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So I said a few weeks ago that I was going to post some intersting stuff that supports the fact that there was a creator (God) and we and the earth are not just a happen chance. I have dug deep into my studies to bring some interesting things and I know that people here (especially ecrypt and jenks
) like to discuss things that make you go hmmmmmm. So lets get started.
The first thing I would like to toss around is a thing called symbiosis. This is an area that strongly supports a creator and not what some would like to say the "big bang". A symbiotic relationship is one in which 2 organisms live in such a close relationship that one cannot live without the other. Certain plants cannot live without certain insects that pollinate them or clean them or store up certain nutrients for them. At the same time, the plant provides nourishment and/or protection for the insect. Sometimes such relationships exist between 2 plants or 2 animals, like the man-of-war jellyfish and the tiny fish that live among its tenticles and yet never get stung. These types of two-way symbiotic relationships are difficult to explain by natural causes because the question arises, "Which came first?"
If you agree that there are problems answering this question with two codependent life forms, how much more difficult do you think it would be to explain the simultaneous evolution of three? Yet this is what we find with a leaf-cutting ant species in South America whose colonies may contain up to eight million ants, ( a number which surpisingly represents the collective biomass of an adult cow.)
These particular ants cultivate mushrooms as a farmer cultivates crops, using leaf cuttings instead of soil. The ants are not able to eat the leaves because the leaves contain a natural insecticide. Neither can the mushrooms live on the leaves because the surface of the leaves is coated with a prohibitive wax.
To make the relationship work, the ants must carefully avoid the poison as they scrape the wax off the leaves. Without the wax, the leaves are able to decay into a mulch in which the mushrooms can grow. The mushrooms, in turn, harmlessly absorb the insecticide, converting it into an edible food for the ants called gongylidia. Neither creature could live without the other. Scientists have know about the dual nature of this symbiosis for a long time.
However, recent studies have revealed another partner necessary to sustain the ant/mushroom relationship. The mushrooms have a parasite enemy that would normally destroy them, but they can be protected with an antibiotic produced by a special bacterium that, coincidentally, lives on the ants' bodies. So the bacterium depends upon the host ant's body for life. The ant depends upon the food produced by the mushrooms for life. And the mushrooms depend upon the ants' farming practices and the ants' pet bacterium for life.
This three-way relationship is irreducibly complex. If any one of the partners is missing, the entire group dies. The only way such a codependent society could be produced is by intelligent design.
The biggest problem in trying to explain this being an accident would be, who came first, how did the other survive while the other evolved into its role in the relationship. Evolution form single-celled blobs just does not explain such complicated relationships in the scheme of life.
I have many more things to post but I will let you feed on this for a bit, while I type the other thigs as they are a bit more in depth and deal with the mathematical probability of the earth accidentally forming conditions to support life.
) like to discuss things that make you go hmmmmmm. So lets get started.The first thing I would like to toss around is a thing called symbiosis. This is an area that strongly supports a creator and not what some would like to say the "big bang". A symbiotic relationship is one in which 2 organisms live in such a close relationship that one cannot live without the other. Certain plants cannot live without certain insects that pollinate them or clean them or store up certain nutrients for them. At the same time, the plant provides nourishment and/or protection for the insect. Sometimes such relationships exist between 2 plants or 2 animals, like the man-of-war jellyfish and the tiny fish that live among its tenticles and yet never get stung. These types of two-way symbiotic relationships are difficult to explain by natural causes because the question arises, "Which came first?"
If you agree that there are problems answering this question with two codependent life forms, how much more difficult do you think it would be to explain the simultaneous evolution of three? Yet this is what we find with a leaf-cutting ant species in South America whose colonies may contain up to eight million ants, ( a number which surpisingly represents the collective biomass of an adult cow.)
These particular ants cultivate mushrooms as a farmer cultivates crops, using leaf cuttings instead of soil. The ants are not able to eat the leaves because the leaves contain a natural insecticide. Neither can the mushrooms live on the leaves because the surface of the leaves is coated with a prohibitive wax.
To make the relationship work, the ants must carefully avoid the poison as they scrape the wax off the leaves. Without the wax, the leaves are able to decay into a mulch in which the mushrooms can grow. The mushrooms, in turn, harmlessly absorb the insecticide, converting it into an edible food for the ants called gongylidia. Neither creature could live without the other. Scientists have know about the dual nature of this symbiosis for a long time.
However, recent studies have revealed another partner necessary to sustain the ant/mushroom relationship. The mushrooms have a parasite enemy that would normally destroy them, but they can be protected with an antibiotic produced by a special bacterium that, coincidentally, lives on the ants' bodies. So the bacterium depends upon the host ant's body for life. The ant depends upon the food produced by the mushrooms for life. And the mushrooms depend upon the ants' farming practices and the ants' pet bacterium for life.
This three-way relationship is irreducibly complex. If any one of the partners is missing, the entire group dies. The only way such a codependent society could be produced is by intelligent design.
The biggest problem in trying to explain this being an accident would be, who came first, how did the other survive while the other evolved into its role in the relationship. Evolution form single-celled blobs just does not explain such complicated relationships in the scheme of life.
I have many more things to post but I will let you feed on this for a bit, while I type the other thigs as they are a bit more in depth and deal with the mathematical probability of the earth accidentally forming conditions to support life.
why are we here???
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