Endorphins at death indicate a beneficent creator, not evolution (Talk.Origins)

Response ArticleThis article (Endorphins at death indicate a beneficent creator, not evolution (Talk.Origins)) is a response to a rebuttal of a creationist claim published by Talk.Origins Archive under the title Index to Creationist Claims.

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Claim CB370:

The body releases endorphins at death, making dying less traumatic. Evolution cannot explain this, because there is no selection pressure for a biological mechanism to help people die peacefully. But it does show evidence of a merciful creator.

Source:

• Easterbrook, Gregg, 9 Dec. 2003. NFL teams should hire psychics, and why, why, why are you punting?!

CreationWiki response:

This is not a creationist claim, and the source is not a creationist source, but an article about football.

The claim is not intended as a scientific statement; the author is simply giving a personal opinion about the afterlife.

Talk Origins is really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. It just shows how desperate they are.