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. . . On average, each cell in your body, at this second and every second, is forming two thousand proteins. Every
second! In every cell. Continuously. And they do it so modestly. For all that activity, we can't feel a bit of it. A
protein is a string of several hundred amino acids, and an amino acid is a molecule having twenty or so atoms.
Each cell, every cell in your body, is selecting right now approximately five hundred thousand amino acids,

consisting of some ten million atoms, organizing them into pre-selected strings, join-
ing them together, checking to be certain each string is folded into specific
shapes, and then shipping each protein off to a site, some inside the
cell, some outside, sites that somehow have signaled a need for

these specific proteins. Every second. Every cell. Your body, and
mine too, is a living wonder. 15

As Paul Davies wrote, to claim that this extraordinarily com-
plex system is a product of chance or natural laws is like assert-
ing that a house could be built by blowing up bricks with

dynamite. It is for these reasons that the complexity of life dis-
arms Darwinists. Behe says that none of their scientific publi-
cations gives any evolutionist explanation for the origins of
life:

If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you

focus your search on the question of how molecular machines—
the basis of life—developed, you find an eerie and complete si-
lence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's
attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impen-
etrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach. 16

In short, investigations into the origins of life have been one

major development that has helped bring about the demise of the the-
ory of evolution. So, why do evolutionists still cling to Darwinism?
Harold Urey, one of the authors of the Miller experiment, ad-
mits:

All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we
look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have
evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith that
life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that
its complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it

did. 17

Urey states that he and many of his colleagues "be-
lieve" that the origin of life was a random event. So, actually,
it was not science at the basis of this experiment, but faith. And
the idea that nothing exists besides matter, that everything must

be explained in terms of physical effects, is materialist philosophy.
Darwinism has collapsed scientifically and only blind belief in its
philosophy is keeping it alive, but it can never revive it as a theory.

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