If there is no origin of the cytoskeleton of cells, then evolution logically cannot be possible.
Cells are the basic unit of life. Since no prokaryotic cell has a cytoskeleton but every eukaryotic cell does, evolution must explain how the cytoskeleton evolved from prokaryotes (bacteria) into eukaryotes (plants and animals). The word cytoskeleton is derived from the word “cyto” which means ‘cell’ and skeleton which means ‘a framework of rigid supporting material’. Yes, even though the cell is essentially a bag of fluid, there are microscopic rigid supporting structures there which make the fluid of the cell more like a gel. Prepare to be amazed at the intricacy of the cytoskeleton.
The cytoskeleton is made up of a network of fibers in the cell fluid. There are many types of these fibers like microtubules (tiny tubes), microfilaments (tiny ropes or lattices) and intermediate filaments (larger ropes or lattices). Each of these performs different functions. Some of these give the cell its shape and prevent the cell from getting compressed and provide for mechanical support and stabilization. Others are involved as signals that transmit information from one part of the cell to another. Some can contract and allow the cell to move. Some are used for what is called ‘phagocytosis’ where the cell takes in some ‘food’ from outside the cell. Some even separates the DNA during cell division. Some provides a scaffold to organize the many parts (called organelles) within the cell. Others are used as a template to make a cell wall. These are just seven of the functions of the cytoskeleton. However, the most amazing feature is that the cytoskeleton is constantly being destroyed and remade!
The cytoskeleton is not made and stable. It is in constant change depending on what the cell needs. As an example, if the cell makes a protein that needs to get out of the cell, the cell will put the protein inside a separate sac inside the fluid/gel of the cell and then the cell will assemble a cytoskeleton, which is like a track, to move this sac to the cell membrane to export it to outside the cell. So the cell knows it needs to get the protein out of the cell and then will make a track out of fibers and tubules from the sac to the cell membrane. This track did not exist until it was needed to exist, and this is just to move this one sac. Then once the sac is delivered along the track to the cell membrane the track made up of the cytoskeleton will disassemble and is gone. It literally disappears and the parts that made that track will be used to make another track for something else, or can be used as a scaffold for support or any of the other seven uses of the cytoskeleton that may be needed by the cell next.
This is called self-organizing. The cytoskeleton organizes itself into whatever is needed. In concert with this formation of a previously nonexistent track that only exists as long as it is needed is the use of molecular motors that will move the sac (other organelles) along the track. These motors were not on the track before, because the track did not exist, but once it formed the motors were brought there to move things along the track after the tract was made until the delivery is done and then the track vanishes again. The cytoskeleton appears, then disappears, then appears again whenever it is needed. Always changing, always right on time, always perfectly forms for the never ending new conditions that have immediate needs for the cytoskeleton. Some call this ability of the cytoskeleton to self-organize miraculous, but evolution has no miracles, so this needs to be explained by some other process in evolution.
Good luck trying to explain how all of this complexity happens with evolution! The evolutionary scientists who are experts in what we know about the cytoskeleton published the article, “Origin and evolution of the self-organizing cytoskeleton in the network of eukaryotic organelles” in the peer reviewed journal, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Here the cytoskeleton is described as possessing “bewildering structural and dynamic complexity”. That is quite revealing that evolutionary biologists are “bewildered” by the complexity of the cytoskeleton. They have absolutely no idea how this could have come into existence through evolution. They can only hope that “advances in (computer) modeling and comparative genomics” can “hold promise of a better understanding of the evolution of the self-organizing cytoskeleton”.
Refuting the claims of evolutionists is like taking candy from a baby. It is ridiculously simple. Over and over evolutionists are publishing in their own scientific journals how much they cannot explain. This is not me twisting the language of the other scientists. Look it up for yourself. They are “bewildered” at the complexity of life, and cling to a “promise” of “better understanding” once we have more “advances” in computer modeling. It seems that we are waiting for better computer models and until then there is no expectation that there will be an answer. I think our computers are pretty good. The ability of our computers or computer programs is not the reason the self organizing cytoskeleton of eukaryotes cannot be explained.
This language obviously means they do not understand and cannot explain it. This is not an isolated example of some rogue scientist, this is consistent language used in evolutionary journals. This is just one more example of all of the multiplied many facts of the existence of life that cannot be explained by evolution.
Evolution cannot be true if there is no origin of the cytoskeleton because it is a necessary condition. Even though it is necessary, it is a published fact in peer reviewed scientific journals that the origin of the cytoskeleton is unexplained.
You do not need to be a computer scientist to see that this does not compute:
If there is no origin of the cytoskeleton of cells, then evolution logically cannot be possible.