There is a common misconception of microbial life as relatively crude and simple compared to cutting-edge human technology. But take the most advanced human factory you can think of, and now imagine that it also can self-replicate, self-repair, and run without human factory workers; then you will begin to get an idea of the sort of “machines” we are talking about in microbiology.

Who or what designed and built these wonders? Was it a purely blind, material process, as modern evolutionary theory holds? Or is there evidence that this sophisticated architecture sprang from some designing intelligence—from an Architect? 

We approach with special care this issue of how cellular complexity arose, aware that modern evolutionary theory is closely associated in many people’s minds with cherished values such as scientific enlightenment, critical reasoning, and educational progress. As a result, when one points out empirical problems with its story of how life’s interconnected complexities arose, one reaction may be scandalized astonishment mixed with incredulity. 

This sense of shock is all the more likely if one has not followed the twists and turns in this scientific discussion in recent........

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