fascinating facts

Yesterday I was reading an article about artificial placenta. For premature babies, or babies with deseases that can only be treated during fetus form, an artificial placenta seems to be the right way to go.

Although short-term articial placenta seems quite feasible now, how to achieve long-term one remains a question. Even though scientists managed to keep the goat fetus alive for about 500 hours, it died shortly after being taken out of the artificial placenta because its lung couldn't function normally.

Isn't it amazing, how our body is designed? We were able to stay in the womb for that many days without using the lung. Then we were able to breathe the dry air after the birth. Everything works out beautifully like a symphony.

Brian once talked about the optimization of red blood cell in his post, which is about the balance of the oxygen our body needs and the work load of our heart. Yet there is much more than that. Think about the speed of our blood flow. Do you know how easily it is to have blood clot? It will happen when your blood flow is too fast, or too slow.

What I am saying is that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. God designs us in every single detail, just as he directed Moses to build his temple. And now each one of us is the temple. He dwells in us. We are made to communicate his message and to glorify him.