Transcript The Miracle of the Human Body Frank Sherwin, MA War of the Worldviews Creation science VS Evolutionism.

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.
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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
Sub-
micros
copic
pumps
• 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: God’s 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 speaker’s)
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 humankind’s 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 / [email protected]
“I am skeptical of arguments, like
those of the molecular biologists,
based on long strings of theoretical
assumptions.”
Trefil, James. 1996. 101 Things You Don’t 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.