Bulletin 99

"Fearfully Made"
By Bob Tuten
(Lost River Bulletin, Bowling Green, KY March 2002)

        My friends, how would you like to have an automobile that manufactures its own fuel from raw materials, does its own cleaning and repairing, and which would replace its worn out parts?
        Impossible, you say? Yes, for anyone except God (Matt 19:26). "And looking upon them Jesus said to them, 'With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' "
        The human body is just such a marvel of engineering excellence!
        The great engineers of ancient Rome who designed and constructed the dome atop the Pantheon were themselves decked with a dome-shaped skull atop their heads. The famous arch-supported aqueducts of Rome were designed by men with arched feet which give springy support for the body's weight. The arched ribs formed a flexible cage protecting the organs within the chest. The famous Greek and Egyptian columns were conceived by men held upright by two columns, their legs.
        Human bones combine strength and flexibility. The shinbone can bear about thirty times the weight of the man it supports. Iron could do no better and would be far too heavy and inflexible. This marvelous structure is encased in a tissue which neither chips, splinters, nor weathers away.
        The heart far surpasses any pump ever engineered by man. Pulsating an average of 70 times a minute, forty million times a year, this tiny pump moves 7,000 quarts of fluid a day, nearly 200,000 tons in the average lifetime.
        Where in the realm of industrial specialities can one find a high-pressure filtering apparatus like the kidneys? They can filter 200 quarts of fluid daily, though being composed of only two structures, each small enough to fit into the palm of your hand.
        Consider the body's circulatory system. It is made up of about 100 thousand miles of "roads and pipelines" --arteries, veins, and capillaries--which transport the life-sustaining nourishment to some 30,000,000,000,000 cells! The body's five quarts of blood make a complete circuit of this vast system in only about one minute!
        Where among the engineering feats of men can one find a better environmental control system than the human body? It regulates its temperature with an ingenious application of thermostatic control at about 98 to 99 degrees Fahrenheit regardless of surrounding air temperature. Body heat is generated by a process known as metabolism. Molecules of glucose are shattered within the body and energy is subsequently released as heat. The body is cooled by the process of evaporation through perspiration. This is cooling by changing water to vapor, basically the same system now used in modern refrigeration.
        My friends, if you are tempted to say, "There is no God," consider these and many more marvels of your body. The Psalmist addressed God saying, "I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well" (Psa 139:14).
        Truly, "the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God" (Psa. 14: 1).