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Bamboozling Bugs

16 March 2006

     The 16 March 06 daily feature for the young earth creation science ministry Creation Moments discusses the possibility that people thousands of years ago were aware of the preservative nature of bamboo.

     The author tells about how wrapping food in bamboo seems to inhibit bacteria.  These natural antibacterial agents found in bamboo are now being studied, to see if it can have any uses in human food production.

     The young earth author suggests that thousands of years ago, humans may have known that bamboo would keep their food from spoiling.  If so, that is great, but it has nothing to do with the creation debate.  Many discoveries by ancient peoples could easily have come from them trying different methods of food preservation.  They discovered that bamboo worked the best.  There is nothing mystical or divine about this.

     The authors make the implication that Adam and Eve had perfect knowledge about God's creation, and they could have known from God putting the knowledge in their mind about this feature of bamboo (if Adam had perfect knowledge, why did he not create the tractor, instead of "toiling with the soil"!). 

   While this information on bamboo is interesting, it has nothing to do with the creation account.  Evolutionists will have no problem explaining how this was discovered via experimentation, thus it is a useless argument in witnessing to an evolutionist.

     As Christians we should thank God for the way He designed plants and the many uses that we have found for them.  However, this claim is typical of Creation Moments claims.  It is strictly a "God of the Gaps" type emotional argument (this is wonderful...God must have done it).  Presenting such an argument in defense of creation is a pointless exercise in futility...it will strengthen those who already believe, but will do nothing to argue for your position with the atheist or old earth creationist.

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