The miracle of life
Me and Ben were talking, and I brought up the cell paradox. You've probably never heard of it, because I came up with the paradox myself as far as I know. The paradox, simply stated, is this: science has shown us that a cell can replicate/divide 50 times before dying. Now since we all came from a single cell, this presented a problem to me. Surely that original cell has divided fifty times by now, right? So how is it, I asked Ben, that we are able to live for so long. Ben had his laptop computer and he pulled out the calculator program. "Okay, maybe we simply have enough cells in our body total to make up for this," was his reasoning, and I had considered that before. After all, our cells reproduce exponentially, and that can make up for a lot. After I told Ben we had 4 trillion cells in our body he started to do the math. Together, we determined that the human body creates/loses 444,000 cells per second. Now our math may be a little off, I'm willing to admit; neither of us are biologists. But 444,000 is a pretty impressive number, and as far as I'm concerned my paradox is non-existent.
"You know," said Ben, "it kinda makes you realize just what a miracle the human body is, and it makes the presence of God all that more apparent."
Amen, brother. Amen.
"You know," said Ben, "it kinda makes you realize just what a miracle the human body is, and it makes the presence of God all that more apparent."
Amen, brother. Amen.
