Posted on 09/24/2013 8:01:13 AM PDT by fishtank
'Living Gears' Might Have Evolutionists Hopping Mad by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
When planthoppers hop, they really do pop. These tiny creatures fling themselves with such fury that, frankly, things would go awry if their jumping mechanisms were not properly tuned. For example, if one leg hopped a bit sooner or with slightly greater force than the other, the insect would just fling itself sideways. Good thing tiny gears synchronize their hind legs.
Well, technically the planthopper in question is a youngster—a nymph planthopper. But sure enough, Bristol biologist Greg Sutton found two minute rows of interlocking teeth at the base of the insect's legs. When it jumps, the gears mesh, keeping the two legs in lock-step. Sutton captured the gear action, which lasts for just a few milliseconds, using high-speed cameras. This remarkable mechanism helps the planthopper launch itself hundreds of times its body length with a single jump.
According to NPR Morning Edition, Sutton said this is "the first mechanical gear system ever observed in nature."1
It may be the first gear system ever actually observed, but it is not the first known. Scientists have been examining the effects of molecular gears for some time.
Bacterial flagella, for instance, incorporate a gear system that runs at variable speeds—forward and reverse—and that even has a clutch that can disengage the motor from the flagellar propeller.2 In 2008, biochemists also reported molecular gears found in a viral DNA packaging motor.3
These examples—all appearing as if they just rolled out of a miniature machine-shop—clearly indicate a meticulous and intentional design too difficult for evolutionists to explain. Surely these living gears could only have been created.
References
Cole, A. Living Gears Help This Bug Jump. NPR Morning Edition. Posted on npr.org September 13, 2013, accessed September 14, 2013.
Thomas, B. Bacterial Clutch Denotes Design. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org July 1, 2008, accessed September 16, 2013.
Thomas, B. Virus Motors Impossible for Evolution. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org January 9, 2009, accessed September 16, 2013.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on September 23, 2013.
True. A good example is the genes for blue eyes and blond hair. They are recessive genes. My dad has blond hair (now greying) and blue eyes, he is of Norwegian descent. My mom has black hair and dark brown eyes, she is of Korean descent. My hair is black and my eyes are dark brown even though half of my ancestry comes from my father.
The Bible gives two very different names for the Creator.
You also have to consider that a mutation that appears “neutral” (not having any observable effect) might be expressed in some future generation when it comes into combination with a different gene.
***The Bible gives two very different names for the Creator.***
You’ve now stated this in two different threads.
I’ll post the same thing I did there....
The God of the Bible has way more than two names. A list can be found here:
http://ft111.com/namesofgod.htm
It’s the same God, I assure you.
Hence... "The Bible gives two very different names for the Creator."
No matter how bad someone blows up your argument, just stick with it, right allmendream..... I mean R7.
For one, allmendream claimed he was a Christian. I consider myself an agnostic who suspects that God exists but we as mere humans, cannot comprehend God. Of course Christianity assumed the same except that it was possible to meaningfully interact with God in a limited way. I’m rather skeptical of that, but that’s just my personal belief.
***For one, allmendream claimed he was a Christian***
“Claimed” is the correct word. He was vile and vindictive in his posts and exhibited nothing that you would expect from a follower of Christ.
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