March 23, 2006

Inky!

Pharyngula links to a member of the creationist group Answers In Genesis who makes the following Biblical argument:

...So, animals that contain hemoglobin (vertebrates) and therefore have red blood can be considered "living" and animals that contain hemocyanin, or other proteins (invertebrates) and therefore have blue (pink/violet or brown) blood can be considered "nonliving"... So the logical conclusion can be made that a "living" creature is one that contains red blood.
To which Pharyngula makes the classic reply,
What I'd really love to see now, though, is the rhetorical squirming they'd go through when it's pointed out that human embryos do not develop red blood cells until about the 5th week of development, and therefore the early embryo, by their own definition, is not living. Heh.
Oh, snap!

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