There are many problems with the naturalistic view of life. For instance, naturalism boasts the process of natural selection, in which traits that aid in sufficiency and survival are selected and carry on generation to generation. Naturalists believe that this can account for not only the diversity of life but the continuation of cells, proteins, plants, and animals. According to this view, mutations keep everything moving and progressing. However, problems arise when looking at the makeup of a simple protein. In order for a protein to work properly, the DNA must be assembled just so and the amino acids fit together perfectly like a puzzle. How could naturalism, which cannot account for the origin of the machine we call DNA have spontaneously generated such a system that occurs billions of times a second in every human body? Herein lies the problem: naturalism cannot account for the origin and true complexity of a simple protein without a creator.
Secondly, the bacterial flagellum clearly discounts the naturalistic view of life, favoring intelligent design instead. The flagellum is a power house with a motor made up of intricate parts that must be placed just so and in a specific order in order for the flagellum to complete its tasks inside the body. How could such an intricate and powerful little bacteria be present if an intelligent creator had not created it? Naturalism proves impossible here too, as it cannot account for complex organisms such as the flagellum.
Lastly, a large problem comes with the idea of spontaneous generation. Naturalism uses this to explain the origin of everything: from the earth to the cell of a living being. Supposedly, the first cell came to be in a pile of primordial goop. However, what naturalism fails to point out, is the extreme probability of this actually occurring. To date the current probability is 10 to the 100 billionth power. It is in fact more probable that you and your entire extended family would win the lottery every week for your entire lives than for a single cell to emerge from essentially nothing.
Although scientists cling to the naturalistic worldview, favoring natural selection and spontaneous generation, one thing remains true: we have all the evidence we need that God is our intelligent designer, just look at the complexity of life!
