I have not blogged much the past months for a variety of reasons. Mainly I have been very focused on getting Flypaper on solid ground. We have made a lot of progress and I am more confident in our ultimate success than I have been since becoming CEO a year ago. Dec and Jan will be big months in launching the Flypaper Platform aimed at Corporations and Service Providers who use and create lots of Flash content.
With this post I decided to dip my toe back into the ID controversy. Even though I am not a scientist and I tend to get hammered when I do this. The post is a bit "random"and I hope it hangs together as you read it.
I read an interesting book and have had a number of thoughts (insights?) that I want to share primarily to other layman for their consideration. I am well aware that scientists on both sides of the ID/Darwinist arguments will have already delved deeply into these issues and both will have even better arguments for or against my thoughts and ideas. That is fine.
1. It was interesting to me to learn that it is likely that the human body once had the ability to make Vitamin C. Most likely in large quantities. I had wondered why most mammals make large amounts of Vitamin C but humans did not. Under stress, animals will make even larger amounts. Vitamin C is a great antioxidant and is involved in MANY enzymatic reactions including the making of neurotransmitters. I wondered why the "Designer" gave this ability to goats and such, but not to us?
Well I learned that we actually have 3 of 4 needed enzymes present in our systems to turn glucose into vitamin C. And we apparently have in our genome the ability make the 4th enzyme, but a mutation somewhere in our history caused this last enzyme to not be made. This had to happen very early in our history since no one can make Vitamin C. I wondered why we don't see a mixture of some who do and some who don't make it?
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