Matthew McLean

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

“The fool says in his heart, there is no God.”
Instead
“We are fearfully and wonderfully made”:

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

The most detailed 3D reconstruction of a cell ever created.

Blows my mind every time.

But what exactly are we looking at here?

The average human cell contains:

~ 15-20 total distinct organelle types, totalling between ~1-10 million working together per cell.

All these nano-machines in the cell are made up of proteins.

~ 8,000-10,000 distinct types of unique proteins, adding up to between 40 million - 10 trillion total proteins making up all those cellular systems.

~ 10,000 - 15,000 distinct types of RNA shuttling information around the cell, totalling up to ~10 million RNA molecules moving around the cell simultaneously.

~ Billions of Lipid molecules packed together into the cell membrane, which is also packed tightly with millions more protein-based nano-machines.

And let's not forget billions of lines of DNA information to build and run it all.

That's TRILLIONS of of individual molecular pieces working together to make a single cell function.

That means there is more complexity in a single cell than humanity's largest cities.

And people still believe this wasn't Divinely Designed.

This is God's Glory on Display.

But to make the point.

A cell couldn't have evolved from some nebulous simpler "protocell" because even the simplest cells still require massive complexity.

The "simplest" cell ever created was engineered by scientists knocking out pieces of a functional cell until it stopped functioning.

Here is what they found is the absolute necessary minimal requirements of a cell to function:

- Over ~531,000 lines of coded DNA information

- 473 total genes to create hundreds of unique protein products (they later added 19 genes back in because the cell was so weak)

- Hundreds of thousands of total proteins all working together

- Extensive regulatory networks guiding all these interactions

If the cell doesn't have all these systems in place, from the start...
it doesn't live.

Cell rely on an intricate network of complex systems, which are themselves built from complex interconnected pieces woven together into an incomprehensibly complex web of functionilty.

Only intelligence has ever been observed creation vast interconnected systems like this.

Life was clearly Created.

It couldn't happen any other way.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@danitreweek Thanks Dani. It’s always best to have as much context as possible. Just wanted to share with others that there was a little bit more to it than the churchleaders headline: Woman on Church Podcast is a ‘Problem’…
I expected you would have gone deeper 😉

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@danitreweek Link to source transcript https://t.co/IbuMgaOdcY

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@lsanger Also https://t.co/etTsT4PAIs “The egg does this by using its zona pellucida (a thick protein coat that protects the egg cell) to chemically grab onto sperm, test it, and then reject or admit its DNA into the egg.”

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@lsanger Here’s a research publication about this from 2020 https://t.co/hsa2EvJtvq

Given that certain IVF methods override whatever genetic fitness screening the embryo performs, it would be good to know more about it.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

It’s Easter Week. The most important week in history!

Don’t let people bog you down with a-historical silliness in the midst of focusing on what it’s all about.

See the graphic here https://t.co/kUCxVXZrYa

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@JennaFights4You Luke 2:21

And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@GhostOfFrederic @EK94227386 @SWHobbyFarm @JaneCaro And before that, at the very beginning, a single cell with all of the unique instructions defining who he or she is, as inherited from his or her parents. Instructions / words that were first conceived from the Creator, spoken and passed through generations.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@EK94227386 @SWHobbyFarm @JaneCaro After 8 weeks of development, the human embryo is called a fetus.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@Oranguchan15411 @JaneCaro Some rights are not from government, they are inalienable - because they are from God and who He is and who He made us to be - in His image.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@JaneCaro There is no human right to kill another innocent human being. We are all made from cells. Abortion is not an argument in isolation. Sex is powerful, it requires responsibility. The more innocent and vulnerable need more healthcare, not less.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@IanCopeland5 @NextScience It is consistent with life being created by God.
Irreducibly complex life processes that are mathematically not possible by natural means require faith to believe God did not create them. We cannot experiment on God. Science has its limits. Revelation trumps science.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@Protestia Craig chooses to believe a “could” over the inerrant word of God!
Where does this madness stop? Does he believe all of the godless origin accounts right to the big bang? He must know atheists have no choice but naturalistic origin accounts. Christians are not to follow this trap.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@EddyEkofo @gavinortlund Whilst confused about the goodness of God’s original creation (death before Adam’s sin) due to accepting atheistic ages, Spurgeon was later very against evolution.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@chickensubject @gavinortlund @EddyEkofo Oh definitely. That God has told us we can know Him gives us great confidence in our ability to know (epistemology). We need to be humble though, especially about the past. Job 38, particularly verse 4.

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@chickensubject @gavinortlund @EddyEkofo It depends on what is meant by scientific. The experimental method works well for operational science (what is created). Historical/Origin sciences are categorically different due to limited observation and our inability to experiment. God’s Word is categorically more trustworthy

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@gavinortlund @manichaeanincel @EddyEkofo A good example of the Christian evacuation from society. God is God of all, including history and science. Defining historical sciences as naturalism is setting onto the path to atheism…

[Matthew McLean @getintheark]

@albertmohler A major influencer on the Ehrlich's was Kingsley Davis. This was a fascinating recent episode about him: Black Swans (Part 1) The Population Bomb by Matt Bevan
https://t.co/GAQA8X2AV5