Monday, November 13, 2006

Just consider.....


The average human heart pumps more than 1,000 gallons a day, more than 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to fill 13 super tankers. It never sleeps, beating 25 billion times in a lifetime.

The lungs contain 1,ooo miles of capillaries. The process of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide is so complicated that it is more difficult to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide than for a man shot out of a cannon to carve the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin as he passes by.

DNA contains about 2,ooo genes per chromosome-18 meters of DNA are folded into each cell nucleus. A nucleus is six microns long. This is like putting 30 miles of fishing line into a cherry pit. And it isn't simply suffed in. It is folded in. If folded one way, the cell becomes a skin cell. If another way, a liver cell, and so forth. To write out the information in one cell would take 300 volumes, each volume 500 pages thick. The human body contains enough DNA that if it were stretched out, it would circle the sun 260 times.

The body uses energy efficiently. If an average adult rides a bike for one hour at ten miles per
hour it uses the amount of energy contained in three ounces of carbohydrate. If a car were this efficient with gasoline, it would get 900 millions to the gallon.

Your body is remarkable. Have you thanked God for it?

8 comments:

Lynn said...

Wow! That is amazing!

Jane said...

And some folks think life just 'happened'.....amazing. We are truly 'fearfully and wonderfully made'.
Have a wonderful day my friend.

Ramblins of a middle-aged goddess said...

Boy when you look at it THAT WAY!! Man we are incredible!! EVEN ME!! Thanks for researching today!! I am off to shop with Beck!! Have a great day...Sandy

Anonymous said...

I knew the human body was amazing, but I never knew the stats.

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Melli said...

It IS amazing - isn't it? I hope I've thanked Him enough for it! And now I'm off to Curves to see if I can get it back on track! Hope you've had a wonderful day dear!

Meira{FB} said...

Wow! It's been a long time since nursing school!

Wonderful post!

Penrick said...

Yes, I have thanked God. Now, I pray for him to make it so it burns calories without me.

srp said...

How can anyone say we evolved from a one celled organism and that there is no creation and no God? The complexity of a single celled organism is more than simple chance could ever come up with. God is so good to man with his gifts of life, love and Christ. How foolish we are to try and strip him out of our everyday lives.

 
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