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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/basics-of-life/
“What emerged was a picture of surprising complexity. M. pneumoniae needs just eight gene “switches” to control its molecular activities, compared to 50 in E. coli — a number so low that it implies other, as-yet-unknown regulatory processes. Groups of genes thought to work in unison did so only intermittently. At other times they worked in isolation, or in unexpected configurations.”
What continues to emerge is a picture of surprising naivety
on the part of scientists who keep expecting life to be simpler than it is.
Life designed by God is going to be far more complex than we can imagine. All the criticism of God for *incompetently designing* this universe and life in it is ludicrous. To think that we know more than God about how He should have done things is the height of arrogance, especially considering the level of understanding of our world. We’ve just begun to scratch the surface.
Of course, it’s no surprise that scientists expect everything to be simpler than it really is. They must. It fits far better to a no-God paradigm, and the more complex the universe and life, the less rational it is to deny the need for a creator.
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