Laminin!

My nephew yesterday informed be about laminin. Laminin is a molecule that holds cell membranes together. What is so fascinating to fundies about this molecule seems to be that it is usually depicted in diagrams shaped like a cross. In this YouTube video, Louie Giglio shows a diagram of it and the audience gasps! Of course, Giglio explains that this is proof of God and that Jesus is holding our cells together.



The cross shape is a simple geometric pattern. I bet there are many other molecules that can be diagramed as a cross. As a matter of fact, you can unfold a cube into the shape of a cross. Jumping to the conclusion that a molecule that can be diagramed as a cross is significant, is fallacious.

This is not much different than classic pareidolia, except that in this case the pattern is not random, but a simple geometric shape. The significance lies in the fact that Christians are taught that the cross has significance. So when a simple geometric pattern shows up in nature, it supposedly prooves that God left his signature in the very structure of the cell?

Edit:
This isn't the first time I've come across Louie Giglio. He enters the realm of astronomy here. I had trouble watching this. He pirated someone elses animation, then he botches the pronunciation of most of the stars. He also confuses the constellation Canis Majoris with a star in that constellation. I think he should stick to the Bible and leave science alone.

Edit:
I posted a copy of this article on the Fayetteville Freethinkers Forum. It generated some good discussion about other molecules with fasinating structures (with pictures).