Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Does the Close distance between the pH levels of Human Blood and Seawater Shows Evolutionary Evidence?



pH is a measurement of the acidity or basicity of a
substance. The pH levels range from 0-14. A pH level less than 7 is considered
acidic and higher than 7 is considered basic. A pH level of 7 is neutral. The
pH levels have to deal with the amount of hydrogen ions or hydroxide ions that
is within the solution. This first happens with the splitting of water
molecules which leaves the H+ and OH-.
A hydrogen atom leaves the water molecule and looses an electron, thus having a positive charge (H+). Also, it gains a proton. The water molecule that lost its proton is a hydroxide ion, OH-,
which has a negative 1 charge. Acids are substances that increased the amount of hydrogen ions (H+) in a solution. A base reduces the hydrogen ion concentration by forming hydroxide ions (OH-)
ions. Since below 7 on the pH scale shows the levels of acidic solution, it
would also be found that there are higher amounts of hydrogen ions (H+) as the levels decrease. Also there would be a decreasing amount of OH-
ions. The ph levels that are above 7 are considered basic. There is an
increasing amount of OH- ions than H+ ions in the solution. The pH level of 7 is neutral which means that there is an equal amount of H+ ions and OH- ions.
Human blood has the normal pH of around 7.41. Anywhere above or below this pH level in
human blood could be harmful to the cells that are sensitive to the H+ and OH-
concentrations. pH level is adjusted by buffers which minimize changes in the
concentrations of H+ and OH- by either accepting H+ ions in the solutions
when they are in excess or donating hydrogen ions to the solution when they are
depleted. Seawater has a pH level of around 8.
With the pH levels of human blood and seawater being so close, could there be evolutionary relationships? In an article: Does the Similarity of Human Blood to Sea Water Prove Life Originated in the Ocean? By John D. Morris, Ph.D., Morris states that human blood and seawater are nothing similar, therefore there is no evidence between the two. He made several clear points on the topic. He stated that although both may contain many of the same salts, the concentration of dissolved particles in blood are very different than that of seawater. The primary make ups in blood are sodium and chlorine. However, in seawater, it has three times as much sodium and five times as chlorine per unit weight. Also, it contains eight times as much calcium and fifty times
as much magnesium. Some dissolved salts in blood are greater than that in
seawater. Blood has two hundred times more zinc, two hundred and fifty times
more iron, and one thousand times more copper. Also, another clear point to be
made is that the these comparisons are made against modern day seawater, not
seawater from when humans started forming. The concentrations could have been
different then. Also, what Morris looked at is that it is not just the mineral
concentrations, it is also the cell’s DNA which uses these minerals to
form protiens and enzymes, transport systems, and protection against harmful
chemicals. However, seawater prevents these formations of life.
On the other side of the coin......
article: Is the Sodium Chloride Level in the Oceans Evidence for Abiogenesis? by Jerry Bergman
Most evolutionists held on to the consideration that homo sapiens evolved from life forms that originated from the chemical evolution of the water and later moved out of the water to dry land. Evolutionists note that human tissue is constantly moistened by a briny solution that is similar to the salt and mineral level found in oceans and many salt lakes in the past. Scientist R.L. Berg stated in his book, The Origin of Life on Earth, " The most important arguments in favor of the hypothesis that life originated exclusively in the ocean, are first, the similarity between the salt compostiion of the body fluids of land animals and that of the waters of the ocean." He adds that this could only be accounted for, only by evolution.


I want to know your view with this topic. What are your ideas? Do you believe that human blood and seawater shows evidence of evolution or do you believe that there are no ties between the two?

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