Well this isn't a list of digestable allotropes, however it is a list of the allotropes of carbon.  More than i was originally aware of, so i've learnt something new from this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_carbon

On the topic of which are digestible i'd go for none of them.

Plenty of molecules that have carbon as a constituent part are digestible, but then plenty are not. Clearly carbon isn't the constituent vital element to aid digestion.

Yeah, the energy derived from the break down of a glucose molecule actually comes from the breaking of the chemical bonds.  The energy is put in by the process of photosynthesis, but this might be going down a path that we don't need to take.

GoodScienceForYou wrote on Dec 25^th, 2009 at 5:08pm:


Still stupid? Wow. Now, why don't YOU go look it up, what photosynthesis actually does...

Volcano Girl wrote on Dec 25^th, 2009 at 4:13pm:


Sidestepping is a common part the the mental illness associated with Evodelusionism.

CARBONDIOXIDE.  I GUESS THAT IS NOT CARBON?

The other common disease is called "sideways logic" where the belief fuels the conclusions and what is right in front of your nose is never seen. Brainwashing is so strong that people see things that are not there and they can't see what is obvious.

We are only talking about the fact that bacteria adapts and does not evolve into some new creature.
Not one single, single celled creature has ever become complex, added new cell with new functions.
Bacteria will have changed to DNA that either kill it or it lives to eat carbon based "digestable" forms of carbon and it produces enzymes.  It has never done any new functions.


The frameshift mutation of bacteria did not change it into some other creature.  It still eats and makes carbon and does nothing else. It did not "evolve".

It adapts to survive and it is programmed to survive under some severe situations, because with out bacteria you and I would not live. It is a primary component to organic life. 

It never evolves, but it adapts to survive.  And if you take the same bacteria and starve it of nylon, it will find something else to eat and adapt to that or it will die.

There is no science in Evodelusionism, because it is a religion with magical causes and mystical creatures that never existed.

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Could you point out where anyone said bacteria evolved into a new creature?

GoodScienceForYou wrote on Dec 25^th, 2009 at 5:08pm:


What the god damned f**k????

I mean SERIOUSLY????

Photosynthesis (photo - light, synthesis - making) is the process by which carbon dixoide and water are combined in the presence of chlorophyll and sunlight to create glucose and oxygen.  Plants take in CO2 via the stomata in their leaves and water through their roots, these raw ingredients are transported to the palisade cells where they are then taken to the chloroplasts. In the chloroplasts is the chlorophyll which uses the energy delivered by the photons in sunlight to catalyze the reaction of both chemicals into glucose, with oxygen being the by product.  The energy is stored in the chemical bonds on the glucose molecule where it can be liberated during respiration.

Here is a balanced chemical equation for the process, appologies for not being able to do subscript correctly.

6CO2 + 6H2O -------(with chlorophyll and sunlight energy)----> C6H12O6 + 6O2