Hello, and welcome back
to The Creator Revealed.
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We are talking
about design in humans.
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And we have someone
joining us right now
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who is a doctor and
also teaches human anatomy.
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That's right, this
is Dr. Lucinda Hill.
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She teaches at
Southern Adventist University
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in Tennessee
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which happens to be the
school that my daughter went to,
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she's a graduate of it.
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So we are fans of
Southern Adventist University.
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Excellent education there.
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And they have an
excellent program there
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in origins,
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which Dr. Hill also teaches
that course there as well.
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So she is a multi-talented women
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and it's an honor
to have her with us.
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Hello, Dr. Hill, it's
great to have you here with us.
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Hey, how are you?
Good to be with you.
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Thank you. Glad to have you.
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We're doing fabulously.
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Now we've been talking
about design in the human body.
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And you're a physician,
and you teach human anatomy.
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So I wonder if you can tell
us, what would be in your mind,
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a good example.
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I already talked a little
bit earlier about the human eye
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and some of the interesting
things that are going on there.
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But you work with
the entire human body.
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What's something that
would jump out at you?
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Something that is
really amazing to me
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is the way our
bodies are so incredibly
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integrated with
our nervous system.
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I have here a
model of a human arm,
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hand.
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Think about the
incredible things
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that you can do with your hand.
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You reach out,
twist to open the door.
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If you're with your spouse,
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you hold hands
to communicate love.
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With your children, you
use your hands to pick them up.
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We write, we type on
computers, and we have muscles,
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a variety of muscles which
my students have to memorize.
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And then we have
to learn the nerves.
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But think about how in
order to make a movement,
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the muscles on one
side of the arm contract
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while the muscles on the
other side have to relax.
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And the brain
controls all of that.
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And so we have
centers in our brain
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that receive signals,
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and then give
the correct response
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to make these complex
movements of these muscles
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to do the incredible activities
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that we do with
our hands and arms.
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You know, what
I'm looking at that...
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Yeah, you know, when
you got all of these parts
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all together,
it's pretty amazing.
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But what I was looking at was,
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where the muscles are
and what they operate?
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'Cause there are
all of those tendons
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and things that go down
into the hand for muscles
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that are actually
up here in the forearm,
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and so you have a muscle
contracting in the forearm
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that's actually
moving your fingers,
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for example.
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It really looks like a machine,
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and in a way, you can say it is,
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but it's so much more than
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just sort of a
regular normal machine.
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And I'm also
thinking about other things
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that are there
like, all those tendons,
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they have to be lubricated.
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So you got nerves to tell them
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which muscles to contract
and which ones to relax,
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tendons that are moving fingers,
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and stuff way out here,
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and then you got a
system of lubrication.
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But you're a
doctor, you're a physician.
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And what I'm wondering about is,
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what happens when one
of these things is damaged?
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In fact, I can tell you that
from harsh personal experience,
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I know what happens
when a hand, to some degree,
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when a hand gets damaged.
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Wow.
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You know,
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there are lot of
things going on there
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that I simply hadn't
thought about very much
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before myself.
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So what happens when
you're dealing with a patient
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who is damaged
something like that?
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Well, that's an excellent point.
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So many times, somebody will
come into the emergency room,
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and I practiced emergency
medicine for many years,
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and they have a laceration.
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If it's just a
simple cut on the skin,
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even then think
of the complexity
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of how do you heal that wound,
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how do you prevent an
infection from setting in.
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And then if it's in the
hand, like what happened to you,
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let's look at our model again.
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And at here in our fingers,
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we have the insertion
points of these tendons.
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If you cut the tendon...
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So that would be the
place where the tendon attaches,
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that's what you're
calling an insertion point,
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right?
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Yes, that's correct.
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And so to flex your finger,
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you're going to
contract the muscle,
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and then that's going
to be attached to the bones
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of your finger
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that will then pull
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and bend the finger at the
joints, like if the joints,
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what happens if we don't
have joints in the fingers,
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if those joints are stiff?
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But back to the
lacerated tendon,
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if somebody lacerates a tendon,
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they're going to have
a life-changing injury
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unless that
tendon is sewn back up,
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and unless we
prevent a major infection
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which can also do
damage to the tendon.
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And yet our body
has an immune system,
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it has mechanisms of
healing in various positions.
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We work with those
designed mechanisms
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to sew things back up,
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so that they're
aligned correctly,
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so that the healing
process occurs normally.
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It's absolutely incredible.
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Actually, I can
demonstrate that.
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Can you see how I can't
straighten this little finger?
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I can't straighten it up
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because the
tendon here is broken.
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So I can just get it
that far, and that's it.
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I can contract it,
but I can't pull it back.
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Even though it
would readily go back,
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it'll readily go back.
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But I simply have
no control over it
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because the tendon is damaged,
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and I can't do it, yeah.
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You know, the most
amazing thing to me is that,
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all of this works
together without us
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even thinking of it
on a cognizant level.
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It just works.
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You know, what I
was thinking about
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when you talk about
just a simple laceration,
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your body has to tell cells
to start growing there, right?
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Well, how do those
cells know to start growing
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and when to stop growing?
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Why doesn't it just turn
into cancer or something it is,
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grow into this horrible
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great big growth?
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Excellent point, that
is an excellent point.
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We have so many
different mechanisms
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that we don't even think of.
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And as you said,
it's just automatic.
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If those processes
don't work correctly,
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we're in a world of hurt.
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And yet it's incredible
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how well they
work most of the time.
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What amazes me
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as much as anything
about the human body
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is the way in which
it can absorb insults,
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if you will,
damage of various cuts.
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Redundancy.
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The redundancy
is built in there.
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I guess that it's common
to compare biological things
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with machines of some kind.
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So if you said, "Well,
a body is something like,
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let's say, a complex
machine like an airplane."
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In airplanes, they
have redundant system,
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so there can be some
damage to an aeroplane,
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and it can keep
flying, but with a human...
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And by the way,
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that's
indicative of great design
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when you have
something like that.
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And let me give
you an example of that.
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I've got a wonderful example.
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My grandfather was
having some balance issues.
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I took him to a
balance center to be tested.
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And once they
put the halter on him
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and went through the test,
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when they had
him close his eyes,
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he was down.
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So what they told me was,
he was relying completely...
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Both of his inner ear...
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He had inner ear problems.
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No balance center in either ear,
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he was relying totally
on his vision for balance.
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And to me, that's amazing.
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Yeah, I mean, that's incredible.
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Just that kind of redundancy.
All this sort of redundancy.
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And yet he could
stand up and walk,
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still just because he had sight,
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even though the rest of
the system wasn't working,
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to me,
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what astonishes me is
that you can cut entire organs
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out of a human being's body,
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and they don't die immediately.
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I know that, you know,
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we think about
things like the appendix.
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But others, I mean...
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Gall bladder, uterus.
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Yeah, yeah. I
mean, there's a lot.
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We can live without
one of our kidneys, spleen.
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Yes.
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It's amazing.
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And even when we
have neurological damage
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in the brain,
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we're learning so much about
the plasticity in the brain
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where one part is
able to take over function
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for a damaged area,
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and still allow, even though,
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there are certainly bad effects
from the original injury,
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yet that's mitigated
by these redundancies
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and by the ability to heal.
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It's incredible.
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It really is amazing
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as we think
about the human body.
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The more we know about it,
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really the more
amazing it becomes.
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And the more amazing
we understand it to be,
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the more designed it
looks, and the more glory.
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Really is a tribute
all to the designer,
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who of course, the
Bible reveals to us,
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introduces to us
as God, God Himself.
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It's quite incredible. Yeah.
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Well, thank you so much
for joining us, Dr. Hill.
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It's been a pleasure.
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Thank you for your insights.
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It's been a
pleasure to be with you.
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Thank you. Bye-bye.
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Good bye.
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Well, you know,
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I feel that with
this particular subject,
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we've been talking about
it for almost half an hour.
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And we haven't even begun
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to scratch the surface.
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Where do you...
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The human body,
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it's not just
that it's this machine,
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it's also a work of art,
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it's a
beautiful, beautiful thing.
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With the most amazing computer
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that has ever been
created right up here.
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Yes.
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And the ability
of that computer,
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that brain to
control all of these parts
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ultimately though
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the ability to praise
the Creator who made us.
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Amen and amen.
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This has been
such a special program.
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Thank you so much.
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And you know, it is
so true as David said,
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"Lord, You knit me
together in the womb,
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I am fearfully
and wonderfully made."
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And I just want
to take this moment
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to encourage you to praise God.
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There are so many things.
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Sometimes we get ill,
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and we think, "Poor pitiful me."
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But praise God for
the ability to regenerate,
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praise God for the
way He has created you,
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and praise Him for
everything that you can do.
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Thank you.
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