My Anatomy class just finished the Nervous System so I thought I'd share some fun trivia. I honestly don't understand how anyone who knows anything about the human body can deny the existence of a Creator or deny His genius. In just the study of how we work, so many spiritual truths can be learned.
-there are no pleasure sensor cells, there are ones for pain, heat, cold, touch, etc. but pleasure is only experienced from the cooperation of many cells. When you experience pain, only the pain receptors and the cells in pain experience it. When you experience pleasure, every cell in your body changes; they are bathed in hormones and enzymes. It's the same for us isn't it. How much pleasure can you experience alone? We were designed to live in community and we have the most fun when we can cooperate together.
-your eardrum can detect a sound frequency that vibrates it at only 1/billionth of 1 cm (that’s 1/10th the diameter of a hydrogen atom). If our ears were any more sensitive, we would hear the movement of air molecules around us as a constant wooshing sound. And people think you can't hear the voice of God, please!
-A single nerve cell has 1000’s of synapses(junctions) with other neurons. A brain neuron can have as many as 80,000. 1 cubic mm of brain matter contains 1 billion synaptic connections. 5 trillion chemical operations occur in you brain every second. If our little brains can handle 5 trillion operations, God can handle all 6 billion people on the planet praying at once. Suddenly it doesn't seem that inconceivable does it?
-Each second 100 million sensory messages get sent to the brain. Of these, only a few hundred are deemed important and are admitted. So how does your brain decide what's important? It has to do with what your attention is on. Think about it: when you're sitting in a class, your brain knows to admit info like what you hear the teacher saying and what you see on the board, but it doesn't bother with admitting info like what color shirt the person next to you is wearing, even though you see it. That's why we should "focus on things above." When we do, we notice more of what God is doing because that is the info that our brain receives. When we focus on our junk, thats what we experience most. When people say they don't see God at work, it's not because He's not; they just aren't in the brain state to notice. It's why we are "transformed by the renewing of our mind."
-The mind so thrives on stimulation, if you were to cut off stimulation, it would quickly start hallucinating to fill the void, after a few hours, most people would go insane. You were designed to experience this world. You were designed for an abundant life.
-Taste buds only live 3-5 days. If it's been a week since you last had an orange, and you eat an orange, how do you know it tastes like past oranges? Well all your memories of taste lie in the brain, not the tongue. Similiarly, this body passes away but the experience, the memories, the thoughts will not. We are eternal.
-Pain receptors can change the intensity of their signal depending on how much pain they think you can handle that day. God will never give you more than you can handle. He even designed your body to do likewise.
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