"Metabolic processes require complex chains of linked enzymes in order to work properly. The enzyme chains that convert light into electrical signals in the retina and those that synthesise blood clotting factors are two such examples. But these chains have been likened to mousetraps, which only work if all of their components (eg. base, spring, bait holder, trap etc) are all present and properly
assembled. They are ‘irreducibly complex’ in that if we remove any one component the device will not work. How then can such systems evolve in a stepwise fashion if enzyme chains lacking any one component will not actually work and therefore confer no survival advantage on which natural selection can operate?
This is a very difficult question for atheists.
Let’s consider the simplest self-replicating organisms as another example. The operation of neo-Darwinian natural selection depends on the prior existence of entities capable of self-replication. Before the arrival of organisms capable of reproduction this process could not operate.
Viruses and the smallest living bacteria are not in themselves capable of reproducing by themselves but require enzymes only found in more complex organisms to do so.
The smallest known free-living organism, Mycoplasma genitalium, has a genome of 582,970 base pairs corresponding to about 480 proteins. But its complex membranes enclose a system of organelles including ribosomes, carboxysomes and plasmids along with this information loaded DNA. The organised complexity of these most simple of organisms throws into relief the immensity of the task facing naturalistic explanations of how life originated." CMC
We cannot imagine the power of the Almighty;
Job 37:23 NLT
