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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (19236)	2/8/2005 11:17:50 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

The Oct. 2004 Scientific American has a good study on the development of the clear lens of the eye. It seems that the cells of the lens start out much like other cells, but then they are sent a death signal, the same kind that makes leaves fall off a tree. The key is that they suck out their useful part, the nucleus and mitrochondria and stuff as they are dying, but just before the cell actually dies the signal is removed and they live on, but with no cellular machinery (and completely transparent). No designer would do something that stupid when a proper DNA sequence would have produced a clear cell in the first place, but evolution has to take it's steps where it finds them. TP