QUESTION6.com
The world we live in
Let’s go back to the beginning. A newborn baby opens his eyes for the first time.
”Where am I ?’ What is this place? What is this body? I want to get out of here. I want to fly. This is a mistake. I want to go back home. I want to go back to sleep and go back home”.
Unfortunately, we are prisoners of a body and there is no way out.
Our body is way above our head. What is under our skin is much more complicated than anything a human brain can conceive:
-
30 000 to 50 000 different proteins
-
60 000 distinct kinds of toxins
-
Between 75 000 and 100 000 genes
-
More than one million diverse kinds of bacteria in our mouths alone.
-
10 million different types of blood cells
-
The human body has 30 to 40 trillion cells.
-
Trillions of cells are organized in groups within groups that react with other groups.
-
Every second our body completes about 500 trillion faultless copies of hemoglobin, a protein that has 10 000 atoms in 574 amino acids.
-
The number of organisms in the digestive system is: 100 000 000 000 000.
This mind-boggling complexity started with one cell that can grow and multiply!
Mother nature keeps those atoms circulating between trees, oceans, microbes, viruses, and humans. The atoms could remain the same, but the way they are combined keeps changing. In the past, the same atoms could have made dinosaurs. Mother Nature decided to put them to a better use. According to the scientists, the atoms are immortal, but you may want to question the experience that scientists have of immortality.
We could look at the world like a sea of atoms and look at individuals as icebergs on that sea. What we call death is the melting of the icebergs as they are recycled. Death becomes one step in a continuous cycle. We are not a beginning or an end. We are a picture out of a film.
There is a flow of energy.
Some of the energy that we absorb from our food is used to keep us warm and moving. However, about 20% is sent to the brain. That makes us part of a cycle of Nature. The sun sends energy to the Earth. This energy is absorbed by the plants and 20% of it ends up in our brain. The energy from the sun goes through our material world and is returned to the brain.
We are carried by the flow
and pretend to be the captain of our ship!
The intuitive mind is a gift.
The rational mind is a tool.
Somewhere along the way,
We began worshipping the tool
and forgetting the gift.
Albert Einstein
8 - The human body
What happens inside our body is even more complex.
We can remove 75% of our liver and the whole liver will be recreated. This is more than regular maintenance. There is some creation involved.
This is not limited to humans. Starfish can regenerate their body.
Our body is not a tool that we can use and abuse and give to someone else when repairs become necessary. Our body is part of our life, and we cannot delegate our life to someone else. It is in human nature to split a big problem into several smaller problems in the hope that smaller problems will be easier to solve. The bigger the problem, the more pieces. For instance, we had to divide medicine into a multitude of specialties. The number of specialties gives you an idea of magnitude of the problem.
We have angiology, audiology, cardiology, dentistry, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, gynecology, hematology, hepatology, infectious disease, neurology, nephrology, oncology, ophthalmology, pathology, pediatrics, pharmacology, radiology, rheumatology, surgery, urology……
We also have dieticians, dentists, neurologists, nutritionists, holistic doctors, general practitioners, therapists, pharmacists, occupational therapists, naturopathic doctors, massage therapists, pediatricians, optometrists, chiropractors, obstetricians, psychiatrists, radiation therapists, nuclear medicine technologists, acupuncture, sport medicine, genetic counselors…. orthotic and prosthetics professionals…. speech pathologists…. radiation therapists….
We assume that our body can be broken into pieces. Each specialist will take one of the pieces, cure it, and let you put the pieces back together like you repair a machine. Unfortunately, our body was not made of separate pieces, like a machine. It came from one cell that kept feeding on its environment. Nature takes care of our body by replacing the dead cells with new cells. We think at the level of the organs. Nature works at the level of the cells.
The human brain is no match for the complexity of the human body. We better stay humble and limit ourselves to generalities. We need a minimum of 60 minerals 16 vitamins 12 amino acids and 2 Extra fat acids. One mineral missing for a lengthy period could open the door for an average of 10 illnesses. That would give us a potential of 600 illnesses. More than half of them is already known. More may be on the way. This is only an evaluation of the complexity of the problem.
Renovating our skeleton 4 times a year requires a lot of calcium. This calcium comes from our food, and our food comes from the soil. With a world population of 8 billion, our soil must supply 32 billion skeletons every year. Are we going to discover, someday, that our reserve of nutrients in our soil is limited like our reserves of oil? Should we “Use but don’t abuse” the soil of planet earth? This applies whether we are carnivores or vegetarians.
Let’s keep in mind that we have the use of a body much more complicated than anything we can imagine. It comes from another world. A lawyer would say that we only have the 'usufruct' of our body. We can use it, but we are responsible for its maintenance. To waste it is to waste our life. Our body knows how to use the food we eat. It knows how to transform our food into muscles, blood, heat, brain, nerves, hair or sweat. Our main responsibility is to provide food and shelter to a cell feeding on its environment.
Virgin birth:
Not only do we have many things that we don't understand about our body but there are many 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, bony fish and even songbirds. It is called parthenogenesis.
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 mankind to have more than one way to reproduce. Because we know many details, we assume that we also know all the basics. 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! Some of us are the children of parthenogenesis! What a pandemonium! Nobody wants to open this can of worms!
According to one of the printed bibles, man has five ways to reproduce. Yes - Five ways to reproduce and the act of flesh is only one of them. We don’t know how such idea could get in a bible, but it could be interesting to investigate. It is under John XIII, instead of the washing of the feet. If you ever find such chapter 13 in John’s bible, please let us know.
