EXPLAIN THIS: How To Make A Worm, Without Choosing to Make A Worm

Ever hear of the C Elegans worm? Odds are the answer is no. And you’ve likely never seen one, either, because they are tiny, requiring magnification to see with any detail. C Elegans are Nematoda of about 1/20th of an inch in length.

The C Elegans looks simple — it is, after all, “just” a worm — but the reality is, as Philosopher of Biology Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute notes, every C Elegans requires more than 100 million base-pairs of DNA.

That’s right, 100 million! Not so simple after all. Now, suppose somebody challenges you to make a C Elegans. Nelson explains why doing so requires from start to finish a whole sequence of critically important decisions, or, to put it another way, an Intelligent Designer: