RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs (healthy diet for vitamin c)

James Patterson said:
"No enzyme to create vitamin C means a healthier diet is needed."

What is "healthy?" It is defined as giving your body what it needs to thrive. If our copy of genes were correct, we could make our own vitamin c, and wouldn't need an external source. If we made our own, then there would be nothing "healthier" about a diet with vitamin c if our body made all it needed. It is only healthy to eat oranges now because our copy of the gene for the vitamin c enzyme doesn't work.

Maybe someday we'll fix the gene with gene therapy?

,,,Bernie

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of james000777@bellsouth.net
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:58 PM
To: gordon brown; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs (Cheek turning)

I had the same answer when we discussed this at RTB (I am a volunteer apologist there). No enzyme to create vitamin C means a healthier diet is needed. I still haven't seen a good reply, except that because the gene doesn't work it must be "broken".

James Patterson

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Received on Wed Oct 29 15:11:31 2008