When you reflect on the remarkable abilities of various animals, do you sometimes feel a stab of envy? Perharps you wish that you could fly like an albatross, swim like a dolphin, see like an eagle, or run like a cheetah.
Yes, animals have some incredible abilities; but so do humans. We are much more than a machine!
We have creativity, curiousity, imagination and ingenuity – qualities that moves us to design machines to do all the things that we set our minds to do.
At the Olympics, well trained humans can perforn amazing feats with a level of agility, artistry, creativity and grace that leave audiences spellbound.
Do you appreciate the special gifts that you have as a human? You may be just all you are, but you have many gifts for which to be thankful.
The Psalmist in chapter 139:14 says ‘I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made...’
Why not think about that statement from the scriptures and consider this piece dedicated to the wonders of the human body as you read on.
The human body is fantastically adaptable and no animal has the sheer range of abilities that we have.
The reason for this is our upright stance which expands our area of vision and also free our arms and hands for many number of tasks. Our highly sophisticated sensory system which include the hands, ears, eyes and the brain puts us many miles ahead of other creatures and that was why Amighty God put all of them and everything under us (humans) - Gen 1:26.
Our hands are beautiful instruments of amazing precision, the hands are highly sensitive to the extent that a brief touch reveal make or type of substance (smooth or rough, wet or dry, hot or cold etc). Our hands are used for grasping, manipulation, knowlwedge, conveyance and many other things. It is made up of the wrist joint, the carpal bones, metacarpal bones, and phalanges.
The human hands have a total of more than fifty bones and it is about a quarter of all the bones in the body. The bipedal locomotion in man as mentioned above frees the hands for a largely manipulative function. The palms and undersides of the fingers are marked by creases and covered by ridges called fingerprints or palm prints, which function to improve affectionate sensitivity and grip. Most of all, no two individuals are alike - the patterns on our thumbs, fingers and palms are also used for identification.
Our ears are positioned right and enable our hearing to determine loudness, pitch, tone, direction and distance of a sound source. The function of the outer ear is to collect sound waves and guide them to the tympanic membrane. The middle ear is a narrow, air-filled cavity in the temporal bone. It is spanned by a chain of three tiny bones—the malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes (stirrup), collectively called the auditory ossicles. This ossicular chain conducts sound from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. If an engineer were to design a hearing system that came close to the one our Creator gave us, he would have received a Nobel prize and many accolades.
Still we don’t often hear humans give credit and praise to God for His awesome works like the Psalmist.
Our eyes are so amazing and well positioned that scientists estimate that people who can see well gain approximately 80% of their information about the world through their eyes. Our eyes can track moving objects and images smoothly, can see in varying degrees of light. The eye is protected from mechanical injury by being enclosed in a socket, or orbit, which is made up of portions of several of the bones of the skull to form a four-sided pyramid the apex of which points back into the head. Thus, the floor of the orbit is made up of parts of the maxilla, zygomatic, and palatine bones, while the roof is made up of the orbital plate of the frontal bone and, behind this, by the lesser wing of the sphenoid. The eyeball and its functional muscles are surrounded by a layer of orbital fat that acts much like a cushion, permitting a smooth rotation of the eyeball about a virtually fixed point, the centre of rotation. The protrusion of the eyeballs—proptosis—in exophthalmic goitre is caused by the collection of fluid in the orbital fatty tissue.
The human brain is astonishingly efficient, it codes the strings of signal pouring in through the nerves from the sense organs and it links these signals with details stored in its memory by learning these associations without missing a detail. It controls balance and coordination by producing smooth, coordinated movements of muscle groups.
The thalamus of the brain is the main relay centre between the medulla and the cerebrum; the hypothalamus is an important control centre for sex drive, pleasure, pain, hunger, thirst, blood pressure, body temperature, and other visceral functions.
Is n’t our God the Creator and King awesome? Give him praise always for His wonderful works.
These and other unmentioned qualities of the human body was what prompted an ancient man called Job to declare to God that - ‘ Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...’ (Job 10:8)
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