Me: Prodigal, that looks complex!
Prodigal: I was trying to get a closer look.
Me: Science and art can be fun to combine together!
Prodigal: Yeah, I guess it could be…kinda like combining a pig and the internet….haha
Me: Yes, like combining the pig and the internet. Today we will talk science.
James Gills, M.D. talks about the science in his book Exceeding Gratitude for the Creator’s Plan
More than four decades ago, I was a medical student at Duke University. Sir John Eccles had recently been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the cell and its electrophysicological trans membrane potential. Eccles had exposed the cell as an active and intricate entity possessing dynamic relationships between a number of cell systems. As a young medical student, I developed a tiny instrument, called a nanopipette, which could measure these electrical potentials across a single cell membrane, as proposed by Eccles. I found that the electrical field the cell generates, as measured by this instrument, can be at times larger than the electrical field found near power lines. As I gazed at the phenomenal activity of life produced by the hundreds of functioning entities within one microscopic living cell, and its ability to integrate perfectly with more than sixty trillion other cells of the human body, my ingrained philosophy of evolution was jolted.
It was becoming more and more illogical to reconcile the odds of “formation by chance” to such a complex organism when the obvious criterion of “design” was necessary to its flawless form and function. During the decades since then, scientists in the world of molecular biology have continued to explore the phenomenal design of the cell, with similar conclusions.
For example, Michael Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box, has concluded that the irreducible complexity of the microscopic , functioning “motor” within each cell preclude the possibility of their evolution. His original definition of “irreducible complexity” is “a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function of the system, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.” In other words, these microscopic entities, comprised of several functioning parts, could not begin to function without all of their parts being present simultaneously. Thus, for one of the parts to have to evolve slowly over time would make the existence of the system impossible.
It is really that much easier to hold to your idea of evolution? God really does exist because only someone as all knowing as Him could have figured all these details!
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
