WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.040 How could the complex systems of the life forms come to existence? 00:15.040 --> 00:18.880 Can chance account for complex structures? 00:18.880 --> 00:23.200 What information excited you to most in this regard? 00:23.200 --> 00:24.200 Yeah. 00:24.200 --> 00:29.440 Well, when you look at biochemical systems, these systems are unbelievably complex. 00:29.440 --> 00:35.200 And one of the things that struck me as a graduate student studying biochemistry for the first 00:35.200 --> 00:41.520 time, and at that point I was an agnostic, I didn't know if God existed or not, but what 00:41.520 --> 00:48.440 struck me was not only the complexity, but how elegant and ingenious those systems are. 00:48.440 --> 00:50.840 There is just a beauty to those systems. 00:50.840 --> 00:57.400 And to me, that convinced me that there had to be a creator just on that basis alone. 00:57.400 --> 01:03.960 But it's very difficult to envision how evolutionary mechanisms could create those kind of systems. 01:03.960 --> 01:10.760 And one of the things that absolutely boggles my mind to this very day is that many of these 01:10.760 --> 01:20.360 complex systems are identical to man-made machinery or man-made manufacturing operations. 01:20.360 --> 01:26.680 For example, the process in which proteins are made is a process that looks like a very 01:26.680 --> 01:32.900 sophisticated assembly line or manufacturing operation, even it includes quality control 01:32.900 --> 01:39.200 mechanisms to ensure that the product is produced with a high degree of fidelity. 01:39.200 --> 01:44.980 And one of the things that's fascinating about protein synthesis is that protein synthesis requires 01:44.980 --> 01:47.340 proteins to carry it out. 01:47.340 --> 01:49.940 So you need proteins to make proteins. 01:49.940 --> 01:51.260 That's a chicken and egg system. 01:51.260 --> 01:56.020 And how on earth could something like that emerge through chance? 01:56.020 --> 01:59.980 That to me is a hallmark of design in the work of a mind. 01:59.980 --> 02:05.500 Music 02:05.500 --> 02:06.840 Music 02:06.840 --> 02:12.020 Music 02:12.020 --> 02:14.820 Music 02:14.820 --> 02:19.640 Music 02:20.440 --> 02:27.460 Music 02:27.460 --> 02:29.540 Music