Rev. Kathi's Message

The cartilage in your joints is smoother than glass and has a friction coefficient five times less than ice. The more exercise we do the more our bones produce a hormone that boosts mood, fertility and memory – staving off frailty, depression and dementia. We are made of seven billion billion billion atoms, the constituent elements of which would cost £96,546.79 ($163,364 Canadian) on the open market. These amazing facts are found in a new book The Body, by American-British author, Bill Bryson.

Did you know that if you laid all the DNA in your body end to end it would stretch beyond the orbit of Pluto? “Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system,” he writes; “You are in the most literal sense cosmic.”

Bryson’s research explores the mystery of life: why $163k worth of atomic matter self-organizes into the miraculous and autonomous beings that we are, when the very same combination of elements can be found in a typical pile of inanimate garden soil. He concludes that no one knows why or how life happens.

Other research has determined that we all contain in our bodies minute particles that originated in outer space. Joni Mitchell had it right, we really are stardust.

All of this convinces me that we are indeed “fearfully and wonderfully made” - as the Psalms say. If science alone cannot explain how life happens, maybe we can agree with Albert Einstein who once wrote:

Religion and science go together. As I've said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal—the search for truth. Hence it is absurd for religion to proscribe… scientists. And it is equally absurd when scientists say that there is no God. The real scientist has faith… The soul given to each of us is moved by the same living spirit that moves the universe.

 

Rev. Kathi

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