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The Complexities of Life Explored
Consider a living being's ability to indulge in a wide variety of activites, you would be stunned. However, if you think this is mind-boggling, how about creating an animal with only the body's simplest constituents, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, calcium etc. The fact is even the best scientist in the world is totally helpless when trying to recover a dead animal.
However, the natural world does not have any advantages which humans bring to the present world. There is no goal, no purpose and no guide. But even with the accumulated knowledge, experiences and machinery, we are still overwhelmed with complexities despite the fact that we are not starting from absolute zero (as in starting with nothing) with many life examples to scrutinize.
All living organisms are complex. Even the simplest bacteria, with its millions of complexities makes a space-ship look rather low-tech. However, none of these surpass human being's complexity, with each person being made up of trillions of cells and molecules. The brain itself is already filled with cells forming trillions of connections.
The design of the human brain, having 100 million interconnected nerve cells is what truly mystifies us. The human brain has even been crowned the most complex and orderly arranged matter in the entire universe. The human brain, when used more, gets better every day, hour, minute and second. Insect brain capabilities are even more fascinating. Imagine that little tiny speck enabling the organism to conduct the routine daily activites. The butterfly constanly makes long distance navigation relying on only its tiny brain. This certainly puts computers and avionics to shame.
The bodies of animals are marvellous because time and chance could never produce such complex machinery. The parts which make up this machinery can never form themselves up for these machines even with the physical properties of matter. Yet, life is so much more complex than any of these machines. Life appears so wondrous because we could never create another of these complex machines. Even scientists get mystified when they study the complexities of life.
Even if nature originally produced the proteins and enzymes
required, the job of creating living things would not have been possible. It takes more
than what one thinks to create life, just as there is a difference between constructing a
skyscraper and building the bricks for it. 
Today, most scientists are convinced that life could never have come into being without some form of highly intelligent designer.