The Body Human (Part 1)

For a while I have looked for a book written by a medical doctor which would describe the human body and how intricately it is created. During the Thanksgiving holiday I borrowed a book entitled “What Darwin Didn’t Know” by Geoffrey Simmons, M.D. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I have found such a book.

I may get into the thesis of the book later, but for this post, I would like to provide a suggestion for the reader. I suggest we do not have to go out into nature (however this is a good thing to do) to be able to see the beauty of His creation. We have only to contemplate our bodies and how He created us to be able to breathe, walk, love, and do all the things which make us human. We can see His wonderful design. We can see His love for us.

The author provides an understanding of the intricacies of the human body when he writes, “The interior of the human body is a much busier place than New York City, London, Mexico City, Tokyo, and Bombay combined. Ten to seventy-five trillion cells participate in more than a quadrillion purposeful chemical interactions each day that help us walk, breathe, think, sleep, procreate, see, hear, smell, feel, digest food, eliminate waste, write, read, talk, make red cells, remove dead cells, fight infections, behave, misbehave, absorb nutrients, transport oxygen, eliminate carbon dioxide, maintain balance, carry on dialogue, understand instructions, argue, and make complex decisions, just to name a few common activities. In addition, each of these processes has dozens – and sometimes hundreds – of smaller, interacting steps, checks, counterchecks, balances, and regulatory mechanisms. And further, all of these steps have smaller chemical substeps. In many ways the human body functions like an extremely well-organized blizzard of invisible chemical responses and rapidly-changing electrical impulses. The human brain is a convoluted continent swept by microscopic electrical hurricanes and chemical tidal waves that somehow make sense out of reality on a microsecond-by-microsecond basis.” (P. 16)

Future posts will provide a deeper look into the creation of the senses and various systems of our body.