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How could the complex systems of the life forms come to existence?

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Can chance account for complex structures?

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What information excited you to most in this regard?

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Yeah.

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Well, when you look at biochemical systems, these systems are unbelievably complex.

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And one of the things that struck me as a graduate student studying biochemistry for the first

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time, and at that point I was an agnostic, I didn't know if God existed or not, but what

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struck me was not only the complexity, but how elegant and ingenious those systems are.

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There is just a beauty to those systems.

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And to me, that convinced me that there had to be a creator just on that basis alone.

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But it's very difficult to envision how evolutionary mechanisms could create those kind of systems.

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And one of the things that absolutely boggles my mind to this very day is that many of these

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complex systems are identical to man-made machinery or man-made manufacturing operations.

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For example, the process in which proteins are made is a process that looks like a very

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sophisticated assembly line or manufacturing operation, even it includes quality control

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mechanisms to ensure that the product is produced with a high degree of fidelity.

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And one of the things that's fascinating about protein synthesis is that protein synthesis requires

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proteins to carry it out.

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So you need proteins to make proteins.

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That's a chicken and egg system.

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And how on earth could something like that emerge through chance?

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That to me is a hallmark of design in the work of a mind.

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