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CODE 251 & GENETIC CODE
Intelligent Design?
by Floyd R. Cox
It is a mystery how a
microscopic egg can combine with a cell and almost instantly possess all the
information necessary to grow through each sheltered stage in life, until it
becomes a full-grown adult. How can so much information reside in such a tiny
amount of space? From where did the information come? How did it become
“programmed”? After death, can the program be saved to create another copy in
the future? Are we just a ghost that appears for a while and vanishes
forever?
Regeneration
Can we be regenerated?
Then again, which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Perhaps the Pharaohs of
ancient Egypt noticed that every species is capable of regenerating or
re-growing missing parts, such as, tails, limbs, jaws, eyes, internal
structures or even half of their missing bodies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_(biology).
Perhaps there was hope for the Pharaoh to eventually be “regenerated” after
his death if he were embalmed properly.
Eco systems also
regenerate. After a forest fire or volcanic eruption, pioneering species will
compete for space and occupy the newly opened habitat with new growth of
seedlings.
Stem Cells
Allegedly every adult cell
in the human body has enough information to re-grow all other cells in the
body. However, adult stem cells are already programmed or “differentiated”.
Those found in a molar tooth, if placed in a petri dish with growth factor,
will re-grow into a molar tooth, but they won’t become incisor teeth. These
need incisor stem cells. Stem cells harvested from one eye can be transferred
to restore the other eye that has been chemically burned.
A major problem lies in
trying to patent these cells and “own” them to make a profit. This entices
researchers to use cells not yet programmed, such as those found in bone
marrow or in the mother’s birth sack. In the meantime, others are making huge
progress using stem cells found in tissue to repair surrounding tissue.
Recent findings imply that
the major cause of cancer may result from stem cells reproducing one stem
cell that has mutated in such a way that it is rejected by the immune system.
Therefore, it allegedly grows continuously in an isolated location.
Wouldn’t it be something
if someone discovered how an electric eel discovered electricity or found
that a whale actually transfers photos to other whales just as we do with our
wireless signals?
We praise the research for
transforming computers with 20 GB hard drives into those now having 32 GB on
tiny “Thumb Drives”, but this is nothing in comparison to the amount of
information on the molecular computers found in our bodies. But how did this
happen?
Instinct
Allegedly, a researcher
has transferred a sequence of DNA from a robin to another bird. The offspring
of the recipient allegedly hopped like a robin and sung the robin’s song. It
would be interesting if someone isolated a bird in a greenhouse environment
after hatching, keep it fed and isolated from all other birds. Will it
instinctively know how to build a nest? If so, how did it learn to do this?
Can knowledge be transferred to the next generation chemically? Eggs of
different birds hatch at specific times after a specific periods of time. How
can this be an instinct?
Twin studies have shown
that identical twins separated at birth will choose the same type of husband,
jobs, housing, etc. Does this mean they received these preferences from their
parents?
Allegedly, a man found a
turtle in his back yard with a red paint mark on its shell. After taking the
turtle several miles away into the country, it was back in his yard a few
days later. An arctic Turn can find its way to the south pole, half way
around the world. A Tuna fish can find its way back to where it was spawned,
to where it will spawn another generation. Monarch butterflies can migrate a
thousand miles and return on certain dates. Is this a built-in GPS or a
“honing instinct”?
A fungus can produce
several generations in a few days. If placed in a drought environment, it
will quickly produce a generation that can live in a drought environment.
This implies that simple organisms are not only adaptive but also creative.
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