| The most powerful information system in the known universe is in every living thing.
- - Scientists have discovered that the living cell contains codes of information in the form of precisely arranged molecules of DNA, RNA, and proteins. The system that uses these codes is greater than any other information system that humans have ever found or created.
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| Coded information requires intelligence.
- - Intelligence is the only known cause of codes. Intelligence is also the only known cause of new functional information. So, the one and only known source of codes and new functional coded information is intelligence.
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| The living cell is full of highly advanced “molecular machines.”
- - These amazing molecular machines do the building, fixing, and cleaning needed by a living cell. Motors, transportation vehicles, roadways, scissors and knot releasers, recycle grinders, energy factories, and many more. These astonishing machines are highly-organized and sophisticated to the highest degree, and only someone assuming life was caused by intelligence could have guessed the machines were there.
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| Sophisticated machines require intelligence.
- - In every case that we know where an intricate machine came from, it always comes from intelligence. The only known cause of intricate machines is intelligence. So, the one and only known source of advanced machines is intelligence.
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| Scientists talk about life as if it was designed.
- - Articles about life in scientific journals use the language of engineering and technology. Also, the use of these words is increasing as scientists learn more about life.
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| Natural laws are fine-tuned to allow for life.
- - All of the dozens of forces in the universe, including gravity and electromagnetism, are just the right strength to allow life to exist. If any of them were slightly different, life would not exist. The best explanation for the forces being finely tuned is that an intelligence assigned the values for a purpose.
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| Could these facts indicate that life and the universe had an intelligent origin?
- - Scientists and scholars who are open to ID think the answer could be ‘yes’. Since there are strong facts that suggest ID is correct, many think that ID is a concept worth taking seriously. A study of patterns in nature that are best explained by intelligence is called for.
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