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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

ing speed. Their orga nized and coor di nat ed func tions are
of a com plex i ty that defies descrip tion.
Despite being a con firmed athe ist and who there fore
sought to account for the ori gin of the cell in terms of
coin ci dence, the American astron o mer and biol o gist Carl
Sagan referred to the activ i ties in the cell:

A liv ing cell is a mar vel of detailed and com plex archi tec ture.
Seen through a micro scope, there is an appear ance of almost
fran tic activ i ty. On a deep er level it is known that mol e cu les
are being syn the sized at an enor mous rate. 17
Michael Behe, a famous pro fes sor of bio chem is try
from Lehigh University and one of the most prom i nent
con tem po ra ry crit ics of Darwinism, has stat ed that every -
thing inside the cell con tains far more com plex struc tures
than it would appear:

I believe that Darwin's mech a nism for evo lu tion doesn't
explain much of what is seen under a micro scope. Cells are
sim ply too com plex to have evolved ran dom ly; intel li gence
was required to pro duce them. Darwin's the o ry encoun ters its
great est dif fi cul ties when it comes to explain ing the devel op -
ment of the cell. Many cel lu lar sys tems are what I term "irre -
du ci bly com plex." That means the sys tem needs sev er al com -
po nents before it can work prop er ly. . . . Such a sys tem prob -
a bly can not be put togeth er in a Darwinian man ner, grad u al -
ly improv ing its func tion. 18

The cell's "irre du ci ble com plex i ty" pre sup pos es that a
great many com po nents need to be present and fully
formed in order for the sys tem to work. That being so,
coin ci den ces would need to bring all the com po nents of

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