Intelligent design (Introduction)

by Abel , Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 22:05 (4757 days ago) @ David Turell

Abel: David, I was thinking of sending you some samples of my skin immersed in mineral oil on a couple of microscope slides with cover slips. An microscopic examination will reveal that each of my cells possess three nuclei, not one. I am aware of no other animal on the planet whose cells possess three nuclei. Thus the samples I will send you are unique.

Some cells in plants and animals have more than one nucleus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenocyte

Thank you David, I was unaware that there certain types of cells such as osteoblasts in animals that have more than one nuclei, however there are no animals that have three nuclei in all of their terminally differentiated tissues. The sample that I will send you will be intact skin samples stained with eosin, if this is to your liking.

[DragonsHeart: "To be the devil's advocate here, but how would he actually know that the cells came from your skin? Unless he took the skin cells from you himself, he wouldn't. Having some person send you "skin cells" in the mail isn't empirical evidence. Unless he could, without a doubt, identify where the cells came from, just looking at cells under a microscope proves nothing."[/i]

Looking under a microscope to see conjoined tri-nucleated skin cells which exists in no other animal on the planet, does prove something. However I guess you could believe that I just had access to a non-human that didn't mind me pulling flesh off of him. I do have trouble convincing regular advocates though, much less the devil's.