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Ecclesiastes 11:5
New American Standard
Bible (NASB)
5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind
and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant
woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.
We know that when a human fetus forms, it starts out as one
cell. This cell divides into two identical cells. In turn each of these cells
divide into identical cells. As this division occurs over and over again,
eventually the cells differentiate and form the various parts of our bodies.
Some of the cells become the hard bones that give us structure and make our
blood. Some form our organs that make us viable and human.
We know that the key to this variation in cell structure is
a giant molecule that is in the very nucleus of every cell. This DNA molecule
is identical in every cell. It is composed of only four building blocks, called
nucleotides. There are over three billion nucleotides in each DNA molecule.
Humans have performed enough experiments to know the
position of a set of nucleotides in the DNA molecule determines the entire
structure of the human. It tells each cell what its function is. Cellular
division continues throughout the life of the person. Built into this division
is an instruction that determines when a cell dies.
What is amazing is how the cell interprets the appropriate
tiny substring of the DNA to determine which one of the seemingly infinite
possible forms it must assume. This results in a recognizably different human
being from all others. But they are all equally human beings.
When the cell loses the instruction that determines when it
dies, it then goes on living and dividing, forming too many of the same cell.
We call this aberration cancer, and it normally kills the person who gets it. So death, cell death, is essential for human life. How
thankful we can be that God intended us for life, not death.
Thank You, Lord, for letting us begin to understand the building
code You have used to make us. We see in this structure the extreme
complexity yet basic simplicity of Your creation.
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