I suppose the systems and machines that you see in these animations could be the result of blind chance acting over a billion years of time, like the fabled monkey at the keyboard typing out a Shakespearean sonnet. On the other hand, I think it takes quite a lot of faith in the power of chance, time and natural selection to believe that such tiny marvels could have been constructed that way. It's the equivalent of believing that a series of hurricanes, stretched over a billion years, could assemble an automobile factory out of the wreckage in a junkyard.
This animation depicts DNA translation and protein synthesis:
This computer simulation describes the complexity of the bacterial flagellum - a molecular motor:
We know that purposeful, intelligent minds can produce wonders like these. We see it happen every day. What we never see happen is the construction of such marvels by blind physical forces. Yet we're asked to accept, actually we're told to accept, that it's much more reasonable to believe what we've never seen happen - the construction of tiny factories by chance and impersonal forces - than to believe what we always see happen - the construction of complex machinery by an intelligent engineer.
It's actually pretty bizarre when you think about it.
RLC
