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Sunday, May 30, 2010

The biochemical similarity of living things fits easily within a creation framework. As biochemist Duane Gish explains:

A creationist would also expect many biochemical similarities in all living organisms. We all drink the same water, breathe the same air, and eat the same food. Supposing, on the other hand, God had made plants with a certain type of amino acids, sugars, purines, pyrimidines, etc.; then made animals with a different type of amino acids, sugars, purines, pyrimidines, etc.; and, finally, made man with a third type of amino acids, sugars, etc. What could we eat? We couldn’t eat plants; we couldn’t eat animals; all we could eat would be each other! Obviously, that wouldn’t work. All the key molecules in plants, animals, and man had to be the same. The metabolism of plants, animals, and man, based on the same biochemical principles, had to be similar, and therefore key metabolic pathways would employ similar macromolecules, modified to fit the particular internal environment of the organism or cell in which it must function. (Gish, 277.)

The claim that all organisms have one or more traits in common is true in the sense that all living things necessarily have the traits by which life is defined, but that is simply a tautology — living things all have the traits of living things.

5 comments:

  1. It's a trait of common descent.

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  2. This is just another "god had to do it this way" post. You know, with all the ways god HAD to do it, the room for creativity tends to continue to shrink. After a while, god might not have had any choice whatsoever, but to "flip on the switch" of existance. But then it doesn't so much sound like god anymore.

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  3. "Oh, DM! You're such a card!"

    Yup ...Seems he`s a real BOOB BOO, ALRIGHT

    DM ..Smashing TVs ?? ...What for??.. have you turned into taking up following some strange cult thats all into "vandalisim" or something

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  4. Atheists killed Mickey Mouse?

    News to me...

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