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Human Anatomy

 

I have decided that with this report, I will defer slightly from the format of the class report, while still adhering to the general theme. I’d rather discuss a deeper issue--a deeper meaning--to what we in the Human Anatomy Class are learning. After all, while knowing the name of every bone in the body and what your blood vessels are made of is important, there is a deeper meaning to why we are taught the intricacies of the body: appreciation.

 

Right now, the class is in the middle of mastering muscle operations. How does your muscle flex? How on earth does your brain tell your finger to type a letter on a keyboard? It is all a highly complex process, which happens in an instant (however I will not venture into writing out just how this happens, but trust me, it’s cool). It is amazingly complicated yet absolutely perfect. As humans anything we make that is slightly complicated (computers, cars, floor buffers, etc) we manage to mess up. Cars break down, computers destroy themselves for no apparent reason, and floor buffers often rule their masters rather than the other way around. Such is not the case with God--His creations do not break without His will, and His creation is under His control. He made it all, knows it all, and rules it all. Perhaps this is why He is so adamant about that whole "thou shalt not kill" thing--for we are made in His image, are we not?

 

In the end perhaps the lesson we are being taught is not how one digests food or feels pain but rather to digest the deep nature of our existence and feel the power in and around us. This is not the only subject to which this principle applies, of course. One example is history--God’s interaction with man over the eons. The point being made is homework is not the point (not that you shouldn’t do it, of course); it is the deeper, more intricate work being done in you and is not in your textbook.

 

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