Moses reveals that blood is the essence of life
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Claim
In the Bible Moses reveals that our blood is the essence of life (Lev. 17:11).
Source
- Grant, Jeffrey R., 1998. The Signature of God. Word Publishing, p. 154.
- Morris, Henry, 2002. The Biblical Basis for Modern Science. Master Books, p. 371
Responses
- Blood is indeed necessary for human (or vertebrate) life. However, blood is not necessary for all life forms, so identifying it as the essence of life is dubious at best. Reproduction is essential to life, for instance, as is mucus.
- This is usually brought up as evidence for the divine inspiration of the Bible, however the knowledge that blood is essential for life hardly requires a supernatural explanation given that the loss of blood is one of the most obvious reasons for death even if you do not understand anything about how the human body works.
- Not all animals have blood. On the other hand, all organisms (plants, fungi, animals and everything else) produce mucus, which enables them to dissolve and absorb gaseous oxygen.
- Tardigrades don't even need water to survive, given as how their cryptobiosis allows them to wait years for better times. So what is the essence of their life?
- Both primitive single celled organisms and individual cells of multicellular organisms do not have blood either and instead possess cytoplasm which allows the cell to retain its shape and also allows functions such as movement and cell expansion to occur safely within the cell.
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