Made in His Image: Life-Giving Blood

ICR ^ | September 2009 | Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D.

[GodGunsGuts]

After 100 years, automobiles still need engine oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, antifreeze, power-steering fluid, and so on. Wouldn't it be great if just a single multipurpose fluid could be circulated from a central reservoir? Each part would use only the needed properties of the fluid, exclude detrimental properties, and then send it back. The new system’s worldwide impact would ensure a huge market--and academic honors--for the clever developers.

This lucrative breakthrough, however, would not be pioneering. Just such a brilliant integration of fluid properties to the diverse needs of the physical body has already been achieved in human blood--in a self-starting process beginning about 15 days after fertilization...

[Last Dakotan]

P.E. M.D. - that’s impressive.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The more you know about how a human body is formed, the less you can believe that it all happened by accident.

[jonno]

Roger that.

[GodGunsGuts]

I never really thought about what that P.E. stands for until you drew attention to it. Thanks :o)

[Nateman]

The body uses lots of different fluids. The fluid in your eyes is not blood. The fluids pumped into your stomach is not blood.

I've come to believe evolution is such an incredibly effective way to produce successful diverse lifeforms that not giving God credit for creating such a wondrous engine of design is an insult to creation itself.

[UCANSEE2]

One could say that GOD, CREATION, and EVOLUTION are three things that MAN only has the loosest of grasp on.

[count-your-change]

Blood is amazing. It has to not clot in the veins yet clot at the site of a wound and then the clotting has to be stopped and there has to be feedback systems to keep everything working in proper sequence and to the right degree.

King David praised God because in a fear inspiring way, he was wonderfully made in Ps 139:14.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Guess Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D. forgot all about......urine, lymph, histamine, bile, the vitreous humor, spinal fluid, inner ear fluid, saliva, stomach acid....

Some M.D.....horrible analogy, Dr.

Gee, Dr.....thanks for ther Physiology 101 remedial lesson....forgot some of that stuff over the years.

False conclusion, Dr. Sure you’re not Brian Thomas *MS?

[xcamel]

Warning!
Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books.
For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.”

-St. Augustine of Hippo, “On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis”, A.D. 408
Buyer Beware!

[Buck W.]

The good “doctor” apparently missed his medical school classes on lymph, saliva, bile, stomach acid, etc.

We know that you’re a fraud, but don’t you feel the lest bit embarrassed posting this crap? Is your faith that weak? I ask this as a Christian.

[Buck W.]

lest=least

[GodGunsGuts]

LOL!

Augustine—The City of God Against the Pagans

II Of the Falseness of the history which ascribes many thousands of years to times gone by

“Let us, then, omit the conjectures of men who know not what they say, when they speak of the nature and origin of the human race. … They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed.”

[GodGunsGuts]

The author never said the body only needs one fluid. He said that a single fluid, our blood, serves diverse needs/mulitple functions in our body. Learn how to read.

[xcamel]

You better read that a few more times. His point is the exact opposite of what you think it it...

[GodGunsGuts]

Click the link, camel. St. Augustine is clearly saying that man was created approx. within the last 6,000 years. LOL!!!!!

[ElectricStrawberry]

Gee....blood has multiple functions.

Gee...motor oil has multiple functions.

The kind Dr made a BAD analogy to appeal to ignorance.....comparing the many fluids of a car to one fluid in the human body is simply a bad analogy....but, if it leads to a false conclusion, that’s good enough for the ICR.

[xcamel]

As usual, any serious reading and analysis would show that you are dead wrong. Again.

[GodGunsGuts]

==As usual, any serious reading and analysis would show that you are dead wrong. Again.

Actually, as usual your Darwin-adled brain is incapable of deciphering the plain meaning of the text. Now pay close attention to the following, because St. Augustine is specifically talking about people like you:

II Of the falseness of the history which ascribes many thousands of years to times gone by

Such men are also misled by certain wholly untruthful writing which purport to contain the history of many thousands of years of time. For we compute from the sacred writings that six thousand years have not yet passed since the creation of man. Hence, the writings which make reference to far more thousands of years than there have been are vain, and contain no trustworthy authority on the subject.

[Liberty1970]

As usual, any serious reading and analysis would show that you are dead wrong.

Xcamel, you are flat out mistaken. Again. Augustine relied on the Septuagint translation and apparently the same methodology as Ussher later used to come up with a young date for creation (the 1600 year difference being directly the result of differences in the Septuagint vs. Masoretic text). This is plain from the text and reading it "seriously" doesn't change anything. There is a total absence of any pre-16th century Christian giving an opinion that the earth is older than a few thousand years.

Feel free to refute that by quoting an early Christian specifically stating an opinion to the contrary. Go ahead, try.