How could the complex systems of the life forms come to existence?
Can chance account for complex structures?
What information excited you to most in this regard?
Yeah.
Well, when you look at biochemical systems, these systems are unbelievably complex.
And one of the things that struck me as a graduate student studying biochemistry for the first
time, and at that point I was an agnostic, I didn't know if God existed or not, but what
struck me was not only the complexity, but how elegant and ingenious those systems are.
There is just a beauty to those systems.
And to me, that convinced me that there had to be a creator just on that basis alone.
But it's very difficult to envision how evolutionary mechanisms could create those kind of systems.
And one of the things that absolutely boggles my mind to this very day is that many of these
complex systems are identical to man-made machinery or man-made manufacturing operations.
For example, the process in which proteins are made is a process that looks like a very
sophisticated assembly line or manufacturing operation, even it includes quality control
mechanisms to ensure that the product is produced with a high degree of fidelity.
And one of the things that's fascinating about protein synthesis is that protein synthesis requires
proteins to carry it out.
So you need proteins to make proteins.
That's a chicken and egg system.
And how on earth could something like that emerge through chance?
That to me is a hallmark of design in the work of a mind.
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