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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
"Why the hell do you think we have to share genes with our food in order to digest it?"
--Our bodies are designed to break up and use different sources of energy to sustain us, we have various specialized enzymes to break down various compounds such as proteins, carbohydrates, etc. At what level is cytochrome C? Is it an acid or a protein, that kind of thing, as I don't know too much about it I must admit. And about the Sunflower, that was what popped into my mind, so I thought I would suggest it, it wasn't that much of a belly laugh.
Sorry, Hovinds sunflower lie is a belly laugh. I don't blame you, it's easy to believe what you read, but I do urge caution when reading Hovind, though.
Cytochrome c is a protein, involved in Krebbs cycle, a metabolic process that forms Adenosene Triphosphate from oxygen & sugars.
It consists of 103-112 amino acids (this may well have changed, as the source I'm quoting is 10 years+ old), but most vertebrates have 104.
Mark
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Occam's razor is not for shaving with.