Everyday our bodies change, our skin renews, our heart and blood
perform amazing feats - what are the most amazing things about us as
human beings, in the sense of everything that happens within us to
keep us alive in each and every moment?

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Here are some amazing notes about the human being. I will only cite a
few snippets from my sources but if you want to check out some more
details, you can just go directly to the link.


- ?A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.?
- ?A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.?
- ?Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206
in our bodies.?
- ?Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.?

?20 Little Known Facts About The Human Body?
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/science/trivia/human/ 


- ?Maintaining body functions accounts for 60-75% of your daily
caloric expenditure?
- ?Skipping breakfast reduces the number of calories burned by 500-700 per day.?

?Amazing Weightloss Facts?
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art6351.asp 


- ?Except for your brain cells, 50,000,000 of the cells in your body
will have died and been replaced with others, all while you have been
reading this sentence.?
- ?The liver is often called the body's chemical factory. Scientists
have counted over 500 liver functions.?
- ?Messages travel along the nerves as electrical impulses. They
travel at speeds up to 248 mile per hour.?

?Dr. Walker's Amazing Body Facts?
http://www.openinghumanpotential.com/facts.html 


- ?The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.? 
- ?The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000
gallons in a lifetime.?
- ?There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.?
- ?In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times?

?Amazing Facts About our Body?
http://www.meaningoflife.i12.com/body.htm 


- ?About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and
the same number are born each second.?
- ?Red blood cells make approximately 250,000 round trips of the body
before returning to the bone marrow, where they were born, to die.?

?The Circulatory System?
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/amcgann/body/circulatory_facts.html 


- ?Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters
of blood circulates through the body three times every minute.?
- ?The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average
lifetime--that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.?

?Amazing Heart Facts?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/facts.html 


- ?There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being
than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.?
- ?One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.?
- ?If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time
and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!?

?Did you know? Amazing facts about the human body?
http://www.northcoast.com/~discover/kids_invent_af3.html 


- ?The Average human being consumes about 500kg of food per year.?
- ?An adults stomach can hold approximately 1.5 liters of material.?
- ?In the mouth, food is either cooled or warmed to a more suitable temperature.?

?Amazing Facts?
http://www.rose.edu/faculty/gjackson/a-f-dig.htm 


- ?The adult human brain is about 2% of the total body weight.?
- ?Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood
supply to the brain.?
- ?There are about 13,500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.?

?Brain Facts that make you go, ?Hmmmmm??
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ffacts.html 


- ?When you are born, your brain weighs about a pound. But by age 6,
it weighs three pounds. What happens? Learning to stand, talk, and
walk creates a web of connections in your head?two pounds worth!?
- ?Your brain is full of nerve cells, but it has no pain receptors.
Doctors can operate on your brain while you're awake?and you won't
feel a thing!?

?Amazing Facts?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/headsup/brain/index.asp?article=brain_facts


- ?From the moment of conception, 46 chromosomes with 30,000 genes
combined to determine all your physical characteristics: sex; facial
features; body type; colour of hair; eyes and skin?
- ?The baby lives inside a transparent membrane called the amnion sac.
The sac is filled with a salty solution which bathes the body's
cells.?
- ?The baby is surrounded by loud noise such as his mother's heart
beat or loud music. He responds to sounds in frequencies so high or
low that they cannot be heard by the human adult ear??

?The amazing facts?
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:77oOxZ8fwZsJ:www.justthefacts.org/amazing/amazing.doc+amazing+facts+human+body&hl=en


- ?We discard about 10 billion skin flakes every day. Over a year this
mounts up to nearly two kilograms.?
- ?The life span of a taste bud is ten days but the cells are
constantly being renewed, roughly one every ten hours.?

?Amazing Facts?
http://www.scienceyear.com/wired/index.html?page=/wired/facts/super.html


- ?The ?natural alarm clock? which enables some people to wake up more
or less when they want to is caused by a burst of the stress hormone
adrenocorticotropin. Researchers say this reflects an unconscious
anticipation of the stress of waking up.?
- ?Teenagers need as much sleep as small children (about 10 hrs) while
those over 65 need the least of all (about six hours). For the average
adult aged 25-55, eight hours is considered optimal?

?40 FACTS ABOUT SLEEP YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW...?
http://abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm 


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Just goes to show what a good engineer GOD is. Of course it takes
faith to fully believe we were created. What are the odds of coming
together accidentally, as claimed by evolutionists, when all our bits
are so complicated and work together so well, as shown by Easterangel.
From Psalm 139 verses 13 to 16.."For you yourself pproduced my
kidneys, You kept me screened off in the belly of my mother.
I shall laud you because in a fear inspiring way I am wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful, as my soul is very well aware.
My bones are not hidden from you, When I was made in secret.
When I was woven in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts
were down in writing.
As regards the days when they were formed, and there was not yet one among them

Verse 17 goes on to express how precious are God`s thoughts and how
many there are of them. Verse 18 says..Were I try to count them, they
are more than even the grains of sand. I have awaked, and yet I am
still with you.

The many thoughts of the VERY BEST "builder" we will ever know. 
Psalms was written by David and others 460 years before Jesus. How did
they know about embryos etc. UNLESS, as the Bible says, they were
writing under inspiration.

RE: What are the odds of coming together accidentally, as claimed by
evolutionists? I can answer that one!

The odds of us "coming together?as claimed by evolutionists? is about
as preposterous as the notion that mankind evolved out of the
primordial ooze for billions of years, learning to use tools,
mathematics, logic and perfecting scientific method, yet still wound
up ignorant enough to believe that there?s an invisible man who lives
up in the sky, and who created us so that we could worship him, and if
we didn?t, he would torture his creations or destroy them, because he
loves his creation so much.

I?d say the odds in both cases are about the same, highly unlikely,
but none-the-less, probably true.

Our cells regenerate so that before we die we discover our 'gift' to
others.  Or we can always just live, go to school, get a job marry,
have kids, buy a house, endure the bads, enjoy the goods, and then
die.  How's that for meaning to our body regenerating?  Religions are
pass down by 'words' and 'communications'.  There might a god(s) or
not.  The universe is just too huge for us 'unlock'.  Either you
believe in god or evolution ... life is limited.