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Monday, July 15th, 1991, M.A.C. Meeting
FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE - BONES: A STUDY IN DESIGN
by Dr. David N. Menton
I have often been asked if I teach creation in my medical school
courses.
In a sense, every instructor in the medical school teaches
creation, whether or not they realize it. Perhaps more than anyone,
medical students have an opportunity to see how wondrously designed the
human body is.
For this reason, I have chosen to give a lecture to MAC on the
subject of bone, which is based on the type of lectures I give to
medical students.
Why bones you ask? Well, the elementary structure and
function of bones are perhaps more quickly understood by the layman
than many other organs we might talk about because we are all familiar
with them.
Also, bones, or casts of bones, in the fossil record are
really the only tangible historical evidence for the speculations of
evolutionism. Convinced that "form follows function" in importance, we
will first consider the functional importance of bones for our very
survival. We will learn that on a scale of importance, the mechanical
function of bones are not really their most important function for life.
Then we will examine several human bones from the smallest to the
largest. Do you know what the smallest one is? Evolutionist claim that
one of these small bones of our body evolved from the reptilian jaw!
Since human skulls and teeth are the single most important fossil
specimens for speculating on the origin of humans from apes, we will
look at these as well. Special attention will be given to how bones
grow and yet maintain their shape proportional and appropriate for their
function.
We will look at the marvelous structure of bone joints and
see how the moveable ones are lubricated. Photos will be shown of
specimens of bone as seen in the light microscope, and the scanning
electron microscope. At high magnification we will see the very cells
that lay down new deposits of bone and still other cells that literally
sculpt or carve the bone of our bodies. These two remarkable classes of
cells working together in a precisely coordinated way produce the change
in shape that occurs during growth and repair of bone. An almost
immeasurable imbalance of the activities of these two kinds of cells can
in the course of time produce osteoporosis which cause the bones of many
older women in particular to be very fragile. Suffice it to say, you
will be amazed that anything so incredibly complex and highly integrated
as our skeletal system could ever have been designed, let alone evolved,
and that it can continue to perpetuate its precise structure in every
developing baby and go on to sustain and repair itself in adult life.
You will see why it is that the "old preacher" said nearly 3000 years
ago: "As you know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones
grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so you do not know the
works of God who makes all" (Ecclesiastes 11:5).