fair enough

Ah cool, I recently finished my nutrition degree which surprisingly had a lot more biochemistry and medicine than I ever thought It would. I'd imagine what youre doing would have gone far beyond anything I had to learn though.

Any interesting findings you're allowed to share?

fair enough

lol you do realise that a lot of the practices, knowledge and science from ancient Greece came from Egypt right?

That includes the caduceus

you think guys like pythagoras came up with all of the knowledge they had? lol no they learned it in Egypt and brought it up to Europe

Most of my PhD research has involved proteins which react with nitric oxide to form nitrate.  Nitric oxide has turned out to be an important signalling molecule in the cardiovascular and nervous systems specifically, but we know that at higher concentrations it can be detrimental so work is being done to look at the systems by which your body might get rid of nitric oxide so that it doesn't build up to detrimental levels.  One such protein is Myoglobin which some previous research had indicated would produce high concentrations of other toxic compounds so it couldn't be the main way in which nitric oxide is detoxified.  My research indicated that this wasn't actuallythe case and that high concentrations of toxic compounds were not built up during the reaction.  It also seems to indicate that the current assumed reaction mechanism of forming peroxynitrite at the heme which will then rearrange in some way to form nitrate might not be true which would indicate a concerted reaction between oxygen and nitric oxide to form nitrate.  If you have access to ACS here's the link to the article: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic400697a

Right now I'm writing up a paper on a protein from Tuberculosis that does the same reaction which we are interested in because it does the same reaction as myoglobin but does it incredibly efficiently.  All the experiments are done and now I'm working on the write up with my advisor.  

Mostly I'm just writing my thesis though which will be done in two months and I'll finally have my PhD and move on in my career.

Apologies if that was an overly long explanation, and we're quickly veering off topic so if you'd like to continue the discussion beyond this I'll suggest we do so through walls or PMs.

"All of your points are arguments from ignorance."

with that being said why not list one of the two i expounded on and clarify how its ignorant?

"None of them point to a god"

they point to intelligence... observing the world as a human its quite clear that regardless of the diversity in nature laws that exhibit a great complexity are generally created by us

therefore complex laws from our experience are directly associated with intelligence do you disagree with that ascertion?

"You simply state that you don't understand how they can be how they are without god"

i clarified this above according to our experience of the world complex laws appear to only be formed by entities that exhibit intelligence

" The problem is your knowledge and nothing else."

well there is no information that contradicts my assertion or in other words no one can definitively prove that the universe was not created so...

1) They do not point to an intelligence. These "laws" (I'm not even sure I'd call them laws) you're referring to are just descriptions. Nothing points to them being proscribed by anything other than us as a way to desribe our world. The examples you gave demonstrate you're just making whimsical ascertions.  Hot and cold are opposites? What does that mean? There's just more heat or less heat. If one room is 10 kelvin and another is 150 kelvin which one is the hot based on your experience? What is the opposite of 2 degrees Kelvin based on your human experience? 

2) "there is no information that contradicts my assertion or in other words no one can definitively prove that the universe was not created so"

There's your problem again. "My creator fits here and you can't prove to me that my creator doesn't exist". Nothing contradicts Last Thursday-ism or Solipsism either. I guess those are both right.

"These "laws" (I'm not even sure I'd call them laws) you're referring to are just descriptions. "

yes laws, rules etc are generally descriptive since they describe conditions that processes function by that should be obvious

" Hot and cold are opposites? What does that mean? "

"There's just more heat or less heat."

lol it means just what i posted the opposite of something is the lack or reversal of it or in other words when there's less of something 

when there's less light you move closer to darkness

when there's less happiness you go closer to sadness

when there's less good there's more bad 

when there's less freedom you go closer to slavery etc etc etc

"If one room is 10 kelvin and another is 150 kelvin which one is the hot based on your experience? What is the opposite of 2 degrees Kelvin based on your human experience? "

this is why i said that there is a spectrum between two opposing forces or in other words there's a scale between the two

"There's your problem again. "My creator fits here and you can't prove to me that my creator doesn't exist""

i backed what i said up by stating that complex laws are generally creations coming from intelligence if you disagree with that that's cool

So your basis of argument for a creator is because we can't explain or don't understand the Universe , then the only answer is that we cannot because of a creator. I guess the Earth was flat when people believed it to be, and only became spherical once it was discovered to be as such. It's almost as if you believe scientific discovery and understanding will come to a standstill and not progress along with the human species.

Very interesting... and the opposite of DNA or RNA is?

Not everything have an opposite. And sine or cosine aren't opossites, they are just a waveform.

Why do we keep creating this religious threads on VGC that is basically one side that won't ever accept that god may not exist or be as they describe while the other side won't accept that we just have to believe something is true if it can't be proved or disproved... it's just useless.