The Living Cell — Nature's Own Metropolis
Exploring the Intricate Design of the Fundamental Building Block of Life
The living cell is a marvel of biological engineering; a bustling metropolis where countless organic machines work in harmony to sustain life.
Each cell is a self-contained world, brimming with complex dynamics and sophisticated design features that ensure its survival and function.
This section delves into some astounding facts about the cell, highlighting its complexity and the remarkable coordination of its organic machines.
Each individual cell builds and maintains billions of its own microscopic organic machines!
There are around 40 trillion (40 000 000 000 000) cells that make up the average-sized human adult body. And they all function cooperatively for the good of the entire body.
These miniature machines work tirelessly on behalf of the cell.
The cell contains every item of information required to build a complete human.
Each cell includes billions of fully functioning microscopic organic machines (biologists refer to these as "organelles").
Did you know that if you were to unravel a single strand of DNA from the centre of a cell, it would stretch to nearly 2 meters in length?
Astonishingly, if all the DNA from all the cells in one adult human body were laid end-to-end, it would measure at least 74 billion km (46 billion miles).
This is over 600 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. Put another way, this string of DNA would stretch from the Sun to Pluto more than 12x over.
And one more comparison: it would stretch around the earth almost 2 million times!
(Note that estimates on this vary, but the above is a well-supported value on the *low* side — see the supplied links).
And yet, DNA is incredibly thin — 40,000 times *thinner* than a human hair! This makes it a mere 20 atoms wide on average! And the way it is stored (as an efficient double-helix arrangement) within the heart of the cell, is highly impressive; its total diameter when curled inside, is only a 30 millionth (0.00003) of a millimetre!
. . . How would you plan to accomplish this if you were handed the task as a science ptoject? Could you make a two-metre length of thin material and twist it down by efficient packing into a space that small?
Evolutionists believe the living cell was not the product of intentional precise order and arrangement, but that it developed by means of an undirected selection process from a series of immensely long (and fortuitous) contiguous serendipitous events.
When you compare the expertise, preparation, design work, and ingenuity that went into the development by scientists of the impressive Arecibo image on the one hand (see Home page), with the finished product of the complex cell as discussed above . . . what is your opinion?
Would you agree that this also qualifies as intentional order and arrangement?
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