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Your Amazing, Wonderful Brain
Used by permission, Alpha Omega Institute
In order for man to make things such as watches, cars, cameras,
or computers he must use intelligence. Would anyone believe that
the carved presidents’ heads on Mt. Rushmore happened by chance
and accident? Did those faces appear on the mountain by wind, or
rain plucking off one sand grain at a time over millions of
years? No way! When we look at Mt. Rushmore we know that someone
was using intelligence to design and carve those presidents’
heads into solid rock. They were using their brain. Yet a lot of
people would believe that our incredibly complex brain was not
designed by an intelligent God but happened instead all by
chance and accident (evolution).
Many magazines (National Geographic, Scientific American, Time,
to name a few) have articles which admit that the human brain is
the most complex (not simple) structure in the known universe.
How did the brain get so complex? They believe that the brain is
the result of millions of years of evolution. Evolution believes
that the complicated design of the brain happened without a designer;
that it all happened by chance and accident, not by God.
Let’s look at the amazing, wonderful design of the brain. Could it have happened by chance and accident?
The
human brain is a wonderful computer system
(more complicated than any computer ever
built by man), which acts as the control
center for the body. Your brain is continually receiving, computing
and sending billions of pieces of
‘information throughout your body. That
information controls every movement and activity that you do. In your
body, nerves act as wires that carry
information to and from your brain by what
is called the central nervous system.
Computers also use wires and electronic
parts to carry and store Information, yet
in just one human brain there is probably more wiring or
electrical circuitry than in all the
computers of the world put together.
The average brain is a soft, wrinkled, folded, jelly-like mass
weighing about 2 to 3 pounds. It is protected by a special container
of bone called the skull. The brain is made up of 30 billion
brain cells called neurons, held together by ten times as many (300
billion) brain cells called glial. You have more brain cells in your
brain alone, than the number of all the people on earth! Neurons
connect to other neurons (some as many as 60,000 times). This
allows electrical signals to travel through the brain very fast.
Brain cells (unlike other cells) are never replaced. The brain does not
get tired like muscles do.
Although many parts of the brain have certain functions, it can
be broken down into three major sections which include all these parts.
The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain and is responsible for
our unique intelligence and intellectual skills. The cerebrum
receives and understands all the messages of your senses. Here is
where our memory is stored, where we think, make decisions, and
give commands to the rest of the body. The cerebellum directs
voluntary actions.
When you turn your head or lift your arm, it is the work of the
cerebellum cells that coordinates the commands of the cerebrum,
allowing you to do that. The medulla oblongata is found at the
lower part of the brain (near the top of brain stem). It controls
your involuntary actions (breathing, heart, etc.). This part of
your brain is handling millions of messages and instructions all
the time even though you are not aware of it.
Some scientist believe that everything we experience in life is
saved (possibly in more than one place) somewhere in the brain. Now and
then it might become harder to think and to remember because of
injury or sickness, but no matter how old you get, you can
continue to learn. As you use your mind, the more you learn, the easier
it is to think and learn. Mental powers grow with use. Yet
scientists tell us we do not use all of the brain power that we
have--that we only use 10% of our brain in our lifetime. If
evolution was true, we should be using all of our brain! Why else
would it have grown to the size it is today if only 10% is being
used? Our Bible tells us that when Adam was created, God saw that
is was good. Adam was able to give names to all the animals and
he could talk, so he had a language. I believe that Adam was
created perfect, so he used 100% of his brain. But because of
sin, harmful mutations entered the world, and our brains have
degenerated over time.
Even though we know much about the brain today, it is still a big
mystery. We still do not really know how it can do what it does.
It is simply unbelievable that the complex design of the brain
could have evolved. Only an intelligent designer could have
created the amazing brain. And that designer is God!
