Fine Tuning and Cells

Fine Tuning. Beginning in the early 1900’s,

scientists began to notice some strange,

interesting things about the strength of various

forces and factors in the universe and on earth.

They have been finding, curiously, that if these

were very slightly different, things would not

work out well. In some cases, the universe

would have collapsed (gravity), or everything

on earth would burn, or we could not breathe

(oxygen). In physics they are called “constants.”

Many more of them have continued to be

discovered, in chemistry as well. This is a

problem for anti-design scientists to explain,

in physics and chemistry, even biology.

Some scientists see this fine-tuning as aimed

at making life and humans possible, and even

at making science possible, for example our

very clear atmosphere, making the universe

observable from earth, unusual from planets

generally. Darwinism just insists all is aimless,

random, and undesigned.

Living cells. Beginning in the 1940’s, the facts

about DNA began to be known. As recently as

1953, its double helix shape was discovered, and

since then scientists, using electron microscopes,

have learned much more about what goes on

inside living cells, and they are still learning. Darwin,

in 1969, would have known none of this, and it was

assumed then and for many years there was only

goo in there, dubbed protoplasm. In recent

decades, their extreme complexity, like a busy or

well-controlled factory or city inside each living

cell, is becoming more and more discovered,

using those electron microscopes and new lab

methods. Living cells are so small that 200 of the

smallest or 100 of the largest would fit on a small

pinhead or dot (like this.). Yet DNA, which can be

up to 6 feet long, is all curled up in each, and

uncurls itself to be read for instructions for the

building of many specific proteins needed to

work in there, or for producing new cells. This

happens in even the simplest of cells.

The universe is full of organic molecules but no

way has been discovered or even imagined that

they can make themselves into a living cell, and

new discoveries increasingly make that even

harder to imagine. And Darwinian evolution only

can begin once living cells already exist.

When a human (or animal) body begins from one

cell which splits and splits, these new cells each

decide where to go and what kind of cell to be to

body-build. Eventually, 50 or more trillion of

them make up all the various parts of one human

body, working together, with varying numbers in

every living creature, all extremely complex.

Knowledge of all this is growing faster and faster

in this 21st century. Many school textbooks

haven’t kept up.