Of airports and cells

As I leaned against the terminal wall observing the complexity of the airport's inner workings (and waiting for Andi to exit the ladies' room), the thought of the human cell came to mind. Much like the cell, the airport from a distance looks like an insignificant dot.



From where I stand however it is a completely different story. I think that if Darwin had stood inside the nucleus of a cell, he would have admitted the impossibility of his theory. Micro changes within a specie are obvious, but macro changes from one specie to another (say a land mammal to a whale) are improbable.



See these resources for more information as well as the segment on the complexity of the cell in the movie Expelled by Ben Stein (see video on right), which should be enough to make any evolution scholar rethink this flawed 150 year old theory.



Across the people movers which Camille and Gabe love to ride, and behind the thick soundproof glass, airplanes prepare to take off to distant places.



Justifiably, airports have strict standards of security. Passenger IDs, boarding passes, luggage, carry-on and shoes are closely scrutinized. From the control tower to the beverage cart of the plane, everything is orchestrated with precision, and thankfully nothing is left to chance.  



When Darwin looked at a cell in his day it would have looked like the airport from the air, like a blob of jelly. He simply didn't have the tools to drill into the cell walls and observe the amazing intricacies within. The cell is not simply complicated, but is delicately tuned, contains and exchanges information and is insurmountably complex.  If Jodie Foster in the movie Contact can claim finding intelligence with only the first 20 prime numbers in a row, anyone looking at the sophistication of the cell or one single DNA molecule should honestly do the same.



"Franck, what are you doing?" (Andi coming out of the restrooms.) "Aw nothing. Just looking at things."



Resources:
MIT Molecular Biology Courses on YouTube.
ID - The Future website.
Books on Intelligent Design.