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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

Michael Behe describes this impasse faced by
Darwinist sci en tists with a quo ta tion from the evo lu tion ist
James Shapiro:

The bot tom line is that the cell—the very basis of life—is stag -
ger ing ly com plex. But doesn't sci ence already have answers, or
par tial answers, for how these sys tems orig i nat ed? No. As James
Shapiro, a bio chem ist at the University of Chicago, wrote,
"There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evo lu tion of
any fun da men tal bio chem i cal or cel lu lar sys tem, only a vari e ty
of wish ful spec u la tions." A few sci en tists have sug gest ed non-
Darwinian the o ries to account for the cell, but I don't find them
per sua sive. Instead, I think that the com plex sys tems were
designed—pur pose ly arranged by an intel li gent agent. 19

Professor Gerald Schroeder, who works at MIT in the

The eye's retinal cells have
been specially created to be
sensitive to light. When pho-
tons strike these cells, they
set one another in motion,
like dominos stacked up in a
row. This causes various
proteins to change form and
for new attachments to take
place among them.
Following a chain of chemi-
cal reactions, electrical stim-
uli are generated. Nerves
transmit these to the brain,
where the process we refer
to as vision takes place.
This bright world you see in
all its details is a great
blessing imparted by our Retina
Lord, by means of the flaw-
less structure of your retinal
cells.
Cone Rod
cell cell

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