Rocks

During my daily drive to work at Hanford, I see erratics.  These are stones dropped at a place where they should not be located.  Some of these appear to be chunks of pink marble or granite weighing a ton or more.  These erratics are located in an area of deep (500 ft) sand and gravel deposition from the “Ice-Age Floods”  These huge chunks of rock apparently dropped out of a floating ice berg as it was being carried along by the flood.  The fact that these rocks show little sign of erosion or tumbling causes me to believe that they were deposited pretty close to their current position.

I look at these erratics and I can imagine a mindless force depositing these rocks.

If I should happen to see another rock on top of one of these erratics it would cause me to ponder.  I wonder how that rock got there on top of the other rock?  I suppose the glacier that dropped the first rock could have dropped a second rock on top.  Maybe a volcano erupted and threw out a rock that just happened to fall on top of the first rock.  Or, maybe some person happened along and put that second rock on top of the first rock.  Some deep meditation going on in my mind as I sleepily drive to work.

If I were to see two rocks stacked on top of that erratic, I would think … I wonder … who stacked those rocks?  Why did they stack those rocks?  Am I looking at a property boundary?  A grave?  A marker for a path?  A child’s version of a skyscraper?

Why is it nearly impossible to look at a stack of three rocks without ascribing the situation to intelligent design?  And yet, we look at the incredible complexity of a DNA molecule, with thousands of thousands of amino acids stacked up into a self duplicating, self repairing digital code, complete with start and stop bits, and we say, “this all happened by chance!”?  I don’t think so.  Intelligent Design is at work here! – Lloyd

Apes

Thursday, September 30, 2010, one of Rush Limbaugh’s callers stated that since apes and humans have so much in common (98% commonality he claimed), the fact that apes and man descended from a common evolutionary ancestor was irrefutable.

Rush stood his ground for Intelligent Design.  Here is some additional ammunition you can use when confronted with the “commonality to man” argument.

Ever skin a bear?  The hide free body of a bear looks so much like a human that it is unnerving.

Ever take insulin?  The insulin we take for human diabetes is extracted from pigs.

The eye of a squid is the closest thing in nature to the eye of a human. (Google “eye of squid”)

The inner workings of plant cells has a great deal in common with the inner workings of animal (and human) cells.

The nucleotide sequence of spinach cytoplasmic 5S ribosomal RNA is very similar to the structure of human KB Cell 5S RNA. (http://www.jbc.org/content/256/14/7515.full.pdf)

Ever befriend an engineer?  Lets say your engineer friend designs bridges.  Would you be surprised to find that he used a similar bridge design when building his custom home?

By the way, could you show me any evidence of the existence of these proto-evolutionary species?  Especially finding the remains of a combination proto Ape-Squid-Pig-Spinach would be nice.

If we allow for Intelligent Design.  Why should we be amazed that the Designer should place similar cell designs in life?  Why shouldn’t the Designer place a human eye in a squid (or vice versa)?  Why shouldn’t the Designer use the same insulin molecule in a man and a pig?  Why shouldn’t the Designer use a similar RNA in a man and a spinach?

I would say that in the area of commonality, the preponderance of the evidence points to Intelligent Design rather than convergent evolutionary trees. – Lloyd