More Denton: A concise summary for design (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 03, 2015, 00:32 (3309 days ago) @ David Turell

He gives a brief set of biochemistry examples from a long essay as to why design is evident in the biology of humans:-http://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/view/BIO-C.2013.1/BIO-C.2013.1-
"Many of the properties of the key members of Henderson's
vital ensemble—water, oxygen, CO2, HCO3 —are in several
instances fit specifically for warm-blooded, air-breathing organisms
such as ourselves. These include the thermal properties of
water, its low viscosity, the gaseous nature of oxygen and CO2
at ambient temperatures, the inertness of oxygen at ambient
temperatures, and the bicarbonate buffer, with its anomalous
pKa value and the elegant means of acid-base regulation it provides
for air-breathing organisms. Some of their properties are
irrelevant to other classes of organisms or even maladaptive.
It is very hard to believe there could be a similar suite of fitness
for advanced carbon-based life forms. If carbon-based life is
all there is, as seems likely, then the design of any active complex
terrestrial being would have to closely resemble our own. Indeed
the suite of properties of water, oxygen, and CO2 together
impose such severe constraints on the design and functioning
of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems that their design,
even down to the details of capillary and alveolar structure
can be inferred from first principles. For complex beings of high
metabolic rate, the designs actualized in complex Terran forms
are all that can be. There are no alternative physiological designs
in the domain of carbon-based life that can achieve the high
metabolic activity manifest in man and other higher organisms."-Comment: Nothing could be clearer. Fred Hoyle who started as an atheist said:-"One might aptly paraphrase Hoyle, “A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with the laws of chemistry
and biology towards the specific end of organisms like us.'”