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More and more evidence that God designed living
things is constantly turning up as microscopes and
methods are being perfected.
Among the most amazing of the recent wonders are little
machines called �molecular machines,� or �molecular
motors.� They are real machines found inside each cell of
every living thing. Their tiny moving parts are individual
molecules designed to fit together and work together.
They do much of the work of every cell. Many people who
want to fire their Creator don�t know about them yet, but
no cell could live without them. They are so precise and

efficient that scientists working in nanotechnology, the field of the very small, are working hard trying to
copy some of them. So you won't think I am making this up, I will mention the one that you may have
heard about: a miniature motor which spins with almost perfect efficiency at speeds variously reported
from 17,000 to 100,000 RPMs. Like a boat motor, it propels its owner, a single cell, through the water.
Scientists are discovering molecular machines in large numbers, but the ones I am interested in are
those that are absolutely essential to life. Since all known machines are made by intelligent designers,
the fact that there are many machines that no cell could live without is evidence that living things had an
intelligent designer.

Pumps:
Cells would just be loose goo dissolving into the water if they were not enclosed by membranes. That
presents a problem: Even the simplest cell must have nutrients if it is to live, but nutrients are too large
to pass through a cell's membrane. God�s solution: the membranes of even the simplest cells contain
machines: pumps made out of several different proteins folded into complex shapes to work together.
They recognize and pass the right nutrients through the membrane and into the cell. A cell without
machines that pass nutrients through its membrane would starve to death.
These pumps, like all molecular machines, are made according to intelligent plans written in the cell's
information. They allow cells to take in nutrients which are otherwise too large to pass through the
membrane. If the pumps were not already present and functioning in evolution's famous "first cell," it
would have starved to death. These pumps, along with most other things in cells are made of proteins,
so without the machines that make proteins, no cell can live! Pumps that recognize and pass nutrients
into the cell don�t happen by accident, nor could they! People who lead our students to believe that a
first cell was put together by random chemical reactions with no intelligent input deceive the students.

Where do proteins come from?
All the other machines we know of: cars, wheelbarrows, etc., are always made by
intelligent beings. With that in mind, let�s take the next step in our consideration of
the machines in living creatures. The parts of these molecular machines are made
of DNA, RNA and proteins. These basic chemical molecules of life are so complex
that none of them are ever formed in nature except by already living cells.
Evolutionists often try to make this seem unimportant by pointing out simpler things
that will form outside of cells: Amino acids, water, and crystals are most often
mentioned. Their conclusion? "Cells were formed without a creator." That is as
foolish as pointing out that aluminum ore forms in nature and thinking you have
explained airplanes and helicopters. Simple chemicals do form by normal chemical
combinations outside of cells. DNA, RNA, and real proteins do not!

Proteins are made by living cells in molecular machines called ribosomes. The ribosomes we know
about are composed of three RNA molecules and around 50 protein molecules folded to fit and work
together. They line up the left handed amino acids that will make up each protein in the order
specified by the cell's DNA, then the machines link the amino acids together one after another like
links in a chain. When finished, most proteins contain from 100 to a few thousand amino acids chosen
from 20 different varieties. As each protein is being completed, an address label is added to guide it
to the specific place where it can do the job for which it was made. During the trip, it is folded (often
helped by another machine called a chaperone) so that when the new protein arrives, it will fit very
precisely with the other molecules with which it must work. A cell�s function be impaired or destroyed if
its proteins are notmade correctly, addressed correctly, and folded to fit, in addition, mistakes often
cause genetic diseases. Proteins are the main ingredients of living things, so no cell could live without
the machines that produce its proteins.