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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

accord in nature. Yet every detail in the cell is part of a
spe cif ic plan and order. Every detail reveals the exis tence
of a supe ri or Creator.
Fred Hoyle, the well-known British sci en tist, exam -
ined this ques tion in detail:

If there were a basic prin ci ple of mat ter which some how drove
organ ic sys tems toward life, its exis tence should eas i ly be
demon stra ble in the lab o ra to ry. One could, for instance, take
a swim ming pool to rep re sent the pri mor di al soup. Fill it with
any chem i cals of non-bio log i cal nature you please. Pump any
gases over it, or through it, you please, and shine any kind of
radi a tion on it that takes your fancy. Let the exper i ment pro -
ceed for a year and see how many of those 2,000 enzymes (pro -
teins pro duced by liv ing cells) have appeared in the bath. I will
give the answer, and so save the time and troub le and expense
of actu al ly doing the exper i ment. You would find noth ing at
all, except pos si bly for a tarry sludge com posed of amino acids
and other sim ple organ ic chem i cals. 11
One evo lu tion ist writer makes the fol low ing admis -
sion:
The pop u lar con cep tion of prim i tive cells as the start ing point
for the ori gin of the spe cies is real ly erro ne ous. There was
noth ing func tion al ly prim i tive about such cells. They con -
tained bas i cal ly the same bio chem i cal equip ment as do their
mod ern coun ter parts. "How, then, did the pre cur sor cell
arise?" The only une quiv o cal rejoin der to this ques tion is that
we do not know. 12
The research er and writer Howard Peth states that
there is no such thing as a sim ple cell:
Formerly, it was thought that a cell was com posed of nucle us

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