The Miracle of the Human Body

Frank Sherwin, MA

War of the Worldviews

Creation science VS Evolutionism

Psalm 139:14
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

The Dogma of Evolutionism

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Dobzhansky, Theodosius. 1973. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. The American Biology Teacher 35 (March): 125-129.

Respiratory Reproductive Digestive Circulatory Immune Excretory Skeletal

Body Systems

 Each cell is surrounded by a bilipid plasma membrane. Critical cellular proteins are found within and without this membrane, as well as being embedded in mosaic patterns inside the two layers.

 This plasma membrane is so complex that researchers refer to it as being alive.

Sodium Pump/Pore

micros copic pumps

Sub-

We have been designed with 1000 sodium pumps per square micron of plasma membrane surface. The total number of sodium pumps for a small neuron is 1 million.

An evolutionary conundrum
Does neo-Darwinism (the synthetic theory) describe, in any shape, form or manner, how one of these pumps could evolve through chance, time, and natural processes?

is a process that occurs in virtually all 75 trillion of our cells, and is one of the most challenging and important areas of inquiry in biochemistry.
Stryer, Lubert. 1995. Biochemistry. 4th ed. New York: WH Freeman & Company. p. 417.

 It is absolutely amazing the complexity of the problem and the simplicity with which the body does it every day.
Ajay Royyuru IBM researcher
Lohr, Steve. 1999. I.B.M. plans a supercomputer that works at the speed of life. The New York Times, 6 December, late edition, sec. C. p. 1.

Incorrectly folded proteins

. . . result in some of the most distressing human diseases and errors

in this process generate misfolded structures that can be lethal.

Ellis, R. John and Teresa J. T. Pinheiro. 2002. Danger-misfolding proteins. Nature 416 (4 April): 483.

 The Creator designed man with 100 billion neurons (brain cells). Each is connected to at least 10,000 other neurons giving well over 500 trillion connections in the brain.

 The brain is a swarm of cells in which everything is seemingly connected to everything else. The connections though, follow a plan, an order
Cosgrove, Mark P. 1987. The Amazing Body Human: Gods design for personhood. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House. p. 145.

 The average number of glial cells (e.g. 2 types of astrocytes) in the brain is 10 to 50 times the number of neurons.

 The total number of neurons is 20 billion - with the total number of synapses (connections) at 240 trillion. The c.c. is only 1.5 4.5 mm thick. The total number of sodium pumps for a small neuron is 1 million.

Eccles, John C. 1989. Preface to Evolution

of the Brain: Creation of the self.

New York: Routledge. p. 9.

While recognizing that much is unknown or only imperfectly known, I have been able to unfold the fascinating story of hominid evolution of the human brain using creative imagination restrained by rational criticism. (emphasis speakers)

Man & chimp differences

Striking differences in morphology and cognitive abilities exist between humans and their closest evolutionary relatives, the chimpanzees.

Enard, et al. Intra-and interspecific variation in primate gene expression patterns Science 296:340-3

 Is only the size of the tip of your thumb and weighs 4 g. Yet it regulates homeostasis as well as thirst, body temperature, water balance, hunger, and blood pressure. It links the endocrine system with the nervous system.

Smell
Human olfactory receptors 40 mill. Dog olfactory receptors - ???

 There are over 10 million cone & rod cells in the retina of the eye. They are packed together with a density of 200,000/sq. mm in the sensitive fovea centralis. Each of these minute photoreceptor cells is vastly more complex than our most sophisticated computer.

Retina
10 billion calculations occur every second in the retina before the image even gets to the brain.

To simulate 10 milliseconds of the complete processing of even a single nerve cell from the retina would require the solution of about 500 simultaneous nonlinear differential equations 100 times and would take at least several minutes of processing time on a Cray supercomputer.

Vision
Photon a single unit of light Amount of light necessary to excite a cone 100 photons Amount of light necessary to excite a rod - ???

We are beginning to know something about the scientific mechanism involved in signal processing of 3-D color vision in real time . . .

But evolutionists are no closer to a scientific explanation of how the eye evolved than Darwin had in the 1860s

Audience experiment

Joints Swallow reflex

Split vision tracking

Our Lungs
Lungs look like a pair of pink sponges. They contain about 600 million tiny air sacs called alveoli and have 750 woven miles of blood vessels. If flattened out, the lungs would cover about 1,000 square feet.

BONE
Your bone is stronger than granite. A block of bone half the size of a computer mouse can support 10 tons four times the capacity of concrete! In the adult, the marrow of flat bones makes 2.5 million RBCs/second.

Breaking news!
August, 2007: Scientists at Columbia U MC have discovered that the skeleton is also an endocrine organ controlling sugar metabolism & weight. The hormone osteocalcin made by osteoblasts is a crucial hormone designed to interact with beta cells of the pancreas.

Have a heart. . .
It beats at least 2.8 billion times during the average life span resting between beats. During this time it pumps 600,000 tons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels. If skeletal (voluntary) muscle tried to do what the heart does day out & day in it would be useless within minutes.

Immune system origin?

There is still much debate on how the vertebrate immune system evolved and even less consensus on its relationship to defense systems in invertebrates.
Gerhart, John and Marc Kirschner. 1997. Cells, Embryos & Evolution. Malden, MA: Blackwell Science. p. 161.

Human Evolution?
This story starts with a bang, if for no better reason than there are no fossils that document humankinds initial and presumably painful descent from the trees.

Tattersall, Ian. 1995. The Fossil Trail: How we know what we think we know about human evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. (see also Annual Review of Anthropology, 1995, pp. 240-241

Therefore, it is believed that the last common ancestor between the African apes and hominids lived during the Pliocene epoch. Unfortunately, this common ancestor has not yet been found.
Mader, Sylvia S. 1998. Biology. 6th ed. Boston: WCB McGraw-Hill. p. 353.

The story of human evolution has lately become as complicated as a Tolstoy novel.
Gibbons, Ann. 1996. Homo erectus in Java: A 250,000-year anachronism. Science 274 (13 December): 1841-1842.

Breaking News!
August, 2007: More problems with the human evolution story. Once again the chart showing the progression of apelike creature-to-human must be trashed & redrawn! Darwinists are now saying Homo habilis & H. erectus lived at the same time, after stating for decades habilis evolved into erectus.

Genomes are not recipes. A creature that shares 98.4% of DNA with humans is not 98.4% human any more than a fish that shares, say, 40% is 40% human.

Image 1995-1996 by Paul Thiessen / paul@ChemicalGraphics.com

I am skeptical of arguments, like those of the molecular biologists, based on long strings of theoretical assumptions.
Trefil, James. 1996. 101 Things You Dont Know About Science and No One Else Does Either. New York: Mariner Books. p 269

We share half our genes with the banana.

May, Robert (UK chief scientist). 2000. Quoted in Andy Coglan and Nell Boyce, The end of the beginning, New Scientist 167 (July 1):5

Gee, Henry. 2001. Return to the planet of the apes. Nature 412 (12 July): 131.

Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations. Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is absent altogether.

Another Face in Our Family Tree

"The evolutionary history of humans is complex and unresolved. It now looks set to be thrown into further confusion
Lieberman, Daniel E. 2001. Another face in our family tree. Nature 410 (22 March): 419-420.

Macroevolutionist Meg Rudolph calls Australopithecus a hodge-podge genus.

(2001 From tree to tumbleweed Geotimes 46 (May):7)

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him: male and female created He them.
Genesis 1:27

True Research
Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of the evidence.