THE
MIRACULOUS HUMAN BODY

Topics: Body; Creation; God’s Wisdom

Reference: Romans 1:20

The average human heart pumps more than a thousand gallons a day and more than fifty-five million gallons in a lifetime. That is enough to fill thirteen supertankers. The heart never sleeps, beating 2.5 billion times in a lifetime.

The lungs contain a thousand miles of capillaries. The process of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide is so complicated that it is more difficult to exchange O2 for CO2 than for a man shot out of a cannon to carve the Lord’s Prayer on the head of a pin as he passes by.

Human DNA contains about two thousand genes per chromosome, and 1.8 meters of DNA are folded into each cell nucleus, which is six microns long. This is like putting thirty miles of fishing line into a cherry pit. And it isn’t simply stuffed in. It is folded in. If folded one way, the cell becomes a skin cell; if another way, a liver cell; and so forth. To write out the information in one cell would take three hundred volumes, each five hundred pages thick. The human body contains enough DNA that if it were stretched out, it would circle the sun 260 times.

The body uses energy efficiently. If an average adult rides a bike for one hour at ten miles per hour, the body uses the amount of energy contained in three ounces of carbohydrate. If a car were this efficient with gasoline, it would get nine hundred miles to the gallon.

—Dr. John Medina, genetic engineer, in a 1995 lecture at Multnomah Bible College, Portland, Oregon