Not everybody has the technical capability to understand the details of Molecular Biology. But a picture is said to be worth a thousand words. And a group led by Harvard University Professor Robert Lue has created an amazing animated video called The Inner Life of the Cell. This stunning video is truly worth many thousands of words.
In December 2006, ABC News produced a short news segment (2:38 in length) about the Inner Life of the Cell. The narration given by Lue in this news report is suitable for non-technical audiences, as is a longer 8-minute video narrated by the Medical Animator David Bolinsky. About 8 minutes into the Bolinsky video, an amazing cellular robot carrying a sack of newly manufactured proteins appears.
Bolinsky notes that, “Each of us has about 100,000 of these things [a kinesin protein is the cellular robot] running around right now inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you’re not really intrinsically doing nothing.” This is one of many examples of the molecular machines that allow living cells to perform their complex functions.
Another example is the Bacteria Flagellum. Professor Keiichi Namba leads a group of scientists that has deciphered how this amazing motor/propeller system operates at the molecular level. Namba’s group has produced a video that suggests the study of this amazing molecular machine may aid scientists in the fight against Global Warming.
The first 3 minutes of this video describe how this microscopic motor has the same basic structure as a man-made motor, but with a much higher efficiently. And unlike man-made motors, the Bacteria Flagelum self-assembles (a visual representation of this process starts at about 2:00 into the video). The rest of the 30 minute video describes the technological effort needed to decipher this complex process.
A major reason many advocates for Intelligent Design are skeptical of the Fact of Evolution is that it doesn’t provide details about how such complex machines arose in a step-by-step fashion. All the Theory of Evolution does is claim that a long series of small changes in copying DNA streams (Genetic Mutations) was guided by a process of Natural Selection to create this complexity.
In technical courses at a university, it is common to joke about “difficult proofs being left to the graduate student.” Perhaps some bright graduate students will eventually supply the detailed proof that Evolutionists take for granted. But facts are based on what we know now, not on what we may know in the future. Until that time, the Fact of Evolution will always have its skeptics.
