If you are wrestling with whether or not you're the creation of a loving Creator or the accident of bacteria that evolutionists say came into existence all by itself, then may I suggest that you read the previous three posts and wrap up with this one?
The human body consists of about 75-100 trillion cells, and each cell has about 10,000 times as many molecules as the Milky Way has stars. Three hundred million cells die and are replaced in the human body every minute. All of the DNA in an adult human body could fit inside one ice cube, but if unwound, stretched out and joined end to end, it would reach from the earth to the sun and back again more than 400 times. Scientists estimate that they could fill a 1,000-volume encyclopedia with the coded instructions in the DNA of a single human cell if the instructions could be translated to English.
The epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin, sheds itself at a rate of about a million cells every 40 minutes. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour, about 1.5 pounds a year, and grow all new outer skin cells about every 27 days, almost 1.000 new skins a lifetime. The skin is only about as deep as the tip of a ballpoint pen but the sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created. A human can detect the wing of a bee falling on their cheek from a height of one centimeter. There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being. When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 125 mph. In one square inch of skin we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, four yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors, 75 pressure sensors, 650 sweat glands, 60,000 pigment cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and an average of 32 million bacteria.
The last four blogs have made it abundantly clear that we [humans] are wonderfully made. With the information we now know about the human body, it would seem comical to the highest degree, that one would propose humans are the product of non-living matter that [somehow] just randomly came to be alive and then evolved into the magnificant beings we are today. From non-life to a simple single cell bacteria to someone who writes and reads blogs and makes and uses computers.
To me, it screams "NOT A CHANCE!"
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Evolution versus The Human Body (Part 3 of 4)
Ah, Lake Tahoe. A gorgeous vacation paradise located in both Nevada and California. My wife and I got to go there a couple of years ago for free. What a place. God is good! For a city boy that grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, FL it's a world of magnificant spendor and design. The best vacation my wife and I ever had! Anyway, that's not my point. My point is the design of it all. Everywhere you look, you just have to stare and gawk.
The spendor and design of the human body is without equal anywhere in the known universe. Evolution says that we all evolved from - get this - "non-living matter." In other words, if you choose to believe in evolution, you must accept the fact that you...every part of you...as complex as you are, became living from non-living matter. And somehow, all your genetic code sort of just gathered together and kept evolving over time to make you what you are today...all from something that was never alive to begin with. Sounds far-fetched to me.
Now consider the magnificant spendor and design of the human eye:
As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations. The eyes can perceive more than 1 million simultaneous visual impressions, are able to discriminate among nearly 8 million gradations of color, can distinguish about 500 different shades of gray, and take in more information than the world’s largest telescope. Each time the eye blinks, over 200 muscles move and you blink 25 times a minute or over 6 million times each year. The retina inside the eye covers about 650 square millimeters and contains some 137 million light-sensitive cells; 130 million rod cells for black and white vision and 7 million cone cells for color vision. To focus all this, the muscles of the eye move 100,000 times a day. An eye weighs 1.25 ounces. By the age of 60, our eyes have been exposed to more light energy than would be released by a nuclear blast. Sight accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all sensory perceptions.
You're smart. You tell me: Does it seem logical that all this detail and genetic code randomly came together from non-living matter and somehow kept gaining more genetic code (from where?) to produce your eyes which can do all the above says and more? Honestly, I don't think so.
www.realitychurch.com
The spendor and design of the human body is without equal anywhere in the known universe. Evolution says that we all evolved from - get this - "non-living matter." In other words, if you choose to believe in evolution, you must accept the fact that you...every part of you...as complex as you are, became living from non-living matter. And somehow, all your genetic code sort of just gathered together and kept evolving over time to make you what you are today...all from something that was never alive to begin with. Sounds far-fetched to me.
Now consider the magnificant spendor and design of the human eye:
As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations. The eyes can perceive more than 1 million simultaneous visual impressions, are able to discriminate among nearly 8 million gradations of color, can distinguish about 500 different shades of gray, and take in more information than the world’s largest telescope. Each time the eye blinks, over 200 muscles move and you blink 25 times a minute or over 6 million times each year. The retina inside the eye covers about 650 square millimeters and contains some 137 million light-sensitive cells; 130 million rod cells for black and white vision and 7 million cone cells for color vision. To focus all this, the muscles of the eye move 100,000 times a day. An eye weighs 1.25 ounces. By the age of 60, our eyes have been exposed to more light energy than would be released by a nuclear blast. Sight accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all sensory perceptions.
You're smart. You tell me: Does it seem logical that all this detail and genetic code randomly came together from non-living matter and somehow kept gaining more genetic code (from where?) to produce your eyes which can do all the above says and more? Honestly, I don't think so.
www.realitychurch.com
Monday, February 9, 2009
Evolution versus The Human Body (Part 2 of 4)
Why do you think it is...that when we watch something on the discovery channel about our so-called, pre-historic, ape men ancestors, the producers of the show get all excited about an archeological find like a plate or some sort of crude tool? Among other things, it's at least partly because they've discovered an object that reveals how advanced intellectually they were. Yet, whenever it is mentioned that the incredible makeup of the human body with all of its complexity has to have been made by an author with an intelligence far beyond ours, many simply dismiss it. So I'll ask you a second time..."Why do you think it is?"
Check this out. The heart of an adult beats about 70 to 80 beats per minute, 100,000 times every day, 40 million times a year and in 70 years it will have beaten 2½ billion times. As a pump it produces enough energy in an hour to lift 2000 lb. 3 feet off the ground, and efficiently circulate over 50 million gallons over the average lifetime. In one year, the average human heart circulates from 770,000 to 1.6 million gallons of blood through the body. There are enough tiny blood vessels called capillaries that if placed end to end they would stretch over 2 times around the earth. All this is done with just over a gallon of blood which circulates 1,000 times in a single day through the body on a daily 60,000-mile journey, 168,000,000 miles in a lifetime. A child has 60,000 miles of blood vessels, in an adult there are 100,000. Red blood cells live for a period of only four months and travel between the lungs and other tissues 75,000 times before returning to the bone marrow to die, being replaced by the bone marrow at the rate of 2 to 3 million a second.
Hey, maybe archeologists and other fields of sciences should get all pumped up about how magnificently complex we are. And recognize that just as a crude tool of the pre-historic past had a designer...an architect, so too, we, have an infinitely greater architect in the person we call God.
www.realitychurch.com
Check this out. The heart of an adult beats about 70 to 80 beats per minute, 100,000 times every day, 40 million times a year and in 70 years it will have beaten 2½ billion times. As a pump it produces enough energy in an hour to lift 2000 lb. 3 feet off the ground, and efficiently circulate over 50 million gallons over the average lifetime. In one year, the average human heart circulates from 770,000 to 1.6 million gallons of blood through the body. There are enough tiny blood vessels called capillaries that if placed end to end they would stretch over 2 times around the earth. All this is done with just over a gallon of blood which circulates 1,000 times in a single day through the body on a daily 60,000-mile journey, 168,000,000 miles in a lifetime. A child has 60,000 miles of blood vessels, in an adult there are 100,000. Red blood cells live for a period of only four months and travel between the lungs and other tissues 75,000 times before returning to the bone marrow to die, being replaced by the bone marrow at the rate of 2 to 3 million a second.
Hey, maybe archeologists and other fields of sciences should get all pumped up about how magnificently complex we are. And recognize that just as a crude tool of the pre-historic past had a designer...an architect, so too, we, have an infinitely greater architect in the person we call God.
www.realitychurch.com
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Evolution versus The Human Body (Part 1 of 4)
The human body is nothing short of spectacular. The proponents of evolution claim that we happened to evolve...over time into what we are today. Their premise is: Time + Chance = Life.
To them, Shakespeare was wrong… “To be or not to be” is NOT the question. The question is, “Did God create man, or did man create God?” In other words, “Is man created in the image of God, or is God created in the imagination of man?”
In this four part blog, I want to take you on a journey where you can determine for yourself...with a simple dose of common sense, if you, I, the human race simply evolved over time or was purposely created by a being we call God.
Let's begin this by providing for you the complexity of the human brain:
The human brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in the universe. It controls over 100 billion nerve cells and generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together moving at speeds from 150 to 250 miles per hour (and if you’ve got Starbucks in you, the rate of speed quadruples).
At least 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in the brain every second. The number of possible different combinations of synaptic connections among neurons in a single human brain is larger than the total number of atomic particles that make up the known universe. The storage capacity is estimated to exceed 4 terabytes (terabyte = 1000 billion bytes). It can store, recognize and remember 10,000 different odors and differentiate between up to eight million colors and 500 shades of gray.
Can one really believe that we simply evolved by random chance?
www.realitychurch.com
To them, Shakespeare was wrong… “To be or not to be” is NOT the question. The question is, “Did God create man, or did man create God?” In other words, “Is man created in the image of God, or is God created in the imagination of man?”
In this four part blog, I want to take you on a journey where you can determine for yourself...with a simple dose of common sense, if you, I, the human race simply evolved over time or was purposely created by a being we call God.
Let's begin this by providing for you the complexity of the human brain:
The human brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in the universe. It controls over 100 billion nerve cells and generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together moving at speeds from 150 to 250 miles per hour (and if you’ve got Starbucks in you, the rate of speed quadruples).
At least 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in the brain every second. The number of possible different combinations of synaptic connections among neurons in a single human brain is larger than the total number of atomic particles that make up the known universe. The storage capacity is estimated to exceed 4 terabytes (terabyte = 1000 billion bytes). It can store, recognize and remember 10,000 different odors and differentiate between up to eight million colors and 500 shades of gray.
Can one really believe that we simply evolved by random chance?
www.realitychurch.com
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