Author's interpretation · Science, belief and shared biology
God's Design and the Biology We Share
A personal reflection by Archil Jaliashvili on the order of the universe, the biology shared by species, and our responsibility to protect life.
- Shared biology
- Oxygen delivery
- Respect for life
Willie Soon's reflection on Dirac's work
In a 2024 interview with Tucker Carlson, astrophysicist Willie Soon discussed why the relationship between mathematics and physical reality strengthens his belief in God. He pointed to Paul Dirac's work, which led to the prediction of antimatter before its experimental discovery.
Dirac published The Quantum Theory of the Electron in 1928. Carl Anderson discovered the positron in 1932. Soon interprets the mathematical order behind this history as evidence of divine intelligence. That is his philosophical and theological interpretation of a scientific achievement.
My interpretation: the biology we share
I believe that God's design can also be seen in the biology shared by humans and many other species. Different bodies, different environments, different ways of living. Yet hemoglobin carries oxygen in so many of us. For me, that shared biology gives the words 'We be of one blood, ye and I' a meaning that reaches beyond literature.
Hemoglobin is an oxygen-binding core around which protective and regulatory systems operate. Red blood cells, circulation, vascular control, microcirculation and tissue exchange contribute to how oxygen reaches living tissue.
The details differ between species. Hemoglobin properties and physiological regulation are adapted to different conditions. A shared biological function connects these differences without making the systems identical.
How this connects with BHOC
BHOC, Biological Hemoglobin Oxygen Carrier, is being developed within Precision Oxygen Therapeutics. It builds on hemoglobin's oxygen-binding function, with the aim of supporting oxygen delivery when that function is compromised.
This is how I think about our work: understand the biological function, learn how nature supports it, and investigate how that knowledge can help a patient. The practical research questions concern the specific product, the species, the clinical setting and the evidence.
From shared biology to species protection
The BHOC Species & Biodiversity Protection Initiative connects veterinary oxygen-delivery research with wildlife health, emergency care and species conservation. It brings the same biological question into the care of companion animals, domestic animals, wildlife and endangered species.
I believe that understanding what living beings share should change how we care for them. For me, shared biology carries a responsibility: to use what we learn to protect life.
We be of one blood, ye and I.
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
Different species. The same biological need: oxygen.