The mysteries of the awesome active ingredient in Aloe vera has been on the agenda for quite some time. Isolating this mystery has been quite a long time coming. In "The Miracle in Aloe Vera", Dr. Neecie Moore gives an interesting account.
'In the late 1930's, the first serious, scientific attempt to identify the active ingredient in Aloe vera was published (Rose & Parks, 1939). This study, and many that followed, failed to isolate the specific active ingredient(s) responsible for the plant's medicinal benefits. This failure followed the Aloe plant for another 50 years. However, like many mytsteries of life and medicine, clues as to the location of the right path began to surface.........
Research conducted in the 1950's set the stage. Ikawa and Niemann (1951) began isolating compounds in Aloe. They determined that the Aloe gel consisted of mucopolysaccharides (glucose, mannose, uronic acid, and rhamnose). The Niemann work was basic research, intended to simply discover what was present. Although analytical chemistry is not of particular interest to a layman, the major contribution of this work was that there active ingredients in Aloe, and that further study was definitely needed.
The first sign, "This Is the way!" had been tacked to a tree on the right path.'
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Arising By Chance?
Taken from Double doctor Doubts Darwinian Dogma by Dr. Don Johnson in 'Creation' magazine Vol 20 No. 2.
Is it correct our well designed bodies need nutrition by chance?
'As a specialist in information science, Dr. Johnson points out that evolutionists have an impossible problem explaining the origin of the information in living things: 'Information cannot arise by chance, no matter how long you have. It just can't. For example, take a die and you roll it 100 times - you are going to get a very complex sequence of numbers, and each one has a probability of one out of six. "Well", some say, "see this complex sequence happened totally by chance. We are very complex and we happened totally by chance also." But I point out, "Yes, but what is the probability of that number pattern happening, because if you accept any result from the roll of the die, every time you roll it the probability is one that you are going to get any result." And therefore one to the one-hundredth power is one. You have a certainty, and a certainty contains zero information. Therefore it doesn't matter how complex the pattern is, you have no information.
'And I point out the difference between data [or complexity] and information. Information is something that is useful that you can use to make predictions that have meaning, and the only way to get that is by intelligence. There is absolutely no way that ever has been shown to produce information other than by intelligence. And therefore, you have life, you have the complexity of DNA structure and the amount of information that it contains, which is something that boggles very intelligent people. It makes absolutely zero sense to say it happened by chance. Things had to have been intelligently designed, they could not have happened by chance.'
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Is it correct our well designed bodies need nutrition by chance?
'As a specialist in information science, Dr. Johnson points out that evolutionists have an impossible problem explaining the origin of the information in living things: 'Information cannot arise by chance, no matter how long you have. It just can't. For example, take a die and you roll it 100 times - you are going to get a very complex sequence of numbers, and each one has a probability of one out of six. "Well", some say, "see this complex sequence happened totally by chance. We are very complex and we happened totally by chance also." But I point out, "Yes, but what is the probability of that number pattern happening, because if you accept any result from the roll of the die, every time you roll it the probability is one that you are going to get any result." And therefore one to the one-hundredth power is one. You have a certainty, and a certainty contains zero information. Therefore it doesn't matter how complex the pattern is, you have no information.
'And I point out the difference between data [or complexity] and information. Information is something that is useful that you can use to make predictions that have meaning, and the only way to get that is by intelligence. There is absolutely no way that ever has been shown to produce information other than by intelligence. And therefore, you have life, you have the complexity of DNA structure and the amount of information that it contains, which is something that boggles very intelligent people. It makes absolutely zero sense to say it happened by chance. Things had to have been intelligently designed, they could not have happened by chance.'
Mannatech's cutting-edge scientists have produced PhytoMatrix, a plant-sourced multivitamin and mineral supplement utilising proprietary technology to provide superior delivery of esssential vitamin, minerals and important phytochemicals.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Dead Whales: Telling Tales
Excerpt from 'Creation' magazine Vol. 26 No. 4 2004 'Dead Whales:telling tales' by Michael Oard who has an M.S. in atmospheric science and is a retired meteorologist from the US National Weather Service.
'How did over 300 whales, porpoises, turtles, seals, fish, and land animals such as ground sloths and penguins end up being catastrophically buried together?
'We knew it was a great find,' said paleontologist Leonard Brand about the fossil whales he saw in Peru in 1999, 350 km(200miles) south of Lima, the capital. Eagerly he organized a team of creationist research scientists.
Overall, they found 346 whales within a 1.5-km (370-acre) area, buried in an 80-m (260-ft) thick layer of sedimentary rock called diatomite. This layer is part of the Pisco Formation, which varies in thickness from 200-1,000 m(650-3,300 ft).
Diatomite is sedimentary rock containing a high % of fossil diatoms- small single-celled algae, which commonly live near the ocean surface. The layer of diatomite in Peru has 5 to 10% clay and abundant volcanic ash.
Today, when diatoms die, their silica skeletons accumulate on the ocean floor. One gram (0.035oz) of diatomite may contain up to 400 million skeletons. Diatomite sediment normally accumulates slowly - only a few centimetres per thousand years. Even where the rate is higher, such as in some shallow-water areas, accumulation is still slow. .......
In Peru, the fossilized whales and diatoms were well preserved and the whale skeletons were mostly intact.'
'Remarkably, these rapidly buried fossil whales contradict one of the ruling principles of modern geology, uniformitarianism - i.e. rocks formed slowly in the past similar to what we observe in the present. Interpreted according to that principle the whales were buried over a period of two million years about 10 million years ago. However, the fact that 80 m of sediment buried 346 whales within months or weeks (or less) creates a problem for those who believe in millions of years. Where do they put the time? There is nowhere for it in the rocks.'
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'How did over 300 whales, porpoises, turtles, seals, fish, and land animals such as ground sloths and penguins end up being catastrophically buried together?
'We knew it was a great find,' said paleontologist Leonard Brand about the fossil whales he saw in Peru in 1999, 350 km(200miles) south of Lima, the capital. Eagerly he organized a team of creationist research scientists.
Overall, they found 346 whales within a 1.5-km (370-acre) area, buried in an 80-m (260-ft) thick layer of sedimentary rock called diatomite. This layer is part of the Pisco Formation, which varies in thickness from 200-1,000 m(650-3,300 ft).
Diatomite is sedimentary rock containing a high % of fossil diatoms- small single-celled algae, which commonly live near the ocean surface. The layer of diatomite in Peru has 5 to 10% clay and abundant volcanic ash.
Today, when diatoms die, their silica skeletons accumulate on the ocean floor. One gram (0.035oz) of diatomite may contain up to 400 million skeletons. Diatomite sediment normally accumulates slowly - only a few centimetres per thousand years. Even where the rate is higher, such as in some shallow-water areas, accumulation is still slow. .......
In Peru, the fossilized whales and diatoms were well preserved and the whale skeletons were mostly intact.'
'Remarkably, these rapidly buried fossil whales contradict one of the ruling principles of modern geology, uniformitarianism - i.e. rocks formed slowly in the past similar to what we observe in the present. Interpreted according to that principle the whales were buried over a period of two million years about 10 million years ago. However, the fact that 80 m of sediment buried 346 whales within months or weeks (or less) creates a problem for those who believe in millions of years. Where do they put the time? There is nowhere for it in the rocks.'
Mannatech Inc. proprietary products - glyconutritionals - redefine wellness and are designed to give you assurance of nutritional health. Glyconutrients are essential for optimal health and well-being however are mostly missing from our modern diet.
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