(April 6, 2016 at 8:30 pm)pocaracas Wrote:Don't blame cancer on incompetent design. Cells have many mechanisms to prevent cancer, but we are pumping our environment and bodies full of carcinogens. It's our own fault. If I smashed your laptop with a bat, you would not complain that it was poorly/incompetently designed.(April 6, 2016 at 7:56 pm)AAA Wrote: Cellular biology is endlessly elegant and screams designer.
No...
If there was a designer, it was an incompetent one.
A designer which can be explained away by evolution.
Go tell that to a 5 year old cancer patient on chemo! "hey kid, god designed you just like that!"
Biological cells, most likely, did not originate with all the complex structures we see today. Heck.... even they protective cover which makes us call them cells must have come after the first self-replicating biological entities were around.
And yeah they must not have been as complex according to your worldview, but that is speculating beyond observable evidence. Cells need hundreds of proteins to function in every living system that has ever been observed. Also the membrane does a lot more than protect it.