Imagine you're on vacation and took the time to stop by a little place called Cellular City. It's easy to see this city keeps pretty busy. Trucks, roads, factories, and employees are hard at work doing what they are supposed to do. You hear the whine of a siren in the distance and see a police car stopping a driver. When you entered the city limits you are greeted by a Cellular City resident who welcomed you and gave you a brochure about the history of the city. As you drive down Main Street you see the public library, the post office, and a large power plant.

As you stop to get a bite to eat, you read the brochure. To your amazement the brochure indicates this city simply materialized in one day. Of course this is hard to believe since you know that any city you have ever encountered had been designed and engineered taking several years to construct.

We would never logically believe that a complex city with its entire infrastructure could ever have occurred on its own. A city becomes a city as a result of individuals planning and then implementing that plan. A city is always designed.

An Internal Cellular City

Imagine the human cell. Each microscopic cell is as functionally complex as a small city. When magnified 50,000 times through electron micrographs, we see that a cell is made up of multiple complex structures, each with a different role in the cell's operation. Using the city comparison, here's a simple chart that reveals the awesome intricacy and design of a typical cell:

CITY                           CELL
Workers                       Proteins

Power Plant                  Mitochondria

Roads                          Actin Fibers, Microtubules

Trucks                          Kinesin, Dynein

Factories                      Ribosomes

Library                         Lysosome

Recycling Center          Chaperones

Police Post Office         Golgi apparatus (1)

"Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world." (2)

MICHAEL DENTON Molecular Biologist (Agnostic), "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 portholes 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.... Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality, the smallest element of which functional protein or gene - is complex beyond our own creative capacities, a reality which is the very antithesis of chance, which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?", EVOLUTION, A THEORY IN CRISIS, 1985, pp. 327-8, 342.

References:
(1) http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/cell-structure.htm
(2) Denton, 250.