Here’s another great animation of life inside the body and the cell, from Hybrid Medical Animations.

They enter the realm of high art, achieving a combination of Truth and Beauty ... - from an unidentified endorsement

The music is well suited too. I wrote to the friend who drew it to my attention,

Medical animations are quite helpful because many people still believe the “brick theory of the cell.” = that the body is built out of cells as a wall is of bricks, with the brick being less organized than the wall.

 But the cell is something between a factory and a supercomputer.

The remarkable thing is that the wretched caterpillar I found on a rosebud and threw to the wolf spider was like that. As is the spider itself.

One realizes that Darwin’s explanation for how all this came to be is not even relevant. Darwin argued that it all happened because the stronger life form survives to breed.

That, of course, is doubtless true, but it is not going to give you a supercomputer! – d.

(Note: The video starts a couple of seconds after you access the page.) Note to teachers: Teachers may wish to point out to students who have questions in this area that scientists in Darwin's and Huxley's day thought that the cell was a very simple unit that related to the body as the brick does to a wall. They thought that the question they needed to answer was, How might a structure like a wall might be built? The question we really need to answer is, how might a structure like a supercomputer be built? You will find the chapter on "specified complexity" in The Design of Life helpful in introducing students to "information" as a science concept.