[asa] AIG argues (again) for design

Here is the weakly blurb from AIG.

uch like the discredited "Bomb" beetle argument of my friend Duane Gish.

Burgy

Q: What do millipedes and cyanide have to do with evolution?

A: One would think that cyanide-producing millipedes would be killed by
their own poison. But surprisingly, they aren’t!

Located within the sides of each segment of this type of millipede are
small chambers that produce a deadly cyanide liquid. The poison is
activated when the millipede is threatened, and forms little droplets
along the millipede’s side.

The cyanide is strong enough to make most predators seriously ill if they
touch the millipede. And it’s strong enough to kill many small predators
if they eat it. Since the cyanide gives off a peculiar odor, most animals
will just avoid the millipede altogether.

The millipede has a special kind of mitochondria that helps prevent it
from poisoning itself. But if evolution were true, then how many
millipedes poisoned themselves before they developed the mitochondria
that protect them? The system that produces the cyanide is extremely
complex and would have had to evolve at the same time, otherwise none of
it would have worked.

This type of millipede had to be specially designed to do what it does,
and what it does do, it does do well.
 

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Received on Tue Oct 3 10:41:35 2006