A couple of weeks ago we reran the five episode video series titled Secrets of the Cell featuring Lehigh biochemist Michael Behe.
Now episode six has been released. Unlike the earlier episodes which were about five minutes long, episode six is about 17 minutes and explores the fascinating abilities of bacteria, particularly bacteria which can orient themselves along a magnetic field.
What Behe presents is truly fascinating and raises some profound philosophical questions. For example, if Darwinian evolution is true how did such amazing complexity and abilities ever arise just through unguided, purposeless processes that had no goal in mind?
Even if genetic mutation and natural selection could be invoked to explain how a bacterium diversified into numerous different forms, a highly questionable concession, how did the first bacterium or the first living, reproducing cell arise before mutation and natural selection could kick in?
The first cell must itself have been extremely complex, and yet it's construction must've been like the spontaneous construction of a functional computer by a tornado swirling through a parts factory.
If factories such as are shown in the video are impossible without having been designed by an intelligent mind or minds, how could a factory such as is found in each bacterium ever be constructed apart from the engineering of an intelligent agent?
Watch the video and decide for yourself:
