FCP-03-HUMAN STRUCTURE.

HUMAN STRUCTURE.

We, His highest Creation, are indeed without excuse if we do not discern the visible evidence of the invisible Creator. Let us consider now some of that evidence beginning with the human body itself a masterpiece of scientific design. It covers many branches so science and we need to look no further than the human structure to find all of the evidence of a Master Designer and Creator. Man is the highest expression of creative genius on this earth. The most intelligent animal alive cannot reason why two and three equal five but man, is able to make calculations, and explore regions, far beyond our sun and solar system and into areas that stagger the imagination when closely looked at, being endowed with the spark of his Divine Creator because ’The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’ Genesis 2:7.

He has reached out into space in distances that can only be expressed in light years and, on the other hand, with the ultra-microscope he has explored things so infinitely small that the average mind can scarcely begin to even grasp its minuteness. For example it is said that the genes responsible for the whole human race on earth would not fill a thimble yet, these genes not only contain the life of every individual, but all their characteristics. This gigantic field is accessible to and has been intelligently investigated by the mind of man who, despite the fact he has this knowledge, stands absolutely helpless as regards improving, in any way, the physical structure of his offspring. At this point I would like to ask the evolutionist two interesting questions.

Let me now draw your attention, very briefly, to a few of the wonders of the human structure. When next you have the opportunity to visit a Museum, make a point of observing carefully a skeleton, or rather, the framework of a human body. Note how wonderfully every part is designed and proportioned for the function it so faithfully fulfills, especially note how all the joints are interlocked to combine strength with flexibility, and that, although the spinal column is designed to allow us to walk in an upright posture, it also allows us to carry huge weights. A strong man can carry hundreds of 200 pound bags of wheat in a day but the strongest of apes has great difficulty in carrying even his own body upright except for short intervals.

Man is built to move with the aid of his legs only, whereas the ape is built to move on all fours. This is consistent as far back as both can be traced, and there are other customs only mankind follows, and have followed, from the earliest of times. For example man has always buried his dead with ceremony whilst no one has ever known an ape, ancient or modern, to bury even its own mate.

Let us return now to the human body and consider the wonderful blood system. The body has millions of cells, nerve, muscle, gland, skin, and bone cells, and each of these cells require a continuous supply of food, water, and oxygen, all of which are distributed through the blood stream and pumped to every part of the body by the heart, that marvelous untiring organ whose arteries have elastic walls which convert the pulsations into a steady continuous stream, and from here a huge network of arteries and veins carries the blood to every part of the body and, something to be noted carefully, also collects chemically processed food from the intestines system and distributes each vitamin correctly and, in addition, oxygen is drawn in through the lungs and distributed just where it is needed. This latter function of the blood is made possible by a chemical which it contains, which has the remarkable power to first absorb oxygen when coming in contact with it, ( for which purpose the lungs are designed), and then, just as readily, releasing it when passing through any part of the body which is lacking in this vital element.

Equally remarkable is the fact that the blood contains another chemical, (fibrogen), which has the power to clot the blood when fully exposed to the air such as in the event of an open cut and if it were not for this provision a person could bleed to death from the smallest puncture just as a bucket of water will empty through a pinhole.

Just one more point of design in this wonderful fluid which has such life-sustaining power. The red and white corpuscles. The red being the workers and life sustainers. The white being the soldiers, because their duty is to fight every enemy of the red corpuscles and, for a simple illustration of how this operates, let us suppose for a moment you pierce your finger. Immediately the white corpuscles attack and rid the blood stream of any poison. Blood poisoning is simply the result of the poison winning the battle against the white corpuscles. Mankind has indeed discovered many ways to help the system but even penicillin cannot take the place of these white corpuscles, at the best it can only restrain the infection until the white corpuscles annihilate the intruders.

Thus far we have only touched on what might be called the every day, and first aids of the blood, but there are many other factors also, especially when profuse bleeding occurs, for a whole series of automatic aids come into operation in order to stem the bleeding and maintain the flow of blood through the heart. For instance, in excessive bleeding, the liver pours out some constituent which clots the blood almost immediately with various safety valves and danger signals being brought into action automatically in order to effect this life saving function. In extreme and critical bleeding the blood, in response to the danger signal, actually stopping supply to various parts of the body non-essential to life, in order to maintain the life-saving flow through the organs essential to life.

Another stupendous witness to our Creator is the marvelous and highly sensitive nerve centre of the human body, which is, in many respects, similar to a huge telephone exchange with thousands of insulated nerve fibers. The brain and the spine represent the exchange from whence these nerve fibers are conveyed. First in bundles, or cables, just as is done in a telephone system and later these branch off into lines connected to every part of the body. Did you know that even to move one finger your mind has to send a message to the brain, which sends a further message to the appropriate connection which conveys the desired movement to the correct nerves and sinews which immediately respond. Your finger has absolutely nothing to do with it. It has no power to move of itself. The same applies for each movement of every member of your body but the central control is called upon to flash more and more signals as the movements concern the more delicate organs until we get combinations of systems involving thousands of these fibers, so complicated that medical science stands aghast at how it all works, even though much research has been done along this line. But of all the organs of the body few can compare with the eye. So marvelous is it in its construction and connections with the brain that little is really known how various colors and objects are expressed to the brain but some idea of the intricate workings can be gathered from the following. In the eyeballs are layers of nerve cells and fibers which, among other things, pick up and convey to the brain what the eye receives and so complicated is this work of transformation that medical science estimates there are about six million nerve cells and one hundred and twenty million fibers!

Little do we realize what is going on in this vast system!

Look at a flower garden.

Forget, for a moment, all the various trees, shrubs, flowers, shapes, sizes, and colors and just take the one color of the foliage, green. Do you realize that practically every plant will have a different shade of green, in fact, a number of shades on each plant? Now, before this can mean anything to us, an enormous amount of information is flashing through this huge system to the brain and, when we add all the other colors, together with everything else that we see in the garden we have an exchange of information in operation which would make the largest telephone system in the world look like a child’s toy in comparison and this barely touches on one function of this wonderful organ, justice to which cannot be done in this short article. And the evolutionist will try and tell us this is one of the end results of evolution!

How different, yet none the less marvelous, is the ear and the drum in connection with the brain.

Two wonderful organs bringing to us two completely different worlds for, what the eye does with light waves, the ear does with sound waves and remember, in themselves they are like the finger, totally helpless to convey anything to us.

Actually the ear cannot hear but is merely a delicate instrument, like a miniature harp, whose strings respond to sound waves and conveyed to the brain through the system much the same as the eye does but there are many remarkable things in connection with the ear that are difficult to express in simple terms. In the brain we have, without a doubt, the most mysterious organ of the body, perhaps the most delicate and the least understood. What we do know is, that it is the main and central control point itself, with control boards and operators represented by nerve cells of which there are said to be 10,000 million! The nerve fibers can pass messages through them up to fifty per second and a machine of comparable capabilities would need an enormous building to house it and all the power of a Niagara Falls to run it. No one is able to cope with this huge system.

We have built computers to play chess and do a multitude of tasks but the most advanced can only make the moves it was programmed to make, it cannot think out a single move. The ingenuity lies not in the machine but in the brain which designed it. It has an advantage in the place for which it was designed but only for that purpose chiefly because it has the power to release, in a few moments, what man’s brain has stored over a long time, but it is limited. No one has the faintest idea of how a human brain handles the work for which it is responsible or how or when it makes a decision and it also the human brain which fixes the gap between man and the highest animal. A part of the human body which I have always considered wonderful is the hand and especially the thumb. Remember. Your hand is of itself quite helpless, yet so designed that, when it is in co-operation with the nerve system and its team of helpers, its powers of craftsmanship are almost unlimited. The human hand complete, is without doubt a marvelous instrument yet, without the thumb it is practically useless. The human foot and leg contain an unique set of mechanism in order to maintain an upright position and give that wonderful balance and spring which enables a man to walk upright without jarring the body. Authorities are agreed that all this marks a tremendous gap between man and the ape. There is absolutely no evidence that any ape had such features, or that any human foot in the past was formed so that it could grasp.

Bio-Chemistry today, like other sciences, has reached a very high standard of efficiency and one might well suggest there must be little in this field beyond its scope. There are 350 or so chemical substances in the human body. The majority so complicated that no bio-chemist can form a formula, and those of known formula could not be produced by any chemical factory at the rate the human body manufactures them. In addition there are highly complicated chemicals called hormones. It is these hormones which are responsible for the variation in the characteristics between male and female such as, tone of voice. It can also stimulate other reactions like the flow of milk in the female breast and many other things.

Perhaps even more remarkable are the complicated substances called enzymes which play a very important part in the functioning of the body.

There are several hundred in number, each working on one particular chemical substance but they often work in teams doing anything from turning milk into curds to the contracting of a muscle.

These enzymes are responsible for all the essential functions of life and so many of these things in connection with these chemical substances that Medical Science is just baffled.

I will not attempt to touch even the fringe of the marvelous array of chemical and other actions which combine to deal with the passage of food through the body, marvels such as the glands, and numerous other wonderful workings of the human body.

Surely the most stubborn of people must realize that behind all this is, not only a Master Mind and Creator, but a Creator of wisdom and power far exceeding human imagination, and the honest person will acknowledge with the Psalmist David ’Surely man is fearfully and wonderfully made.’ Psalms 139:14.