Think You Can Solve the ‘Mother of all Chicken and Egg Problems’ of Your Body?
You know what a “chicken-and-egg” problem is, right? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? If it’s the first egg, how could it be laid without a chicken? If it’s the chicken, how did the egg become fertilized?
Engineer Steve Laufman is co-author with Physician Howard Glicksman of “Your Designed Body.”
Now think about an unborn child in the womb. It’s in the process of growing all of the internal systems that are essential for life, yet the baby is clearly alive as it develops before all of those internal systems are present.
Just to cite one key example, an unborn child’s heartbeat is detectable with a vaginal ultrasound sometimes as early as the sixth week of the pregnancy, according to Healthline.
Engineer Steve Laufman explains in the following short video why he believes the unborn baby being alive before all of the internal systems essential to life are present is the ultimate chicken-and-egg problem for secular evolutionism:
My favorite chicken/egg problem is the DNA/protein problem. Proteins are necessary for many operations involving DNA but the proteins themselves are coded in the DNA. You can’t have functioning DNA without the proteins that operate on it, you can’t have the proteins without them being coded in the DNA.
I imagine the “what is the sound of one hand clapping” smile on the face of my Savior.
People have posited solutions to the problem, a special no longer existing tRNA-like molecule under a rock putting the whole thing together over eons. A faith-based solution.
I thought ID was not merely Creationism by another name?
May I respectfully suggest that you give the game away by referring to evolutionary science as “secular evolutionism”? Science has nothing to do with being secular or non-secular. It simply seeks to understand how nature works without careening off into theological pontificating that is beyond its competence.
How exactly does a developing baby present a “challenge” to evolution? (If anything, the opposite is true: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.)