a b Eugenio, Monica (December 25, 2019). " 'Miracle In Cell No. 7' A Surprise Hit On Opening Day Of The Metro Manila Film Festival". Cosmopolitan . Retrieved January 1, 2020. Ji, Yong-jin (13 May 2013). "RYU Seung-ryong Wins Grand Prize at Baeksang Arts Awards". Korean Film Council . Retrieved 2013-05-14. The Miracle blew me away, almost like a religious experience. I have researched and written about ID for 15 years but as a former victim of 30 years of intense materialist propaganda, I still habitually think in ways that originate in that worldview. Denton shows that an intelligent designer already had living things in mind when creating the universe with all its differing elements. Because I had always viewed matter as some random cosmic product, which the designer eventually used for building living things, this came as a revelation to me.

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Of course, nature’s fitness for the cell is not the same as its fitness for human biology. There are many additional elements of fitness in nature which appear to be specifically tailored for beings of our biochemical and physiological design. Some of these have been discussed in Fire-Maker, The Wonder of Water, and Children of Light. But without the astonishing abilities of cells to migrate through the developing embryo following chemical gradients, to change shape, and to morph into various diverse cell types—red blood cells, photoreceptors, epithelial cells, leucocytes, and so forth—no complex multicellular organism would be possible. In effect, the fitness of nature for humans necessitates the prior fitness of nature for the cell. Cells are the crucial stepping stones on the road to humankind. Moon, Gwang-lip (25 February 2013). "Ryu Seung-ryong joins top actor club". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on 2013-03-02 . Retrieved 2013-02-25. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link)This book offers the most comprehensive review currently in print of the evidence that the laws of nature are fine-tuned for the cell. The same evidence conveys an irresistible impression of design, as much as in any other area of knowledge. Biochemistry is known to work from –20°C up to possibly 130°C. This is a narrow temperature range when compared to the range of temperatures found in our universe: near absolute zero (–273°C) up to millions of degrees inside stars. And the temperature range friendly to life overlaps with the temperatures water is in the liquid state. Denton says the correspondence of the stabilities and reactivities of organic molecules with the temperatures at which water is a liquid is miraculous. Chapter 3: The Double Helix Kim, Hyun-min (5 February 2013). "THE BERLIN FILE is No. 1 in First Week of Release; MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7 Also Performing Well". Korean Film Council . Retrieved 2013-02-06. The elements sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc all play essential roles in the cell.

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The film being a Philippine adaptation of a South Korean film is set in the Philippines. The protagonists' residence is situated somewhere along the Marikina River. Several other aspects of the film were changed from the source material including the names of the characters. [3] The prison which served as the main setting of the Philippine adaptation was filmed in a sound stage in Cainta, Rizal. [7] Metals play critical roles in biochemistry. The element iron is needed for hemoglobin, oxidative metabolism, electron transport chains, and larger animal life. One third of all enzymes involve a metal as an essential participant in their function. Iron, copper, sodium, and potassium are critical. Most ribozymes, RNA molecules that function as enzymes, require a metal for function. Iron and copper help transport molecular oxygen. Zinc, magnesium, and calcium stabilize the structures of folded proteins. Metals often serve as catalysts: iron, copper, and manganese are needed for redox reactions involving electron transfer. Sodium, potassium, and calcium help trigger cellular responses. Metals help proteins fold into various shapes, thereby imparting diverse functionality. Magnesium facilitates photosynthesis and the production of molecular oxygen in plants. The cell needs metals to establish transmembrane electrical potentials for powering various cellular activities. AsO4) are based on arsenic, the next atom in the same family as phosphorus. Although arsenic and phosphorus share some chemical properties, only phosphorus is suitable for its biochemical roles. If the elements were not designed specifically to accommodate life, we should be able to detect spots where improvement could be done or where one element could be substituted for another. According to Denton, this seems not to be the case.

Yong-gu is sent to prison, where he shares a jail cell (titled "Room 7") with five other inmates, all of who initially dislike him for his falsely accused crime and his disability. One day, Yong-gu saves the life of his cellmate and prison gang leader, So Yang-ho, from being stabbed by a rival prison gang leader. Touched at this, Yang-ho then offers to help Yong-gu in any way he can to return the favor. Yong-gu tells Yang-ho that he wants to see his daughter Ye-sung. The inmates successfully smuggle Ye-sung into the prison when her choir visits the prison for a performance. Ye-sung is introduced to her dad's cellmates and manages to stay for a night, but is inadvertently found by the warden. Eventually, the warden realises that Yong-gu is not the assailant of the girl after Yong-gu saves him from an attempted arson, and allows Ye-sung to visit Yong-gu every day after school. If the first living cell had come into existence by coincidence as evolutionists claim, and if just one of these properties of the membrane had not been fully formed, then the cell would certainly have disappeared in a very short time. One intriguing element of fitness for bioenergetics and proton pumping arises directly out of water’s hydrogen-bonded network, which provides so-called “proton wires” consisting of long chains of linked water molecules for moving protons (H ions) around in the cell and across the inner mitochondrial membrane. While, as Alok Jha points out, other charged particles involved in cellular functions have to move themselves physically from one place to another, “protons can pass their energy along a hydrogen-bonded water wire without moving themselves at all, thanks to the so called Grotthuss mechanism.” A proton attaches to one end of the wire, he explains, and in a split second, “each of the hydrogen bonds further along the length of the wire spin around in sequence so that a proton drops off the water molecule at the other end of the wire. The initial proton has not moved any further than the starting end of the wire but its charge and energy have been ‘conducted’ along the wire’s length.” Viscous drag is the tendency of a fluid to resist flow and is a result of a fluid’s viscosity. Mammals have 1000 capillaries per square millimeter. Capillaries are 40 microns apart. Most cells are one to three cell widths from a capillary. The viscous drag of water when pumped through capillaries causes pressure in the capillaries. If the viscosity of water were much greater, the thin cell walls of capillaries would rupture. The cell walls of the capillaries need to be thin to facilitate the diffusion of oxygen and nutrients. The viscosity of water facilitates the rapid diffusion of oxygen and nutrients by permitting the rapid flow of blood through capillaries. If water were less viscous, the increased mobility of water molecules would make cellular structures less stable. Denton explains: