What this doctoring implies with respect to the assembly of the first cell is that most of the steps involved must have had a very high likelihood of taking place under the prevailing conditions . Make them even moderately improbable and the process must abort, however many times it is initiated, because of the very number of successive steps involved. The only problem with de Duve's suggestion is that we know of no natural processes that will lead automatically to the complexity of life. Everything we know of life leads to the opposite conclusion. Life is not a product of chance or necessity.
Life is a product of intelligence.
The gospel is as relevant as ever. Lewis and Stanley, 1984. He is the co-author of the book The Natural Limits to Biological Change , served as general editor of Creation, Evolution and Modern Science , and has published numerous journal articles. Dr. Bohlin was named a 1997-98 and 2000 Research Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture. Probe Ministries is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to reclaim the primacy of Christian thought and values in Western culture through media, education, and literature.