Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: How does the human body repair itself? Learn about it next on today's Creation Moment. And now, here's our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Let's take a moment today to look at your body's incredible system for repairing itself. Suppose you accidentally cut your finger. Almost instantly, a series of precisely ordered steps begins to repair your finger. First, the bleeding must be stopped. And while the scab is forming over the surface of the wound, the blood below is making another kind of clot out of blood platelets and protein. With the bleeding stopped, your body increases the flow of blood enriched with white blood cells. These not only search out and kill germs, but they clean the wound of damaged cellular tissue.

Skin cells begin to increase the rate at which they make new cells in order to bridge the cut with new skin. Underneath, cells called fibroblasts fill the wound to strengthen the tender new tissue and contract to pull the wound closed. Now, blood vessels and nerves complete their repairs as the fibroblasts position themselves along the lines of stress to prevent future damage. Well, the intelligence in the order in which the steps to healing take place, as well as the advanced biochemistry involved in making these steps happen, makes the healing of a cut finger no less of a miracle than Jesus's healing of the high priest's servant's ear.

Healing is clearly his doing, whether it happens slowly or instantly.

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