Intelligent Design

-It drives me crazy to see how something like evolution is tramped around as the science that disproves God or something. Dictator states have shaped eugenics policies around it;  dubious "creation" museums try to tell you that you will go to hell if you accept it.  There is quite a bit of controversy behind such an overly simplistic theory.

"The Order that Arises in a Universe of Entropy"               -Fortscribe orginal done by Perankhscribe

In order for life as we know it to exist, a number of enzymatic processes must work in tandem and be regulated.  Enzymes are extremely large by chemistry standards - they are structures that are composed of individual molecules known as amino acids.

These amino acids come together with each other to form unique chains (what scientists call peptide chains.) These chains fold and arrange themselves in ways that allow an enzyme to function.  Consider actin, a relatively simple enzyme needed for muscle movement.

Each little turn in each of those helices consists of several amino acids. (Usually about three per turn.)  So imagine how many amino acids must be in a structure like this.  Hundreds... Thousands?  Guess what.  This is just one "subunit" of a larger actin molecule.

These actin molecules come together to form even larger structures.  In order for a muscle to contract however, one needs more than actin.  One needs other structures like myosin and tropomyosin.

These structures need to arrange themselves even further in ways that allow productive contraction. You may already be familiar with the term sacromere. 

Now you kind of have a little idea of what the engine of a muscle fiber looks like, but you really don't know how it is turned on or controlled...  That looks even more crazy.

Each of those bubbles represents some kind of peptide, enzyme or other structure that takes part in the massive machine that is man.  All of this before one even gets to questions like how the nervous system controls your muscles.   

The details that could be added to this picture seem overwhelming.   I could spend the rest of my life elaborating to great lengths about the various processes we have elucidated thus far about life and even that would be a drop in the bucket.

In physical chemistry there is a form of statistics that concerns itself with the probability of molecular events occurring. The amount of order inherent to the systems above is just so staggering that it defies simple random selection.  Darwinian evolution does not apply well to simple molecular selection.  Even if there is a system of survival of the "fittest proteins," it is difficult to see how all of this just fell together to form a working organism.  You can shake a bag of bolts and rubber for a zillion years and not get a car.  Life is a million times more complex than a car.

In my humble opinion, the origin of life must have relied on some very unique circumstances.

 That such order arouse in a universe of entropy is a miracle.  The number of factors necessary for chemistry like this to occur is similarly staggering. Did you know that Crick (You know of Watson and Crick) believed that DNA was so complex, that in his book, Life Itself, Crick proposed that the basic genetic structure of bacterial DNA was seeded from outer space.  In a sense, some might say that Crick believed in aliens as the origin of life.  (That doesn't really anwser the question though does it?)

Is it crazy to believe that there might be something higher than us in the universe? Is it crazy to think that maybe the universe has a fundamental order that goes beyond our understanding?