News flash: Biochemist Shares NEW EVIDENCE For God (Mind Blowing!)

Sorry, the title is not true, but taken from the video I’m talking about. We’re discussing a Youtube video from the creationist channel “daily dose of wisdom, claiming recent scientific evidence was proof for God.

Mark Nijenhuis
4 min readDec 29, 2024

This is the link to the video:
https://youtu.be/pvd5g2vcM3M?si=8TRBVIEMJ-ITu_-X

More like a daily dose of nonsense, click bait, lies and deception. Mind blowing? The way they pack the old ‘god of the gaps’ argument in this video is mind blowing.

One of the reactions:

So sad that so many are blind to the fact that the biomechanical machine that we call a body has all the hallmarks of intelligent design. Who wrote the building instructions for the biomechanical machine to be built? There are unbreakable laws that govern life, the universe and everything, who wrote those laws? Building instructions and laws don’t just happen by chance!

I had to respond

You know what? You actually have a point! It does! It has all the hallmarks of intelligent design! And indeed, building instructions don’t just happen by chance! Let’s agree. (High five.)

We come to this conclusion by logic, right? Logic and reason. If this, then that. Causality.

So let’s go find the designer! Now, the same logic tells us they must have thought this through quite thoroughly. Our reasoning tells us that a lot of planning and research must go into really complex systems — and a lot of time. So, naturally, we’d expect to find some laboratory or advanced workshop, right? And since the human genome contains billions of base pairs encoding countless intricate tasks, we’d expect there to be substantial research into things like cell specialization, energy storage, and activation. Following our logic, there must be a department of “Power Management,” famously known for inventing the “fuel of the cell.” That was a game-changer, though it must’ve taken a ton of trial and error to get there. At one point, someone must’ve had the brilliant idea: “Let’s merge two different cells together!” And voilà — mitochondria were born, with their own DNA. Brilliant!

We’d also expect a mega-company somewhere on Earth — because let’s be honest, microgravity is terrible for prototyping! This would be a massive lab with departments dedicated to organs, movement simulation, reproduction (I hear that one’s popular with interns), eye-hand coordination, and, of course, consciousness. That last department would undoubtedly house the crème de la crème of designers.

And the challenges! Oh boy, you wouldn’t believe how much effort it must’ve taken to overcome them! Any idea how complex an eye is? Or how long it took to crack the KREBS cycle? I imagine they lost a few prototypes to spontaneous combustion — horrifying, but a necessary step toward progress.

But here’s the kicker: the final assembly. This is where our reason and logic hit a wall. There’s simply no way to “assemble” a fully functional, living, breathing human body of 37 trillion cells — each perfectly specialized and synchronized — ready to eat its first meal. Reason and logic scream: “Impossible!” So, maybe they grew humans from a fertilized egg cell in vitro?

Oh, wait. That raises another problem. The entire instruction set for growth, development, specialization, and separation, fouraging, eating and digestion, reproduction and courtship, fight and flight, healing, navigating your envirionment (and apparantly, they decided to throw in some extra’s like creativity, etc), would have to be encoded perfectly in that one cell — no testing, no prototyping. Just poof — a perfect program written in a low-level code of only four letters. That’s supposed to be more complex than ten times the Linux kernel (30 million lines of code). How reasonable is it to assume a designer just pulled that off? Reason and logic say: “Nope.”

And let’s not forget the infrastructure! Where’s the nuclear power plant needed to fuel such a venture? The staggering energy requirements, the raw materials — pure carbon, rare elements — it’s a logistical nightmare.

Now, here’s where it gets hilarious. You use reason and logic to deduce that a designer must exist… and then you stop there. Instead of following through, you point to an ancient book — barely a few thousand years old — suspiciously written in Babel, in Aramaic. And what does it describe? Not a designer, but a magician. A clay figurine, puffed into life. Magic words, a wave of an arm, and bam — human beings. No research, no iteration, no prototyping. Just… magic.

So here’s my question: If you use reason and logic to argue for a designer, why abandon them to accept the most improbable explanation possible? Why reject the scientific method, which seeks to understand life through observation, experimentation, and evidence?

Our little thought experiment shows that even designing the simplest life form would take millions of years of iteration, adaptation, and improvement. And guess what? That’s exactly what we observe. Life wasn’t “made.” Life evolved — slowly, messily, beautifully — over eons of time. Indeed, no change, just favoring variations that have more viability and a higher success rate than others.

Now, doesn’t that sound a lot more reasonable?

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Mark Nijenhuis
Mark Nijenhuis

Written by Mark Nijenhuis

Hi, I'm a loser like you and a specimen of the hidious race that is pestering this earth and making it inhabitable for all known lifeforms.

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