US studies show germs help species evolve

22 May 2008

 When you look out into the heavens where the number of stars out number the grains of sand on the entire planet, it seems like we are so small in such a vast universe. When you stop looking out and start looking in you also realize that we are gigantic compared to other organisms. In a study in 2006 it had been shown that there are more bacteria in the human gut than cells that are in your entire body.

 We live in a symbiotic relationship with these bacteria. Without us they can not live, without them we can not digest food. This is just one of many symbiotic relationships in nature such as between flowers and pollinators or psyllids and aphids. This is the classic chicken and the egg problem that evolutionists have because something had to come first.

 The model of co-evolution would say that the host did not need the symbiotic relationship at first but then they worked together and eventually became symbiotic. The question then is if a host can function completely by itself, how would it becoming less complex be evolution? That would be a net loss of genetic information and therefore be de-evolving.

 A symbiotic relationship is not just based on location, but is also built on trust. Everything you put into your stomach is attacked and riped into its basic nutrients to feed the body.

 - How would the body have known not to attack the invading bacteria?
 - How did it know that the bacteria could do a better job than it could?
 - How did the bacteria know the complex relationship needed to survive and not to violate that trust in such a dangerous environment?

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