This is a beautiful entry into the mysteries of the brain. These intricacies should take us to two places – one, to the gift of study and cross-historical, cumulative learning, and two, to the glories of design. Thanks to Emily Loveday, one of my students, for this.
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Hi Dan
I’m continually amazed when I watch these clips as I realize it must have taken centuries for humans with high IQ’s to understand how our brains work to this level, but to the Creator of the universe, it was all in a days work.
One day we’ll have the opportunity to have all our questions on creation answered. However, I suspect we won’t feel the need to ask, as everything will simply make sense! In the meantime, we worship our God and proclaim His greatness.
‘Receive our adoration, how wonderful You are’ (Brenton Brown – ‘Adoration’)
Blessings
Gary
Hi Dan,
How amazing God is!
He creates the human brain and creates the intelligence of man to undertsand it.
I’m not sure which is greater, the creation of the human brain or the creation of human intelligence that is able to understand how it works. I think this gives another insight into how vast and complex God is.
The knowledge of man is a miracle of creation and is quite awsome, yet we will never understand the depth and breadth of Gods knowledge.
The gap between my understanding of God and the full extent of who God actually is is filled with awe.
After watching the clip I have another reason to stand in awe of God.
Andrew
I studied Human Biology at university and spent hours facinated by how our body functions. Whether its moving, growing or healing it is unthinkable that a couple of atoms rubbed together and created it (ok, maybe the Big Bang theory is slightly more complicated than that!).
What stuck me was how the brain healed itself after a stroke. How other areas of the brain can adapt to “make up” for the damaged section. Through angiogenesis new blood vessels begin to form and neurons start to grow to regenerate the damaged area. The process of diffusion and how a semi permeable membrane selects the correct molecules to pass. How are appetites, moods and emotions are controlled by tiny proteins called hormones as they bind to intricately detailed receptors. Our digestive system and how it selects exactly what we need, when we need it…
I could go on forever but surely this is the work of a creator?!
Wow. Mind-blowing (excuse the pun).
It justs puts the creative side of God in perspective. He creates 30,000 of these in the size of a pin-head – so small and yet so powerful. The fact taht he uses so many different parts to make up the brain is just amazing. Even with all our gained knowledge such as this, we can’t just create the idea of nuerons and i suspect there are still plenty of aspects of the brain that are yet to be fathomed.
I sometimes feel the more we learn about the way the brain works, the more complex the ‘brain’ of God becomes. After all if he can create all this in such a small thing how much more complex must he be?
I liked the part about our brain functioning “like a great orchestra”. God mixes music and art and science so masterfully! In such physiological and scientific things it is amazing how visually beautiful God made things that we can’t even see without the help of a microscope. I suppose that when he created the human body with so much detail he knew that someday we would be able to see its complexity and he wanted to inspire wonder in us when we did.
I wrote about the physiology of vision this week on my blog and it really goes with this but I don’t know how to get it here (my brain is not highly developed enough) I really hope some of my essentialsblue friends will go and read my blog because it goes with this!!
PS it also goes along with the question of what it means to be human…
I personally loved the background music. My neurons were highly entertained (or maybe just distracted) by the video’s dramatic soundtrack.
It really is incredible, though. How any scientist discovering these kinds of things could be an atheist is beyond me! However, to watch this felt like watching some child’s theory on how it works, almost like make-believe, so far-fetched! It shows what an insanely imaginative God we have!
Wow! Who would have ‘thunk’? Pretty amazing! No way it could happen by accident! Our Creator, not only gave us a mind out of this world, but He made it so that we can be creative like him as well to advance and grow in technology and science. This same mind is also designed to seek Him out, not just for us to be robots of nature or creation. It’s pretty incredible!
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