How much energy can ATP store? Biochemists calculate that for every 686 Calories provided by glucose, ATP can capture about 262 Calories, for an energy efficiency of 38%. According to the popular textbook Human Anatomy & Physiology by Marieb and Hoehn, cells are “far more efficient than any man-made machines, which capture only 10-30% of the energy available to them.”Alex Berezow, “The Cell: Most Energy Efficient Thing On Earth?” at American Council on Science and health
If you were to discover a highly efficient motor that performed necessary functions with precisely arranged parts, would you be allowed to infer teleology? What would prevent anyone from making the inference?
The questions are rhetorical – it is the dogmatic adherence to naturalism (no design) in biology that prevents the inference (regardless of the truth).
I suggest people look at a Youtube video called ‘Inner Cell Life’. Looking at all of these tiny little machines, made out of molecules, that make up human beings, it just changed my whole mental picture. Just incredible. There are also other videos put out by Harvard along the same lines.
Combined cycle power plants have efficiencies above 60%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant
The scholars have all but forgotten Marcus Terentius Varro, who wrote:
“...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases.”
He died in 27 BC.
BFL.
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A diagram showing a mitochondrion of the eukaryotic cell. Mitochondria are organelles surrounded by membranes,
distributed in the cytosol of most eukaryotic cells. Its main function is the conversion of potential energy of pyruvate molecules into ATP.
(Aka the powerhouse of the cell.)
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed...
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ARCHAEOLOGY
an oval or oblong enclosing a group of Egyptian hieroglyphs, typically representing the name and title of a monarch.
Excellent article. Thanks for sharing. 🙂 👍