Tiny Ocean Plants Offer Biochemical Enigma (for Darwinists)

ICR ^ | February 11, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

[GodGunsGuts]

ping!

[dirtboy]

You asked this question on a previous thread:

What if different, unrelated single-celled life-forms came to Earth on more than one comet?

Maybe they did - look how bizzare this new organism is. We are continually finding new and strange forms of microbial life as we explore new ecosystems. Maybe many forms of life came to Earth via comets but one core form emerged to dominate - with rest relegated to niche environments.

[MovementConservative]

Is it really necessary to add to the title? What is gained by being snarky about the advancement of knowledge? Not everyone of us is so insecure in our faith that we have to take an us vs. them view of science.

[muawiyah]

This world probably has TRILLIONS of different genes floating about in the upper layers of the oceans just waiting to be plugged in somewhere.

They come with the territory.

If Creationists want to believe they constitute a "backup system", then they can believe that.

What they do to "evolution" is to move it out of the "gradualist doctrines of the hoary past" into a quantum present.

It should be possible to "find" preferential genes among viruses, plug them into a genome, and get a more optimally performing critter.

Kind of like putting a supercharger on your 1957 Chevy.

[demshateGod]

So scientist don’t know everything about the natural world?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Cedric]

Nothin’ snarky, other than the snarkiness of your snarkalicious whining.

[Moonman62]

Rather, they are a backup system that the Creator planned from the beginning.

Why would an omnipotent, and omniscient Creator that plans things, and can whip up a species out of nothing at anytime, need a backup system?

[cripplecreek]

The fear of science is an indicator of weakness of faith. I was raised in a very religious family that encouraged curiosity and knowledge. My belief in evolutionary theory dosn’t take anything away from my faith.

How God created it isn’t nearly as importnant as my faith that he did.

[mgstarr]

Some people feel better about their faith by denigrating others.

No one here of course.

[demshateGod]

“.....is so insecure in our faith”

Those strawmen who are insecure in their faith are stupid idiots. They’re not represented in this thread, however.

[allmendream]

Three cheers for cripplecreek.

Fear of science is an indicator of weakness of faith.

[null and void]

If Creationists want to believe they constitute a "backup system", then they can believe that.

Why would a perfect system created by an infallible, all knowing God need a backup system?

[null and void]

Darn you.

[GodGunsGuts]

Why do humans design adaptable/backup systems in their own designs? We are, after all, made in HIS image.

[Moonman62]

Are you saying that we are God?

[Plutarch]

I guess creationists never need grapple with enigmas, what with that handy omnipotence thing being available for all exigencies.

[stormer]

Wow! You mean scientists actually do science and getting unexpected results? That's what it's about. Where is the legion of researchers from the “Discovery” Institute? In the field or working in labs trying to contribute to the body of knowledge? No, they're to busy yapping that high school kids should be “taught the controversy”. There isn't one high school kid in a hundred that has ever heard the word phospholipid and you want them to absorb the kind of things people get a PhD for studying. They have to learn the paradigm before they can begin to speculate on where it may need more support.

[PC99]

“the recent discovery of single-celled photosynthetic organisms surviving without the chemical element in their membranes is going to require some major rewrites to biochemistry textbooks.”

Yes, that’s how we learn about nature, it’s called science. Gaps in our knowledge exist everywhere, but they don’t mean that creationism is true by default. By this logic, even the tiniest flaw in our knowledge of human reproduction would automatically mean that babies are brought by storks.