The Periodic Table and religion

[Jenny A]

I was having a look at the Periodic table the other day and it got me thinking. There are a decent number of elements have have zero use in human biology, and many are actually a hindrance to biological functions. For example, radioactive elements will cause cancer, others are toxic to humans and so on. Would the Earth, perhaps, be even more perfect without elements such as Uranium and Polonium?

Isn't it rather curious that humans just so happen to be primarily constructed (maybe that's the wrong word) of the most common elements in our universe? Could a "Chemical Argument Against God" a good argument? How do you think a Theist may respond? I've mentioned previously my father has a doctorate in Chemistry.

Personally, I don't see how either the fact that living organisms are made out of the most common elements and are allergic to others has any baring on whether there is a god one way or another.  You might however use it to suggest that if there is a god, either he is not benevolent or he didn't design the universe with humans in mind.

But since theists don't take disease, drought, hurricanes, volcanoes, or earthquakes, as proof of the lack of existence of god, I doubt a little uranium is going to bother them much.  Many religions already believe that man was made out of what looked like the most common substance to them at the time:  dirt.  So if the purpose of the argument  is to convince theists, I'm pretty sure it's a no go.