Dr. Stephen Meyer

When you look at these things, it looks like something Mazda designed, right?

So you start removing any of the core parts of that system.

And the whole thing stops working.

It doesn't work.

So how are you going to build that up gradually?

The natural selection selects for functional advantage.

But if there's no functional advantage until you get the whole set of those parts working in close coordination, there's nothing to select.

There's nothing that will be preserved and passed on to the next generation.

So you effectively have to build the whole thing all at once or not at all.

And building the whole thing all at once strains credulity because it places an enormous burden on purely random processes.

Yeah, the probabilities just continue to get smaller and smaller and smaller.

We didn't even know that they existed.

It's like somebody's trying to get our attention.

Oh, we've made something like that.

I had a – we had a Microsoft – one of their elite architect-level programmers working in our lab in Redmond.

He granted his time to us for two years, took some time off of Microsoft, and he wrote 10,000 lines of code to help us simulate what's called the gene expression system, or sometimes called the system for protein synthesis, how the digital code in the DNA works.

directs the construction of the proteins and protein machines, the machines that the proteins make.

Because each of these, like the flagellar motor or the ATP synthase, the little turbine, they're made of proteins that have very specific shapes that fit together with other proteins with very specific shapes.

So they're like mechanical parts of an integrated system.

And so he wrote