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Amazing Facts

Joe Crews

Evolution and the Body, Pt. 1

About 26 trillion cells of the body are replaced every 28 days of human life.

The ability to manufacture almost a complete new body each month is 1 of the fantastic mysteries of physiology.

I'll be back in a moment with the amazing facts about the machine which repairs itself.

Hello, this is Joe Cruz and the Amazing Facts broadcast, facts which affect you.

Now today we want to look at 1 of the most fascinating evidences of creationism as opposed to evolution.

I suppose in no other area is so much heated conviction and dogmatism revealed.

The reason for this is because we are dealing with a doctrine that can't really be proved scientifically or by any of the other commonly applied laboratory methods.

After all, nobody was here when the earth was made and when life was first created.

Our belief in this matter must be based on faith.

In the case of the creationist, his faith is placed in the Bible, but with the evolutionist he puts his faith in philosophy.

Since there is no scientific evidence, certain theories may be propounded in seeking an explanation of the physical world around us, but they must not be presented as scientific truth.

Believe me, Friend, when I say this, it's a world of miracle and marvel.

The evolutionists and creationists all look on the same intricate pattern of life and organization, but their explanation of the world around them is entirely different.

From the microscopic to the immense, tremendous wonders are revealed in both form and function.

I don't think that any should stir us with more astonishment than the body itself.

How can the evolutionists explain the existence of such a delicate, complex machine as the human system?

There's only 1 answer, really, and that is a mighty, infinite intelligence is behind it.

The evolutionist says, No, nature did it.

Blind chance and time produced every organ and developed every function of the human body.

Now this position is 1 of the most amazing that we can imagine because only a fraction of the wisdom and mystery of our body is even understood by the greatest scientists of the day.

Now is chance and blind nature able to baffle the keenest intellects of the human race?

Could mere happenstance produce the highly complicated functions of both body and mind of a human being?

Every cell of the body is a miracle in itself.

By the way, this is the only machine that can repair itself.

Man can hardly duplicate even the simplest processes of our bodily functions.

Of course, some of them could be duplicated, But what would it require, friends, for a man to perform some of the simple functions of our body?

It has been estimated that it would require machinery and electronic equipment to fill a building as large as the Empire State Building.

And then it would take all the electrical energy of Niagara Falls to operate the equipment and all the water of Niagara Falls to keep it cool.

Yet substances are produced in the body by a few microscopic cells in just a fraction of a second that would require weeks to produce by giant machinery that would cover acres of floor space.

Now according to the evolutionists, man's origin goes all the way back to a little one-celled amoeba.

The fact is that until the invention of a microscope there was no scientific evidence of the existence of an amoeba.

There were no fossil remains, of course, because they are made out of pure protoplasm, which is just about like jelly.

I do believe that these one-cell forms of life were in existence from the very beginning of creation, as Genesis 1.20 reveals.

God said, Let the waters bring forth the moving creatures that hath life.

But I do say now, after that, that there was no scientific proof about the existence of those things long before man appeared.

Now this is what the evolutionist claims.

Yes, there are multitudes of those one-celled forms of life like the amoeba and the paramecium and the protozoa and so forth.

And by the way, the zoologists observing these cells through the microscope can see just as much difference between them as we can see between cows and horses.

Their methods of moving and of eating and reproducing are different, but friends, there's always 1 thing in common with these one-cell forms of life.

There's no reason to believe that an amoeba ever changed into any higher form of life.

Now here's a question the evolutionists can't answer.

How is it that the dinosaurs and some of the other great creatures have perished from the earth, literally disappeared from the stage of history, and yet the one-celled ancestor remains here by the billions, and not 1 of them is in the process of changing after countless generations of being observed.

Yeah, that's a real question for the evolutionists, friends.

Why hasn't the little amoeba and the paramecium and so forth gone through radical changes?

The cells are all different in these different families or species.

These are found in all cells, of course, and they determine the characteristics on the family lines.

There's a different number of chromosomes for all species.

And this makes cross-breeding impossible, by the way.

Cats and dogs can only reproduce after their kind.

They can't form any kind of unholy mixture between the different families of animals.

This is interesting because it actually fits in exactly what the Bible teaches.

In 1 Corinthians 15, 38 and 39, we read this, 1 Corinthians 15, 38 and 39, But God giveth it a body, as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is 1 kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds.

So in other words, friends, no matter how much alike they might look on the outside, they are all different.

It is a different kind of flesh, as the Bible puts it.

How often a man and a monkey may look alike as far as the external form is concerned.

The hand of a monkey and the hand of a man may be very similar, but does this prove that there's any kind of relationship between the 2 forms of life?

This is looking at the morphological evidence, which is only external evidence.

But we're more concerned with histology, which deals with the minute internal makeup of cells and so forth.

Now if there's going to be any scientific evidence, we insist on it being more than just mere external form and shape.

It's got to be based on some very careful scientific examination, a histological approach in other words.

Well it all reminds me of a little boy who came in 1 day and told his dad very excitedly, Hey dad, at last I know how horses are made.

And his father said, Well, how is that son?

And his father said, Oh no, how did you come to such a conclusion as that?

Really, you didn't see him making a horse.

He said, well, he wasn't making it, but he was just finishing 1 up.

He was just nailing his feet on as I came by.

Well, that's a little bit amusing, friends, but really if we just take the appearance of things, we might be led to many false conclusions like that.

Now what do we find on close microscopic examination of these cells?

Well not only are cells different within families, but even the cells of different organs within the same body differ considerably from each other.

Apparently there are certain elements and certain cells for certain organs and they will not function in or for any other part of the body or any other organ of the body.

Well in a living body, cells are constantly dying.

The longest that most cells can live is about 28 days and the shortest about 7 days.

So all 26 trillion cells of the body are replaced almost completely within every four-week period.

Now the brain cells we're excluding from this because they are not replaced after they die.

But now, friends, as far as the rest of the body is concerned, that's a tremendous rate of cell replacement, isn't it?

Well they make a complete circuit in the bloodstream and return to the parent organ where they died.

For example, the liver cells will enter the bloodstream and make a complete circuit and come right back to the liver again.

But friends, those liver cells will not be received by any other organ of the body.

Heart cells will come back only to the heart.

They would be expelled by the lungs or any other organ of the body.

Now when they return, what happens to them?

They are broken down into component elements and used again in the creation of new cells.

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