Is the Shark Related to the Pig?
If all life evolved from, and is related to, earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes that creatures that look similar to each other would also have similar chemicals. For example, insulin from a shark should be more like insulin from other fish than insulin from mammals.
Unfortunately for the evolutionist, chemical comparisons between various creatures don't usually show the same relationships as their evolutionary charts. For example, research at the Medical University of South Carolina compared the hormone relaxin that was produced by pigs and rats with relaxin produced by sharks. The results showed that the pig's relaxin was more like the shark's relaxin than it was like a rat's.
This seems to suggest that pigs are more closely related to sharks than to another mammal, the rat. A similar study comparing insulin showed a closer similarity between the shark and the pig than between the shark and another fish, the carp.
While evolutionists will sometimes point out instances where these comparisons have worked out as they expected, those results are unusual. Normally these comparisons show that the evolutionary histories and relationships that evolutionists claim are nothing more than imagination. As the Bible says, each kind of creature gives evidence to the fact that it was uniquely created by God.
Genesis 1:21
"So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to there kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good."
Prayer: Dear heavenly Father; I thank You that You have provided each living thing, including myself, with the unique bodily needs so necessary for life. I ask that the fact that each kind of creature has been specially created by You would become increasingly apparent to modern science. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Mark W. Cadwallader: Is the shark related to the pig? The answer is next on today's Creation Moment. And now here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.
Ian T. Taylor: If all life evolved from and is related to earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes that creatures which look similar to each other would also have similar chemicals.
For example, insulin from a shark should be more like insulin from other fish than insulin from, say, the mammals. Unfortunately for the evolutionist, chemical comparisons between various creatures do not usually show the same relationships as their evolutionary charts.
For example, research at the Medical University of South Carolina compared the hormone relaxin, which was produced by pigs and rats, with the relaxin produced by sharks. The result showed that the pig's relaxin was more like the shark's relaxin than it was like the rat's. This would seem to say that pigs are more closely related to sharks than to another mammal, the rat.
A similar study comparing insulin showed a closer similarity between the shark and the pig than between the shark and another fish, the carp. While evolutionists will sometimes point out instances where these comparisons have worked out as they expected, those results are unusual. Normally, these comparisons show that the evolutionary histories and relationships which evolutionists claim are nothing more than imagination. As the Bible says, each kind of creature gives evidence to the fact that it was uniquely created by God.
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Ian T. Taylor
For most people, Ian Taylor will always be the voice of Creation Moments. He was born in the UK and lived in Canada until his passing. We were honored and blessed to have such a wonderful and dedicated creationist as part our ministry for so many years. Even now, his radio broadcast programs endure to reach others with the message about the awesome and intricate creation of an awesome and loving God.
Mark W. Cadwallader
Mark is Board Chairman of Creation Moments and has served on the Board since 1996. He holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and has worked as an applied materials scientist and engineer in plastics, specialty chemicals, oil additives, and pollution control for over 30 years. Mark credits the ministry for opening his faith as a young man to the unerring credibility of the Bible in all areas including science, and thus helping to transform his life. Mark has published over 100 articles and conference papers in his scientific field of expertise as well as in Creation Science and apologetics. He writes the Creation Moments monthly newsletter as well as most of the blog articles posted on the ministry’s website. He has also authored books, including “Creation Spelled Out for Us All” and “The Beauty of Truth”.
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