MONTHLY MEETING: February 21, 2026

The Creator's Amazing Design for Sugar

Dr. Mark Demming

There are four groups of molecules that stand out as the basic building blocks that form life: sugars, amino acids, nucleic acids and lipids. No life exists on earth that does not use all four, and they are interconnected. You cannot have one without the others. Dr. Deming will focus on the sugar group collectively called carbohydrates and show where we find them in the parts we can’t see and in the large structures that are built from them that we can see. He will then do a little tracing of how these sugars are used for energy from the simplest cell to us. We will see details on what is going on in ALL of life, forming a bigger picture that is astonishing! These details are all on the internet and accessible if you know what to look for … that is hidden in plain sight. What we will find is that life is not as natural as we have been told, yet the implications are “Sweeter than honey in the honeycomb.”

Dr. Mark Demming earned a bachelors degree in chemistry in 1986 from California State University at Los Angeles, CSULA, and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1992 from the University of Southern California, USC, where he did research on the mechanisms of carbon-hydrogen activation at Osmium phosphate molecules. He has taught chemistry at Pasadena Community College and when moving to the northwest has spent most of his time teaching chemistry and mathematics at Portland Community College and is presently retired. He has presented lectures at DSA in the past on the Human Genome Project and on the Engineering Marvels of Cholesterol. He has been married for 42 years and has two grown children.

We meet usually on the third Saturday of each month from 9:00 am to 11:30 am at:
Greater Portland Bible Church
2374 SW Vermont Street
Portland, OR 97219

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