by Phillip Day
Can your body heal you or not? If so, what does the healing?
Nobel Prize laureate, visionary and famous doctor Albert Schweitzer once wrote:
"It's supposed to be a secret but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within."
Thankfully the human body with which God blessed us did not come with a packet of pills with an FDA approval stamp on it. Long before old JD Rockefeller, Morris Fishbein, the American Medical Association, Stephen Barrett, Dr William Jarvis and insurance companies succeeded in convincing us we couldn't do without them, the human body had decent, nutritious food available to it and a T-cell lymphocyte system working away behind the scenes to return us to health if we got sick.
To understand how central diet and lifestyle changes are to a recovery from disease; also to come to terms with modern medicine's creepy hostility to ‘natural healing processes', and why medical doctors can actually be jailed in some countries for treating cancer with nutrition, you have to appreciate some mind-boggling discoveries about the human cell.
For the uninitiated, the cell is the smallest unit of life and you have in excess of 80 billion of these mini-miracles that make you up. Few of us pause to give this micro-world anything like the respect it so richly deserves. What follows will astonish you.
The cell city
Wars are not good for much but they are good for new toys. Following World War II, the cell began to be unlocked with an incredible advancement in technology unavailable in Darwin's day. "What exactly is life?" the age-old question was posed anew, but few were going to warm to the answer.
What confronted scientists down the new electron microscope was not Ernst Haeckel's homogenous glob of undifferentiated protoplasm proposed by Darwinism but a miniaturised city of untold complexity containing molecular machines performing numerous tasks. Professor of Biochemistry Michael Behe writes:
"At the very basis of life where molecules and cells run the show, we've discovered machines, literally molecular machines... There are little molecular trucks that carry supplies from one end of the cell to the other. There are machines which capture the energy from sunlight and turn it into usable energy.... When we look at these machines, we ask ourselves, where do they come from? And the standard answer - Darwinian evolution - is very inadequate in my view."[1]
The flagellum, for example - the ‘tail' which drives the E. Coli bacterium - is essentially an outboard motor. The design comprises a hook with filament or propeller rotating up to 100,000 rpm, a rotor, stator, drive shaft, U-joint, bushings and engine casing (inner and outer membranes).
Its assembly defies any notion of a functional precursor in the evolutionary process. If just one of 40 structural components of the engine is missing, it does not work and the bacterium dies. How then could the flagellum have evolved? It would have to have worked from the very first bacterium for natural selection to become possible thereafter.
The system is said by Michael Behe to be irreducibly complex - in other words, it cannot be simplified further and retain function. Evolutionary biology has to explain how the bacterial flagellum came into being gradually when no advantage or function could be enjoyed at each stage of the evolutionary process until the last of some forty components was installed.
How was this machine built in the first place? Studies of the bacterial flagellum reveal that the parts have to be assembled in a certain order, as with a car engine. Chemicals cannot do this, there has to be information orchestrating the construction. Molecular machines construct the bacterial flagellum in the correct order for it to work. If one piece is mislaid or put in the wrong place the engine won't work, hence ‘irreducibly complex'.
And the machines which make the flagella are in turn made by other machines, which are themselves constructed by further systems which are also irreducibly complex. Such mind-boggling complexity ‘goes all the way down' and has led to an organised re-think into how life is possible. Darwin seemed to anticipate the problem when he wrote:
"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."[2]
Well, guess what, Charlie....
The ‘simple' cell? DNA
Even the simplest cells are now known to be unbelievably complex. Biochemists have tabulated their components - mitochondria, nucleus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, cytoskeleton, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, proteins, fats, enzymes, minerals, and so on - but not the biophysical aspects the cell, which include the information required to assemble and replicate the cell, not to mention the bizarre property of one cell being able to communicate with others over distance.[3] Naval engineering graduate Chuck Missler PhD writes:
"The ‘simple cell' turns out to be a miniaturized city of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design, including automated assembly plants and processing units featuring robot machines (protein molecules with as many as 3,000 atoms each in three-dimensional configurations), manufacturing hundreds of thousands of specific types of products. The system design exploits artificial languages and decoding systems, memory banks for information storage, elegant control systems regulating the automated assembly of components, error correction techniques and proof-reading devices for quality control."[4]
This is what confronted scientists after World War II. Different levels of multi-layered reality were peeled back to reveal a far deeper, astonishing order.
"What are the forces that control the twisting and folding of molecules into complex shapes?" biophysicist F Weinhold wants to know. "Don't look for the answers in your organic chemistry textbook."[5]
Twisting in the wind
At the base of the cell's intelligence is James Watson and Francis Crick‘s deoxyribonucleic acid template, DNA, a double-helical design marvel insurmountable for the evolutionist. Dr Jerry Bergman, professor of science at Northwest College, Archibold, Ohio, describes some informational aspects of DNA which have so boggled scientists:
"At the moment of conception, a fertilized human egg is about the size of a pinhead. Yet it contains information equivalent to about six billion ‘chemical letters'. This is enough information to fill 1,000 books, 500 pages thick with print so small you would need a microscope to read it! If all the chemical ‘letters' in the human body were printed in books, it is estimated they would fill the Grand Canyon fifty times!
This vast amount of information is stored in our bodies' cells in DNA molecules and is coded by four bases - adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine (A, T, G and C). The key to the coding of DNA is in the grouping of these bases into sets that are further sequenced to form the 20 common amino acids. Together, these genetic codes form the physical foundation of all life.
We've all been exposed to the basic concepts of DNA and its double-helix structure in our high school biology classes. Perhaps you remember being taught that cells divide through the ‘unzipping' and subsequent replication of the double helix. In all likelihood, though, the incredible evidence of design in this process was not discussed."[6]
Missler argues that:
"...an elegant design is more than the parts themselves; it involves information. It requires information input external to the design itself - and the deliberate involvement of a designer. The Darwinians cannot explain the origin of life because they cannot explain the origin of information. The technology that provides language - semantics and syntax, for example - is quite distinct from the technology of the ink and paper it may be written on. The physical features of the circuits in a computer provide no clue about the design of the software that resides within it." [7]
Prof. Stephen Meyer states:
"Bill Gates says that DNA is like a software program but much more complex than any we've been able to write. The challenge of the chemical evolutionary theorist is to explain the origin of that biological software without reference to a programmer."[8]
Here's your science project for the week. Make a DNA model. Take two strands of mono-filament fishing line 125 miles long, stick three and a half billion bits of information unique to you on them, entwine them, then roll them up and put them into a basket ball in such a way that several times a day you can remove them, unzip them, copy sections of them, then replace them on spools at three times the speed of an airplane propeller without tearing or tangling the structure. Now do this millions of times a day as the conclusion of your test and ensure it's done flawlessly.
So proteins are formed by assembling amino acids according to the information contained in DNA, yet DNA itself is constructed by proteins using the same three-out of-four, error-correcting digital code. This circularity is analogous to very advanced engineering ‘loop' systems, or complex self-modifying arrays in computer programming, where components are formed by processes which themselves are formed by the components! There has to be a start to the process and an extraneous input of information to kick it all off. Now, if you want to go to Cambridge University, don't ask the following question: Who or what does the starting?
In my book, Origins, I give these subjects a fascinating airing. Don't ask your tutor the following either because they won't know and you'll get told off. Is there a ‘doctor within' as Schweitzer contended? Are we here by chance or design? We live on a planet replete with information coded into the very building blocks of our existence. Where did this information come from and what exactly sustains us at the sub-atomic level? How could something as complex as the human cell, comprised of countless sub-systems, ever have self-organised by the unintelligent, random processes of natural selection?
Pierre-P Grasse, editor of the 28-volume Traite de Zoologie, is a former Chair of Evolution at Sorbonne University and ex-president of the French Academie des Sciences. He writes:
"Directed by all-powerful selection, chance becomes a sort of providence which, under the cover of atheism, is not named but which is secretly worshipped.... To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts."[9]
The deafening silence
Medical science in general, following evolutionary precepts, eschews nutrition and lifestyle changes in favour of man-made drugs because they cannot afford to surrender their sovereignty to the power in the molecules. Yet what defeats them is the explanation for how things heal and what exactly does the organising. To all but the terminally blinkered, the cell is an incredible designed system, a fact attested to even by Darwin's most obdurate fanatics.[10] What is the cell city made of? The food you eat. How important is food then to your overall health? Let's just say that diet is rather more serious than most people imagine.[11]
Doctors are required to swallow the most enormous paradox that food is good enough to keep you alive but it's not good enough to fix you when you're sick - an intellectually inconsistent argument. All these miracle cells in your body are made out of the food you eat and the water you drink. As Dr Andrew Saul reminds, there isn't one cell made out of a drug.[12] Never mind the bafflement of DNA/RNA and getting from amino acids to the first protein, the human cell is regulated by a further universe of minerals, vitamins, enzymes, fats, sugars and hormones which interact in such extraordinary ways, science can only cast up its hands and reach for the Prozac. In fact, they should be stretching for the salad because that's the designed food their designed body requires to make more of them. Accept no substitutes.
So evolution's scorn of ‘the doctor within' is evident today in the medical establishment's arrogant refusal to train its doctors in nutrition. The miracle of every cell in our body comes from what we eat yet, incredibly, drugs, radiation and surgery are the only options for cancer. Millions have died because of this catastrophic wrong turn.[13] Michael Behe summarises:
"The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level itself - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of ‘design!'.... The observation of the intelligent design of life is momentous. The magnitude of the victory, gained at such great cost through sustained effort over the course of decades, would be expected to send the champagne corks flying in labs around the world. This triumph of science should evoke cries of ‘Eureka!' from ten thousand throats, should occasion much hand-slapping and high-fiving, and perhaps even be an excuse to take the day off.
But no bottles have been uncorked, no hands slapped. Instead, a curious, embarrassed silence surrounds the stark complexity of the cell. When the subject comes up in public, feet start to shuffle and breathing gets a bit labored. In private, people are a bit more relaxed; many explicitly admit the obvious but then stare at the ground, shake their heads, and let it go at that."[14]
Fuel for thought
I remember once pulling my Nissan into a petrol station to fill up. I was somewhat preoccupied with my thoughts and proceeded to pump 40 litres of diesel into my gasoline vehicle by mistake. The problem became evident a mile up the road when my car began smoking Brixton to a standstill and some rather alarming knocking sounds came from the sharp end. 24 hours and a £180 towing/repair bill later, I had solidly learned two very valuable lessons: one, that green means unleaded, and two, my vehicle runs better on the right kind of fuel.
And so do you. If you want to enjoy good health, then the right gas has to go in the machine. Step on the mines, smoke, eat junk, get stressed and indulge in all those vain imaginations, and you too can have a $35,000 joint replacement procedure, an amputation, lung or colorectal cancer and a triple heart-bypass operation - all paid for courtesy of the National Health or Blue Shield.
The good life is the natural life. Most of the ills the body faces while living on a good diet are known as ‘self-limiting' because the body takes care of them eventually. You are encased in an error-correcting, self-repairing, self-replicating, carbon-based machine that knows what it's doing on the cellular level. My advice? Have a little faith in your hardware!
Further resources
Origins by Phillip Day
References
[1] Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media, www.illustramedia.com
[2] Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species, 6th ed, New York University Press, p.154
[3] Stone, Robert B The Secret Life of Your Cells, Whitford Press, 1989
[4] Missler, Chuck In the Beginning, there was Information, audio presentation supplementary notes, Koinonia House, www.khouse.org
[5] Lipton, Bruce, The Biology of Belief, Hay House, 2008, p.111
[6] Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, PO Box 6302, Acacia Ridge D.C., Queensland, 4110, Australia
[7] Missler, Chuck, op. cit. pp.9-10
[8] Meyer, Stephen C, ‘The Origin of Information' lecture, www.khouse.org
[9] Grasse P-P Evolution of Living Organisms Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation, Academic Press, New York, NY, 1977, p.107
[10] When pushed by author Ben Stein on a design inference for the origin of life, Dr Richard Dawkins intriguingly states: "It could come about in the following way. It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilisation evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very, very high level of technology, and designed a form of life that they seeded onto, perhaps, this planet. Now that is a possibility, and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer...."
(Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed documentary, Premise Media Corporation, 2008, www.credence.org)
[11] Day, Phillip Origins - The Greatest Scientific Discovery, Credence, 2010
[12] Food Matters DVD, op. cit. www.credence.org
[13] Day, Phillip Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, Credence Publications, 2007; also Day, Phillip The ABC's of Disease, Credence Publications, 2004
[14] Behe, Michael, Darwin's Black Box, op. cit. excerpted p.233
Can your body heal you or not? If so, what does the healing?
Nobel Prize laureate, visionary and famous doctor Albert Schweitzer once wrote:
"It's supposed to be a secret but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within."
Thankfully the human body with which God blessed us did not come with a packet of pills with an FDA approval stamp on it. Long before old JD Rockefeller, Morris Fishbein, the American Medical Association, Stephen Barrett, Dr William Jarvis and insurance companies succeeded in convincing us we couldn't do without them, the human body had decent, nutritious food available to it and a T-cell lymphocyte system working away behind the scenes to return us to health if we got sick.
To understand how central diet and lifestyle changes are to a recovery from disease; also to come to terms with modern medicine's creepy hostility to ‘natural healing processes', and why medical doctors can actually be jailed in some countries for treating cancer with nutrition, you have to appreciate some mind-boggling discoveries about the human cell.
For the uninitiated, the cell is the smallest unit of life and you have in excess of 80 billion of these mini-miracles that make you up. Few of us pause to give this micro-world anything like the respect it so richly deserves. What follows will astonish you.
The cell city
Wars are not good for much but they are good for new toys. Following World War II, the cell began to be unlocked with an incredible advancement in technology unavailable in Darwin's day. "What exactly is life?" the age-old question was posed anew, but few were going to warm to the answer.
What confronted scientists down the new electron microscope was not Ernst Haeckel's homogenous glob of undifferentiated protoplasm proposed by Darwinism but a miniaturised city of untold complexity containing molecular machines performing numerous tasks. Professor of Biochemistry Michael Behe writes:
"At the very basis of life where molecules and cells run the show, we've discovered machines, literally molecular machines... There are little molecular trucks that carry supplies from one end of the cell to the other. There are machines which capture the energy from sunlight and turn it into usable energy.... When we look at these machines, we ask ourselves, where do they come from? And the standard answer - Darwinian evolution - is very inadequate in my view."[1]
The flagellum, for example - the ‘tail' which drives the E. Coli bacterium - is essentially an outboard motor. The design comprises a hook with filament or propeller rotating up to 100,000 rpm, a rotor, stator, drive shaft, U-joint, bushings and engine casing (inner and outer membranes).
Its assembly defies any notion of a functional precursor in the evolutionary process. If just one of 40 structural components of the engine is missing, it does not work and the bacterium dies. How then could the flagellum have evolved? It would have to have worked from the very first bacterium for natural selection to become possible thereafter.
The system is said by Michael Behe to be irreducibly complex - in other words, it cannot be simplified further and retain function. Evolutionary biology has to explain how the bacterial flagellum came into being gradually when no advantage or function could be enjoyed at each stage of the evolutionary process until the last of some forty components was installed.
How was this machine built in the first place? Studies of the bacterial flagellum reveal that the parts have to be assembled in a certain order, as with a car engine. Chemicals cannot do this, there has to be information orchestrating the construction. Molecular machines construct the bacterial flagellum in the correct order for it to work. If one piece is mislaid or put in the wrong place the engine won't work, hence ‘irreducibly complex'.
And the machines which make the flagella are in turn made by other machines, which are themselves constructed by further systems which are also irreducibly complex. Such mind-boggling complexity ‘goes all the way down' and has led to an organised re-think into how life is possible. Darwin seemed to anticipate the problem when he wrote:
"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."[2]
Well, guess what, Charlie....
The ‘simple' cell? DNA
Even the simplest cells are now known to be unbelievably complex. Biochemists have tabulated their components - mitochondria, nucleus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, cytoskeleton, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, proteins, fats, enzymes, minerals, and so on - but not the biophysical aspects the cell, which include the information required to assemble and replicate the cell, not to mention the bizarre property of one cell being able to communicate with others over distance.[3] Naval engineering graduate Chuck Missler PhD writes:
"The ‘simple cell' turns out to be a miniaturized city of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design, including automated assembly plants and processing units featuring robot machines (protein molecules with as many as 3,000 atoms each in three-dimensional configurations), manufacturing hundreds of thousands of specific types of products. The system design exploits artificial languages and decoding systems, memory banks for information storage, elegant control systems regulating the automated assembly of components, error correction techniques and proof-reading devices for quality control."[4]
This is what confronted scientists after World War II. Different levels of multi-layered reality were peeled back to reveal a far deeper, astonishing order.
"What are the forces that control the twisting and folding of molecules into complex shapes?" biophysicist F Weinhold wants to know. "Don't look for the answers in your organic chemistry textbook."[5]
Twisting in the wind
At the base of the cell's intelligence is James Watson and Francis Crick‘s deoxyribonucleic acid template, DNA, a double-helical design marvel insurmountable for the evolutionist. Dr Jerry Bergman, professor of science at Northwest College, Archibold, Ohio, describes some informational aspects of DNA which have so boggled scientists:
"At the moment of conception, a fertilized human egg is about the size of a pinhead. Yet it contains information equivalent to about six billion ‘chemical letters'. This is enough information to fill 1,000 books, 500 pages thick with print so small you would need a microscope to read it! If all the chemical ‘letters' in the human body were printed in books, it is estimated they would fill the Grand Canyon fifty times!
This vast amount of information is stored in our bodies' cells in DNA molecules and is coded by four bases - adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine (A, T, G and C). The key to the coding of DNA is in the grouping of these bases into sets that are further sequenced to form the 20 common amino acids. Together, these genetic codes form the physical foundation of all life.
We've all been exposed to the basic concepts of DNA and its double-helix structure in our high school biology classes. Perhaps you remember being taught that cells divide through the ‘unzipping' and subsequent replication of the double helix. In all likelihood, though, the incredible evidence of design in this process was not discussed."[6]
Missler argues that:
"...an elegant design is more than the parts themselves; it involves information. It requires information input external to the design itself - and the deliberate involvement of a designer. The Darwinians cannot explain the origin of life because they cannot explain the origin of information. The technology that provides language - semantics and syntax, for example - is quite distinct from the technology of the ink and paper it may be written on. The physical features of the circuits in a computer provide no clue about the design of the software that resides within it." [7]
Prof. Stephen Meyer states:
"Bill Gates says that DNA is like a software program but much more complex than any we've been able to write. The challenge of the chemical evolutionary theorist is to explain the origin of that biological software without reference to a programmer."[8]
Here's your science project for the week. Make a DNA model. Take two strands of mono-filament fishing line 125 miles long, stick three and a half billion bits of information unique to you on them, entwine them, then roll them up and put them into a basket ball in such a way that several times a day you can remove them, unzip them, copy sections of them, then replace them on spools at three times the speed of an airplane propeller without tearing or tangling the structure. Now do this millions of times a day as the conclusion of your test and ensure it's done flawlessly.
So proteins are formed by assembling amino acids according to the information contained in DNA, yet DNA itself is constructed by proteins using the same three-out of-four, error-correcting digital code. This circularity is analogous to very advanced engineering ‘loop' systems, or complex self-modifying arrays in computer programming, where components are formed by processes which themselves are formed by the components! There has to be a start to the process and an extraneous input of information to kick it all off. Now, if you want to go to Cambridge University, don't ask the following question: Who or what does the starting?
In my book, Origins, I give these subjects a fascinating airing. Don't ask your tutor the following either because they won't know and you'll get told off. Is there a ‘doctor within' as Schweitzer contended? Are we here by chance or design? We live on a planet replete with information coded into the very building blocks of our existence. Where did this information come from and what exactly sustains us at the sub-atomic level? How could something as complex as the human cell, comprised of countless sub-systems, ever have self-organised by the unintelligent, random processes of natural selection?
Pierre-P Grasse, editor of the 28-volume Traite de Zoologie, is a former Chair of Evolution at Sorbonne University and ex-president of the French Academie des Sciences. He writes:
"Directed by all-powerful selection, chance becomes a sort of providence which, under the cover of atheism, is not named but which is secretly worshipped.... To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts."[9]
The deafening silence
Medical science in general, following evolutionary precepts, eschews nutrition and lifestyle changes in favour of man-made drugs because they cannot afford to surrender their sovereignty to the power in the molecules. Yet what defeats them is the explanation for how things heal and what exactly does the organising. To all but the terminally blinkered, the cell is an incredible designed system, a fact attested to even by Darwin's most obdurate fanatics.[10] What is the cell city made of? The food you eat. How important is food then to your overall health? Let's just say that diet is rather more serious than most people imagine.[11]
Doctors are required to swallow the most enormous paradox that food is good enough to keep you alive but it's not good enough to fix you when you're sick - an intellectually inconsistent argument. All these miracle cells in your body are made out of the food you eat and the water you drink. As Dr Andrew Saul reminds, there isn't one cell made out of a drug.[12] Never mind the bafflement of DNA/RNA and getting from amino acids to the first protein, the human cell is regulated by a further universe of minerals, vitamins, enzymes, fats, sugars and hormones which interact in such extraordinary ways, science can only cast up its hands and reach for the Prozac. In fact, they should be stretching for the salad because that's the designed food their designed body requires to make more of them. Accept no substitutes.
So evolution's scorn of ‘the doctor within' is evident today in the medical establishment's arrogant refusal to train its doctors in nutrition. The miracle of every cell in our body comes from what we eat yet, incredibly, drugs, radiation and surgery are the only options for cancer. Millions have died because of this catastrophic wrong turn.[13] Michael Behe summarises:
"The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level itself - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of ‘design!'.... The observation of the intelligent design of life is momentous. The magnitude of the victory, gained at such great cost through sustained effort over the course of decades, would be expected to send the champagne corks flying in labs around the world. This triumph of science should evoke cries of ‘Eureka!' from ten thousand throats, should occasion much hand-slapping and high-fiving, and perhaps even be an excuse to take the day off.
But no bottles have been uncorked, no hands slapped. Instead, a curious, embarrassed silence surrounds the stark complexity of the cell. When the subject comes up in public, feet start to shuffle and breathing gets a bit labored. In private, people are a bit more relaxed; many explicitly admit the obvious but then stare at the ground, shake their heads, and let it go at that."[14]
Fuel for thought
I remember once pulling my Nissan into a petrol station to fill up. I was somewhat preoccupied with my thoughts and proceeded to pump 40 litres of diesel into my gasoline vehicle by mistake. The problem became evident a mile up the road when my car began smoking Brixton to a standstill and some rather alarming knocking sounds came from the sharp end. 24 hours and a £180 towing/repair bill later, I had solidly learned two very valuable lessons: one, that green means unleaded, and two, my vehicle runs better on the right kind of fuel.
And so do you. If you want to enjoy good health, then the right gas has to go in the machine. Step on the mines, smoke, eat junk, get stressed and indulge in all those vain imaginations, and you too can have a $35,000 joint replacement procedure, an amputation, lung or colorectal cancer and a triple heart-bypass operation - all paid for courtesy of the National Health or Blue Shield.
The good life is the natural life. Most of the ills the body faces while living on a good diet are known as ‘self-limiting' because the body takes care of them eventually. You are encased in an error-correcting, self-repairing, self-replicating, carbon-based machine that knows what it's doing on the cellular level. My advice? Have a little faith in your hardware!
Further resources
Origins by Phillip Day
References
[1] Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Illustra Media, www.illustramedia.com
[2] Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species, 6th ed, New York University Press, p.154
[3] Stone, Robert B The Secret Life of Your Cells, Whitford Press, 1989
[4] Missler, Chuck In the Beginning, there was Information, audio presentation supplementary notes, Koinonia House, www.khouse.org
[5] Lipton, Bruce, The Biology of Belief, Hay House, 2008, p.111
[6] Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, PO Box 6302, Acacia Ridge D.C., Queensland, 4110, Australia
[7] Missler, Chuck, op. cit. pp.9-10
[8] Meyer, Stephen C, ‘The Origin of Information' lecture, www.khouse.org
[9] Grasse P-P Evolution of Living Organisms Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation, Academic Press, New York, NY, 1977, p.107
[10] When pushed by author Ben Stein on a design inference for the origin of life, Dr Richard Dawkins intriguingly states: "It could come about in the following way. It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilisation evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very, very high level of technology, and designed a form of life that they seeded onto, perhaps, this planet. Now that is a possibility, and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer...."
(Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed documentary, Premise Media Corporation, 2008, www.credence.org)
[11] Day, Phillip Origins - The Greatest Scientific Discovery, Credence, 2010
[12] Food Matters DVD, op. cit. www.credence.org
[13] Day, Phillip Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, Credence Publications, 2007; also Day, Phillip The ABC's of Disease, Credence Publications, 2004
[14] Behe, Michael, Darwin's Black Box, op. cit. excerpted p.233
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