“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular
biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is
twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough
to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see
would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On
the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port
holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual
stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these
openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and
bewildering complexity.”
― Michael Denton, Evolution: Still A Theory in Crisis (2016)
