John Clayton
Your brain makes up
two per cent of your body,
but twenty per cent of
the blood that comes
from your heart flows to
your brain. Your brain is
the most protected organ
in your body. The 100-
200 billion cells that
make up your brain are
guarded
by three different layersÄthe scalp, the skull, and a set of membranes
that envelope the brain and spinal cord called meninges.
The brain has two types of cellsÄneurons and neuroglia. The
neurons transmit information throughout the brain. The neuroglia
protect the neurons. You are born with a fixed number of brain cells
which you gradually lose. By the age of three, a human has lost half of
the brain cells you had at birth, and while that loss rate decreases, the
losses occur none-the-less. The brain compensates for these losses by
changing its structureÄconnections between neurons change and
become more complex. Different parts of the brain control different
functions for us sight, hearing, etc., and even memory occurs in its own
section of the brain.
We marvel at computers and the people who build them and program
them. The human brain is so enormously more complex than any
system man has designed. To suggest that this device which builds
computers, creates art and music, and expresses the beauty of literature
and mathematics could arise by chance defies any logical viewpoint of
what we are. The Psalmist said it best when he said "I will praise thee
Lord, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made and that my soul knoweth
right well" (Psalm 139:14)
This article taken from: Does God Exist?, July/Aug 1998.
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