| Published 2011 |
Once again, secular scientists have become amazed at what they have discovered about God’s created
world and the creatures in it.
This time it’s researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine who have been spending the past
few years trying to learn more about the human brain. As reported on the CNET website, the scientists
have engineered a new imaging model called array tomography which stitches together image slices of
the brain into a three-dimensional image that can be rotated, penetrated and navigated.
With their new tool they are able to see things in the brain nobody has seen before. A typical, healthy
brain houses 200 billion nerve cells connected to one another by hundreds of trillions of synapses,
which are junctions between cells over which nerve impulses pass.
What they learned about these synapses amazed them. Team leader Stephen Smith, a professor of
molecular and cellular physiology, said the brain’s complexity is beyond anything they could have
imaged, almost to the point of being beyond belief.
One synapse, they found, is like a microprocessor with both memory-storage and information-processing
elements. One synapse by itself may contain around 1,000 molecular-scale on/off switches. A single
human brain has more of these switches than all the computers and Internet connections in the world
added together.
So, the question is why are there so many people, including so many scientists, who seemingly are not
using all this brain power? Shouldn’t all this obvious evidence of complexity and design be leading
them to search out the Designer, the identity of Whom can be found in their nearest Bible?
God will not hold guiltless those who look at His wonderful world and yet deny Him. “The wrath of God
is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the
truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has
made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power
and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men
are without excuse” (Romans 1:18-20)
May these people stop resisting the Holy Spirit so that their hearts might receive the Gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ and in faith see the God Who gave us this amazing world, and the promise of salvation
too. LSI
—Warren Krug, editor
world and the creatures in it.
This time it’s researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine who have been spending the past
few years trying to learn more about the human brain. As reported on the CNET website, the scientists
have engineered a new imaging model called array tomography which stitches together image slices of
the brain into a three-dimensional image that can be rotated, penetrated and navigated.
With their new tool they are able to see things in the brain nobody has seen before. A typical, healthy
brain houses 200 billion nerve cells connected to one another by hundreds of trillions of synapses,
which are junctions between cells over which nerve impulses pass.
What they learned about these synapses amazed them. Team leader Stephen Smith, a professor of
molecular and cellular physiology, said the brain’s complexity is beyond anything they could have
imaged, almost to the point of being beyond belief.
One synapse, they found, is like a microprocessor with both memory-storage and information-processing
elements. One synapse by itself may contain around 1,000 molecular-scale on/off switches. A single
human brain has more of these switches than all the computers and Internet connections in the world
added together.
So, the question is why are there so many people, including so many scientists, who seemingly are not
using all this brain power? Shouldn’t all this obvious evidence of complexity and design be leading
them to search out the Designer, the identity of Whom can be found in their nearest Bible?
God will not hold guiltless those who look at His wonderful world and yet deny Him. “The wrath of God
is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the
truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has
made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power
and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men
are without excuse” (Romans 1:18-20)
May these people stop resisting the Holy Spirit so that their hearts might receive the Gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ and in faith see the God Who gave us this amazing world, and the promise of salvation
too. LSI
—Warren Krug, editor
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