Signature of Care. xc 
                             6" x 6"  on foam core

 
                         Machines
 
        " Molecular machines haul cargo from one place in the cell
        to another along "highways" made of other molecules, while
        still others act as cables, ropes, and pulleys to hold the cell
        in shape, Machines turn cellular switches on and off,
        sometimes killing the cell or causing it to grow. Solar-powered
        machines capture the energy of photons and store it in
        chemicals. Electrical machines allow current to flow
        through nerves. Manufacturing machines build other
        molecular machines, as well as themselves. Cells swim
        using machines, copy themselves with machinery, ingest
        food with machinery. In short, highly sophisticated molecular
        machines control every cellular process. Thus the details
        of life are finely calibrated, and the machinery of life
        enormously complex."

        zig zig. Michael Behe, pp. 4, 5
       " Darwin's Black Box," New York/Free Press, 1998

             " In ancient times all of biology was a black box, because
        no one understood on even the broadest level how living
        things worked. The ancients who gaped at a plant or
        animal and wondered just how the thing worked were in
        the presence of unfathomable technology. They were
        truly in the dark."
      
        zig zig.  Michael Behe, "Darwin's Black Box," p.7

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             " Neurons are the basic structural components of
        the brain. A neuron is an individual cell, specialized by
        architectural features that enable fast changes of voltage
        across its membrane as well as voltage changes in
        neighboring neurons. Brains are assemblies of just
        such cells, and while an individual neuron does not see or
        reason or remember, brains regularly do. How do you get
        from ion movement across cell membranes to memory or
        perception in brains? What is the nature of neuron-neuron
        connectivity and interactivity? What makes a clump of
        neurons a nervous system?"

        zig zig. Patricia S. Churchland and Terrance J. Sejnowski
        " The Computational Brain,"  MIT Press, 1992, p, 1 Introduction

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           " In every direction the biochemist gazes, as he journeys
        through this weird molecular labyrinth, he sees devices and
        appliances reminiscent of our own twentieth-century world
        of advanced technology. In the atomic fabric of life we have
        found a reflection of our own technology."

        zig zig. Michael J. Denton
      " Evolution: A Theory in Crisis,"  p. 340,  Adler & Adler, 1986

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