Not Enough Information for Evolution
September 19th, 2008Author: Frank Harber Ph.D
The brain weighs just over three pounds but can do what tons of electrical and electronic equipment cannot. It contains up to 15 billion neurons, each a living unit within itself. Over 100 thousand billion (1014) electrical connections are present which is more than “all the electrical connections in all the electrical appliances in the world.” Every cubic inch contains a minimum of 100 million nerve cells interconnected by 10 thousand miles of fibers to other nerve cells in the brain.
Michael Denton comments:
Even if only one-hundredth of the connections in the brain were specifically organized, this would represent a system containing a much greater number of specific connections than the entire communications network on earth. Because of the vast number of unique adaptive connections, to assemble an object remotely resembling the brain would take an eternity even applying the most sophisticated engineering techniques.9
Could such sophisticated design and engineering have occurred by accident?
The human eye contains 130,000,000 light sensitive rods and cones which generate photochemical reactions that convert light into electrical impulses. An incredible one billion such impulses are transmitted to the brain every second.
The eye can make over 100 thousand separate motions and, when confronted with darkness, can increase its ability to see 100 thousand times. It comes complete with automatic aiming, automatic focusing, and automatic maintenance during one’s sleep. To think that thousands of chance mutations accidentally formed such a structure is impossible.
Also within the evolutionary framework, the eye would have needed to evolve several times in the different kinds of species, such as squids and arthropods. The human eye is so sophisticated that scientists still do not fully understand it. Such an intelligent design points to a Designer.
The cell, which was thought to be of very simple design in Darwin’s day, is now known to be highly complex. A single bacteria cell is only 1/1000 of a millimeter and yet its complexity is comparable to a chemical factory. Functions and tasks are carried out by the thousands.
The cell has energy generators, defensive systems, transport systems, food factories, protective barriers, waste removal structures, and communicational processes both inside and outside its own cell limits. Human beings have up to 100 billion of these self-contained cities.
The complex molecules within even one cell contain a vast information content so great that evolution could not be possible.