Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Psalms 139 14 NKJV

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Psalms 139: 14 NKJV I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

The Problem • You are a cell in the wall of a blood vessel • There is an infection nearby • You need to alert the clean-up crew of the body to come take care of it • What do you do?

The Solution • Raise a red flag for the white blood cells to see

Inner Life of the Cell was envisioned as “… a project that would explore the cell, that would explore the truth and beauty inherent in molecular and cellular biology so that students could understand a larger picture that they could hang all of these facts on. They could have a mental image of the cell as a large, bustling, hugely complicated city that's occupied by micromachines. ” - Dave Bolinsky

“And the cell will actually manufacture the parts that it needs on the fly, from information that's brought from the nucleus by molecules that read the genes. No life, from the smallest life to everybody here, would be possible without these little micro-machines. ”

Delivering Your Products • When your factory produces goods • You need them delivered to where they can be used or sold • A shipping company • They send tractor-trailers – Trailer – Container that holds the goods – Tractor – the 18 -wheel semi that hauls the trailer over the road • It is the same in the cell

The Tractor-Trailer of the Cell • Trailer – Vesicle – Holds the goods • Tractor – Motor Protein – Hauls the goods where they need to go

“This is the Fed. Ex delivery guy of the cell: this little guy is called the kinesin, and he pulls a sack that's full of brand new manufactured proteins to wherever it's needed in the cell -- whether it's to a membrane, whether it's to an organelle, whether it's to build something or repair something. And each of us has about 100, 000 of these things running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing. ” – David Bolinsky

“And these micro-machines really are at the heart of life. These micro-machines, which are the envy of nanotechnologists the world over, are self-directed, powerful, precise, accurate devices that are made out of strings of amino acids. And these micro-machines power how a cell moves, they power how a cell replicates, they power our hearts, they power our minds. ” – David Bolinsky

“So what I want you to do when you go home is think about this, and think about how powerful our cells are, and think about some of the things that we're learning about cellular mechanics … and believe me, we know almost a percent (<1%) of what's going on. ” – David Bolinsky

“These are expressions of truth as awe-ful things, meaning, they are things you can worship. They are ideals that are powerful, they are irreducible, they are unique, they are useful. ” – David Bolinsky

Psalms 139: 13 -17 NKJV For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

Questions • Are we fearfully and wonderfully made? • Does my soul know God’s works are marvelous? • Based on what I know of the 1% of cellular mechanics that scientists have figured out so far, do I think it is likely that the other 99% will demonstrate that an intelligent Creator was unnecessary for the formation of life?

Genesis 2: 7 NKJV And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Questions • Does the part of my life that is under my control demonstrate the wisdom of God’s will as well as the part that is not under my control? • If I know that God’s works are marvelous, do I also consider His thoughts to be precious?

Psalms 139: 13 -17 NKJV For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. … 17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

Questions • Does the part of my life that is under my control demonstrate the wisdom of God’s will as well as the part that is not under my control? • If I know that God’s works are marvelous, do I also consider His thoughts to be precious? • If I cannot know His thoughts from His creation, where can I find them out?

Sources • Full video http: //multimedia. mcb. harvard. edu/anim_in nerlife. html • Animator’s presentation http: //www. ted. com/talks/lang/eng/david_b olinsky_animates_a_cell. html