Hi Half Banana,
I think that exchanging the word "chicken" with the word "bird" or "dinosaur" doesn't resolve the problem.
Which came first the dinosaur or the egg? Same problem, different chicken.
Getting down to the root of the problem, Researchers may one day exhaustively understand complete human cells, but they don't now. To understand how far contemporary science is from this milestone, we first require estimates of the complexity of human cells. One reference suggests that a human sperm cell has a volume of 30 cubic micrometers, while another reveals that most human cells have densities quite similar to that of water (a thousand kilograms per cubic meter). Using the final fact that the molar mass of water is 18 grams, a quick calculation suggests that human sperm cells contain roughly a trillion atoms. For another datapoint, assuming neuronal cell volume of 6000 cubic micrometers, the analogous number for neurons is roughly 175 trillion atoms per cell.
THE COMPLEXITY OF THE CELL
The cell is the most complex and
most elegantly designed system
man has ever witnessed. Professor
of biology Michael Denton, in his
book entitled Evolution: A Theory in
Crisis, explains this complexity with
an example:
"To grasp the reality of life as it
has been revealed by molecular
biology, we must magnify a cell a
thousand million times until it is
twenty kilometers in diameter and
resembles a giant airship large
enough to cover a great city like
London or New York.
What we
would then see would be an object
of unparalelled complexity and
adaptive design. On the surface of
the cell we would see millions of
openings, like port holes of a vast
space ship, opening and closing to
allow a continual stream of
materials to flow in and out. If we
were to enter one of these
openings we would find ourselves in
a world of supreme technology and
bewildering complexity... (a complexity) beyond our own creative capacities, a reality which is the very
antithesis of chance, which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man..."
Professor Klaus Dose, the president of the Institute of Biochemistrat the University of Johannes
Gutenberg, states:
More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields of chemical and molecular
evolution have led to a better perception of the immensity of the problem of the origin of life on Earth
rather than to its solution. At present all discussions on principal theories and experiments in the field
either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance.
The problem is that we have advanced our observational capabilities by several orders of magnatude than where they were just fifty years ago.
Fifty years ago, the first molecular dynamics papers allowed scientists to exhaustively simulate systems with a few dozen atoms for picoseconds. Today ...due to significant gains in algorithmic sophisticiation from fifty years of research, modern scientists can simulate systems with hundreds of thousands of atoms for milliseconds at a time. Put another way, scientists today can study systems tens of thousands of times larger, for billion of times longer than they could fifty years go.
This capability has revealed a cell complexity beyond anything ever previously imagined and has traditional darwinian evolutionists running for their lives.
Mutations happen at known rates with the vast majority being destructive to the system. This known rate allows researches to calculate how long it might take to get a cell. The numbers are in the quadrillions of years and beyond.
Here they run into a problem with astronomers who are able to accurately calculate the age of the universe by observing the expanding universe and running it backwards. They come up with around 13 billion years. Not enough time. Darwinists have hit a time wall with astronomers.
Darwinian evolution is being taken down by other fields of research, that because of advances in observational techniques, has revealed a complexity beyond anything conceivable.
This is all pretty cutting edge stuff and your grandfathers' evolutionist is simply not keeping up with modern discoveries of complexity.
Chandra Wickramasinghe, one of the grearest scientists who ever lived, describes the reality he faced as a scientist who had been told throughout his life
that life had emerged as a result of chance coincidences:
From my earliest training as a scientist, I was very strongly brainwashed to believe that science cannot be
consistent with any kind of deliberate creation. That notion has had to be painfully shed. At the moment, I
can't find any rational argument to knock down the view which argues for conversion to God. We used to
have an open mind; now we realize that the only logical answer to life is creation-and not accidental random
shuffling.
All of the parts shown, plus many more that there is not enough space to draw, plus the processes of those micro systems that would take volumes to describe, must all be present AT THE SAME TIME in order for the cell to "live".
175 trillion atoms all perfectly arranged, AT THE SAME INSTANT IN TIME... for the purpose of life.
