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WHY DO YOU BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION?

> Genetic Recombination

> Endogenous Retroviruses

“The ribosome, both looking at the past and at the future, is a very significant structure —
it's the most complicated thing that is present in
all organisms …
So the question is, how
did that thing come to be? And if I were to be an intelligent design
defender, that's what I would focus on; how did the ribosome come to be?”
—George Church

Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics, at a roundtable symposium entitled, “Life: What A Concept!” August 27, 2007.
http://www.edge.org/
documents/archive/
edge233.html#life

The Origin of Life

In the past, the complexity of a single cell was unknown. But with all that we know about genetics today, it is inconceivable for anyone to summarize that life could have been created from non-life and assembled by chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj9cdVeIntY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5mGi6yEeM

There is no lack of creative scenarios that attempt to explain how life emerged. What’s lacking is any proof that life miraculously arose by chance:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/040401081143.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news115988029.html
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/463.html
http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/071030_DNA.shtml
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=
article&sid=2434&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://www.physorg.com/news100533246.html
http://www.hhmi.org/news/szostak4.html

Is There Such a Thing as a ‘Simple’ Form of Life?

One of the SIMPLEST forms of life is a prokaryotic bacteria cell. The outer construction is made up of a cell wall, a cytoplasmic membrane, and an outer membrane capsule. Its contents include the nucleoid, cytoplasm, ribosomes, and its DNA. It also has a flagellum for movement and pili to help the bacteria attach to other cells and surfaces.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/bacteriacell.html

Because cells require several components to exist, how likely was it that each component:

‘Found’ each other within an exact location?
‘Assembled’ perfectly with the other components to make-up a fully contained cell?
Had the capabilities of self-replication through a very complicated cell division process?
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/pipe/ftsz/present/index.htm

The Complexity of Cells is Staggering:

DNA and RNA are instructional, duplicate, and highly complex information codes within a cell. DNA acts like the original computer code and RNA acts like a copy machine, repeating and decoding the instructions to each part of the cell:
“DNA carries the genetic information of a cell and consists of thousands of genes. Each gene serves as a recipe on how to build a protein molecule. Proteins perform important tasks for the cell functions or serve as building blocks. The flow of information from the genes determines the protein composition and thereby the functions of the cell … Every cell must contain the genetic information and the DNA is therefore duplicated before a cell divides (replication).”
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/dna/index.html
“DNA even contains the instructions to devise the cellular machinery to decode its instructions. Without a mechanism to decode the information, the DNA blueprint would be useless.”
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2007/0228dna-secret.asp
Cells generate their own electrical fields by a current of ions crossing the cell membrane.
“The membranes of living cells, from bacteria to human, contain protein macromolecules that behave rather like field-effect transistors.”
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v423/n6935/full/423021a.html
http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/36/6_1/atp.html
Seemingly identical cells 'differentiate', each one independently building a specific part of an organism.
“'We still do not fully understand how cells differentiate,' said Thomas Aune, Ph.D., professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology. 'We know that the cell is essentially defined by the genes it expresses. That makes a given type of cell 'that cell' — a nerve cell, a heart cell, etc.,' he said.”
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=5669
Within cells, there are hundreds of various types of high tech miniscule molecular motors that continually read, copy, and continually repair DNA, and, “are involved in everything from muscle contraction, to moving chromosomes during cell division, to reloading necessary ammunition within nerves cells so they can repeatedly fire.”
http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/research/Highlights/NaturesMicroscopicMotors.htm
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=6671
Bacterial cells have a ‘flagellum’ that allows each one to swim independently of another. Each flagellum has a microscopic electrical motor complete with parts resembling a drive shaft, a universal joint, bushings and bearings, a rotor, a propeller, and more. This motor can rotate at over 1000 times per second, change directions and is powered by the voltage difference developed across the cell membrane.
(Paul Boyer of UC Los Angeles and John Walker of the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge won a half share of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of this enzyme/motor.)
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/eprint/cDJrS190m62mDRwHrlp9/full/10.1146/
annurev.biochem.72.121801.161737

Attempting to prove that life arose spontaneously, note that Harvard University’s Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative plans on “adding faculty members and a collection of multi-million dollars facilities.”
If it’s so easy to “reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention," why does it appear they’re in it for the long haul?
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050815/ai_n14882732/print