Yes, cells are amazing little things, but that is because they have 4 billion years of evolution behind them. Life on Earth began about 4 billion years ago (4,000,000,000 years). This is such an enormous duration of time that neither you nor I are capable of truly comprehending how huge it is.
If you saw a painting, you might be impressed by how skillfully it was painted. However, if you later discovered that the artist took 50 years to make the painting, that is not so impressive anymore. If humans are a painting, then they are a painting which took 4 billion years to paint. Considering how long life has been around on Earth, the complexity of humans today should come as no surprise.
The real problem is that when people don't understand something, instead of being honest and simply admitting that they don't understand it, they would prefer to claim that it is the work of god.
The ancient Greeks believed that the winds were controlled by gods. They had Boreas (god of the north wind), Zephyrus (god of the west wind), Notus (god of the south wind), and Eurus (god of the east wind). Today, we know that wind is actually air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure, and the suggestion that the wind is the work of gods is laughable.
In the same way that we now snicker at the ancient Greeks for thinking that the wind was the work of gods, in the near future everyone will snicker at the people of today for thinking that cells are the work of a god. In fact, it is already happening now. Already geneticists and biologists are starting to unravel the mysteries of cells and discovering that they are not so inexplicable after all. The suggestion that life is the work of a god is complete unadulterated nonsense.
"The God hypothesis is rather discredited. [...] Archbishop Ussher claimed the world was created in 4004BC. Now we know it is 4.5 billion years old. It's astonishing to me that people continue to accept religious claims."
(Dr Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.)
"[Religious explanations are] myths from the past. Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours."
(Dr James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.)
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