Is simple one-celled life really simple?
Years ago, microscopes weren’t nearly as good as they are now. The cell used to look like a blob and it was easy to think that a blob could come about by accident. We have better microscopes now. According to Michael Behe, a biochemist, a cell is run like a really a big city with freeways to deliver nutrients and garbage to their destinations. For more information, see his book Darwin’s Black Box on My Reading List page. Recently some scientists who are not creationists say they don’t believe that life came from non-life. They have developed a new theory, the Intelligent Design Theory. Michael Behe is one proponent. He is not a Biblical creationist BUT he still thinks the cell is just too complicated to be an accident. The black box in the title of his book refers to the cell. There is an illustration of a Bacterial Flagellum on the front flap of “Darwin’s Black Box”. This is the little gizmo that turns the little hairs on a bacterium so it can move around. The parts are all labeled, b
