Cell

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How could the cell, in all of its complexities, have evolved?

The cell evolved naturally

But what if the designer did not style each species individually? What if he/she/it merely fashioned the primal cell and then let evolution produce the rest, kinks and all? That is what the biologist and intelligent-design proponent Michael J. Behe has suggested. Behe says that the little protein machines in the cell are too sophisticated to have arisen by mutation -- an opinion that his scientific peers overwhelmingly do not share. Whether or not he is correct, his version of intelligent design implies a curious sort of designer, one who seeded the earth with elaborately contrived protein structures and then absconded, leaving the rest to blind chance.

Unintelligent Design from NY Times Magazine (registration required)  Jim Holt

The cell is too complex to have evolved naturally

The cell is too complex to have evolved naturally [pp 38, 207].

Case for a Creator from   Lee Strobel

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