Physics books may be complicated, but … the objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author. And the author consists of trillions of those cells, many of them different from each other, organized with intricate architecture and precision-engineering into a working machine capable of writing a book…. Each nucleus … contains a digitally coded database larger, in information content, than all 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica put together. And this figure is for each cell, not all the cells of the body put together.
— Richard Dawkins, quoted by Phillip Johnson in his book Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, p. 77
The origin of life could not have occurred by a gradual process but must have been instantaneous [because] every machine must have a certain number of parts for it to function…. Even most bacteria require several thousand genes to carry out the functions necessary for life…. The simplest species of bacteria, Chlamydia and Rickettsia [which are] about as small as it is possible to be and still be living … require millions of atomic parts…. All of the many macromolecules necessary for life are constructed of atoms … composed of even smaller parts … and the only debate is how many millions of functionally integrated parts are necessary…. Continue reading
Intelligent design is modest in what it attributes to the designing intelligence responsible for the specified complexity in nature. Continue reading
One scientist described a single-cell organism as a high-tech factory, Continue reading