Question6.com: The gist of our life
To investigate the purpose of our life, we need to know how our body, our soul and our brain are working together.
Our body is way above our head -)
The human brain is very limited compared with the complexity of the vast universe that our body belongs to. We don’t even know all the chemistry necessary to digest a simple meal.
It is more than regular maintenance. There is some creation involved.
Remove 75% of a liver and the body will completely rebuild the whole liver.
Starfish can regenerate their body.
Sharks continually shed their teeth.
At first, the human body looks rather simple: one trunk, one head, two legs and two arms. This is a very common template that has been used by many animals before us. There is also something particular to everyone. It is their face where you can find a lot of information that differentiates one individual from the other. In short, a human body belongs to a species, but this species is made up of separate and different individuals.
The human body is much more complicated than anything a human brain can conceive:
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30000 to 50000 different proteins
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60000 different kinds of toxins
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Between 75000 and 100000 genes
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More than one million different kinds of bacteria are in your mouth alone.
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10 million different types of blood cells
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The human body has 30 to 40 trillion cells.
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Trillions of cells organized in groups within groups and reacting with other groups.
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Every second our body completes about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein containing 10000 atoms in 574 amino acids.
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The number of organisms in the digestive system is: 100 000 000 000 000.
It is so complicated that we had to divide our medical profession into more than 100 different specialties such as Urology – Neurology – Cardiology – Ophthalmology – Pathology…. And many more.
What did we do to deserve such a sophisticated body? Was it a mistake?
1 - The human body
The human body was designed to last 120 to 140 years. Jeanne Louise Calment lived 122 years and 164 days from 21 Feb 1875 to 4 August 1997. We still have a lot to learn in this domain. See the 60 mn video.
It is interesting to compare our life expectancy with other animals.
Medicine and a better hygiene prolonged our life expectancy from 40 to 80 years. This is a good start, but we are only halfway. We gained 40 years, and we have 40 more years to go. We started by using our linear way of thinking: one symptom – one illness – one treatment. In the second half, we may get different assortments of causes that can produce different illnesses requiring different treatments depending on the patient. Our grandchildren may think of medicine without A.I. like we think of life without computers.
At birth, our environment changes from the womb to the environment of planet earth. It will be our responsibility, all our life, to do for our body what our mother did for the embryo and provide our body with food and shelter. We can assume that the same process could continue after our death. Could we move from the environment of planet earth to the solar system? Why not?
Let’s keep moving!
Our body is made of atoms, but those atoms don’t stay in our body. They follow their own cycle. An atom of calcium that is today in our skeleton might have been in the shell of an egg and could be on its way to a fish in the ocean.
The human body is made of a deviation in the cycles of atoms.
Mother nature keeps those atoms circulating between trees, oceans, microbes, viruses and humans. It is a continuous creation. The atoms could remain the same but the way they are combined keeps changing. We know that in the past they made dinosaurs. Their production was discontinued. Their atoms must have been put to better use. According to the scientists the atoms are immortal (but you may want to question the experience that the scientists have of immortality).
We pretend to dominate the universe, and we find that our own body is nothing more than some traffic regulation.
We are carried by the flow and pretend
to be the captain of our ship!
We could look at the world as a sea of atoms and individuals as icebergs on that sea. What we call death is the melting of those icebergs getting recycled.
There is a flow of energy.
Those atoms are not moving at random. They serve a certain purpose. Without our sun, planet earth would be nothing more than a very cold piece of rock. It is this energy from our sun that makes the plants grow. Plants feed animals and humans. The energy that we absorb from our food is used to keep us warm and moving. However, about 20% of this energy is sent to the brain.
That makes us part of a cycle. The sun sends us some energy that goes through our material world and is returned as energy to the brain. This energy cycle could be the ‘Mother cycle’, above all the cycle of carbon, the cycle of nitrogen and all the cycles our scientists are talking about.
We may be a very small part of the universe, but we are part of something really great.
Virgin birth: There are many things that we don't understand about our body, and there are a lot more that we don't know. In the Louisville zoo, a female python gave birth to 6 little pythons without being in contact with a male. We are told in the same article that virgin births also happened to chickens, turkeys, komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, amphibians, reptiles, cartilaginous fish and even songbirds. It is called parthenogenesis. It happens for reasons we don't quite understand.
Think about it: If we don't mow the lawn, the grass will reproduce through the seeds. The grass has two ways to reproduce, through the roots and through the seeds. If the python can reproduce without a male and the grass has two ways to reproduce, it would not be impossible for humanity to have more than one way to reproduce.
A woman who was studying the Bible had shelves full of different bibles in her library. In one of them, under John XIII, you could read that man has five ways to reproduce. Yes! Five ways! The act of flesh is only one of them. It was under John XIII instead of the washing of the feet. We searched many bookstores but never found another copy of this bible. Let us know if you ever find such John XIII in a bible.
Because we know many details, we assume that we know everything. We may still have many things to learn about human reproduction. Imagine that, someday, our scientists tell us that some of us do not have a biological father! What a pandemonium! They may already know about it, but nobody wants to open this can of worms!