Sea water salts and blood (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 21:21 (3569 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I was taught in medical school and in my early reading about evolution that our blood salts closely resembled sea water salts, which could be attributed to as support of evolutionary theory that life started in the seas. Well, it seems it ain't true, and the presentation is by an arch vociferous neo-atheist biochemistry professor from Canada, Larry Moran. On his website is the proof blood plasma salts and ocean saltiness are different:-http://sandwalk.blogspot.jp/2015/02/john-f-kennedy-carnival-cruises-blood.html-Doesn't disprove evolution, but shows like Haeckel's false embryos the amount of twisted information is out there to prop up Darwin.-No, it doesn't disprove evolution, and Darwin's theory does not depend on life originating in the sea, so it doesn't need “propping up” by twisted information. The basis of Darwin's theory is that all forms of life except the first evolved from earlier forms. How this happened remains the subject of endless speculation. You and I agree that random mutations are not satisfactory explanations, and that gradualism flies in the face of the geological record. Darwin, we think, got that wrong (which - in my view mistakenly - he would have deemed fatal to the theory), but unless you are prepared to reject the theory of common descent, I think you should distinguish between evolution and the various hypotheses devised (not necessarily by Darwin) to explain where and how evolution started and how it works.