Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Our "100,000" Bodies -- Amazing To Think About!

I recently read that in today's world the average person will walk about 100,000 miles in his or her lifetime. I'm 54 years old (young!) and I can tell you for certain that I've already surpassed that amount. Just in my running career I've logged over 50,000 miles. As I began to think about the number -- 100,000 -- I realized that the number is also applicable to other parts of the human body:
  • The average human head has 100,000 hair follicles.
  • Your heart beats an average of 100,000 times a day
  • There are up to 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.
  • The muscles that control your eyes contract about 100,000 times a day
  • A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons.
  • In an average lifetime, a human body processes about 100,000 pounds of food.
A few years ago, Forbes magazine aimed to answer the question: "What will we look like 100,000 years from now, assuming we still exist that far in the future?" An organismic and evolutionary biologist attempted to answer the question and simply stated, "Even if we ignore new technologies, moving off the earth, and various selection pressures, evolution still holds surprises just by chance mutation." Personally, I believe that whether it's 100,000 years... or less... or more... that God will continue to allow for the existence of men and women on earth in His grand plan, for His divine purposes, and within His timing for such existence -- and our appearance will be just as His plan calls for. Nope, that's not an 'evolution' perspective, but a spiritual one.

From Him, Through Him, For Him (Romans 11:36),

Paul J. Staso
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