Have you ever had a nightmare? I think we all have. The one good thing about a nightmare is that when we wake up from one it is essentially over and we realize that it was only a fictitious dream and not reality. For those who believe in Darwinian evolution their biggest nightmare is trying to explain how the human cell could have come into being by chance and natural selection.
I believe that there are three main reasons the nightmare never ends for the evolutionist when he tries to discuss the human cell.
Reason 1 – It is a miracle!
The late biochemist, Michael Denton, shares an important insight here when he stated: “The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.”1 The word miracle is not something that is used by proponents of Darwinian evolution. They, instead, use the word chance as the driving mechanism that brought about the human cell.
We know from the Bible that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and of course the human cell out of nothing. This greatest of all miracles explains how something as infinitely complex as a human cell could have come into existence. Quite frankly only an infinitely powerful and creative God could have fashioned something so complex as a human cell out of nothing. To believe that random molecules could collide and form a human cell is sheer madness. And my friends God does not use chance to create anything. In fact, chance is not a creative force at all. And since evolutionists do not like to use the word miracle, they are left with chance as the only other option. And if our brightest scientists cannot even create the simplest cells, with all their intellect, it is absolutely absurd to imagine that blind random chance could.
Reason 2 – DNA
In order to have life we need the basic building blocks of a cell – protein molecules. And here is where the rub comes in for our evolutionist friends. For we know that DNA relies on proteins for its production but proteins rely on DNA for their production. So, the question arises which came first, proteins or DNA? Clearly one must already be in existence for the other to be made. This impossible dilemma cannot be solved through man made logic but only by an all-powerful God who created both DNA and proteins together. I ask you to ponder your choices.
Reason 3 – Cell Differentiation
When you were conceived you started your journey in life as a single cell. By the time nine months passed, your original cell at the point of birth had multiplied by a factor of thirty trillion. While science can name the different parts of each type of cell as well as understand something of cellular duplication, it is at a complete loss to describe how your one original cell knew how to form heart cells and brain cells. Just listen to how apologist Frank Turek describes this amazing mystery: “As if they had minds of their own, your new cells-some of them eventually reproducing in the womb at a rate of more than 100,000 per second-knew where to go and what to do in order to become each of your major organs. How did certain cells “know” to become heart cells, while others “knew” to become brain cells? There is no known material explanation for their goal-directedness.”2
In closing Frank Turek shares the Darwinian nightmare dilemma as follows: “Scientists of Darwin’s day saw the cell as little more than a simple blob of protoplasm. They thought natural laws could perhaps create such a cell. But the science of today shows that the cell is a world of astonishing complexity containing all sorts of microscopic machinery and thousands of pages of genetic programming. If atheists could offer a naturalistic explanation for this, they would. Instead, they can do little more than belch insults or offer unsupported speculations that, even if true, do nothing to solve the problem.”3
1 Living Cells Quotes (5 quotes) (goodreads.com)
2 Charlie H. Campbell, Apologetics Quotes (Carlsbad, California: The Always Be Ready Apologetics Ministry, 2020), p. 56.
3 Charlie H. Campbell, Apologetics Quotes (Carlsbad, California: The Always Be Ready Apologetics Ministry, 2020), p. 59.