it car ries out, many sci en tists resort to anal o gies.
Some com pare cells to specially designed space -
ships, oth ers to high ly devel oped city cen ters, and still oth -
ers to lab o ra to ry envi ron ments at a far high er tech no log i -
cal level than those known today. Yet fol low ing such com -
par i sons, they always state that the cell is actu al ly far, far
more com plex.
W. Thorpe, a Cambridge University pro fes sor of zool -
o gy, refers to the com plex i ty of the cell in these terms:
I think it is fair to say that all the fac ile spec u la tions and dis -
cus sions pub lished dur ing the last 10 to 15 years explain ing the
mode of ori gin of life have been shown to be far too sim ple-
mind ed and to bear very lit tle weight. The prob lem in fact seems
as far from a solu tion as it ever was. The ori gin of even the sim -
plest cell poses a prob lem hard ly less dif fi cult. The most ele -
men ta ry type of cell con sti tutes a mech a nism unim ag in -
a bly more com plex than any machine yet thought up, let
alone con struct ed by man. There is no real clue as to the way
in which any of these rid dles were solved . . . 7
The accounts given by Darwinists regard ing the begin -
ning of life refer only to an alleg ed ly very sim ple cell that

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