Friday, March 13, 2020

Secrets of the Cell (Pt. V)

Here's the fifth and final installment in the series of videos titled Secrets of the Cell featuring Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe. In this final episode, Behe argues that the design in nature points powerfully to a designer, an intelligent agent who had purposes in mind in engineering the cell.

The purposeful arrangement of parts is evidence, convincing evidence, that something is designed. We may not know who the designer was, when the designer worked or how the designer built what we see, but the fact that its parts are exceedingly complex and purposeful is an extremely reliable indicator of intentional design:
Together, these five short videos give a very succinct and clear exposition of what's known as Intelligent Design (ID), the argument that there are very compelling reasons to think that life on earth is the product of an incomprehensibly intelligent mind. To see episodes one through four scroll down or click on these links: Episode I; Episode II; Episode III; Episode IV.