From a
Doctor: "Laminin"
A couple of days ago I was running on my treadmill watching a DVD
sermon by Louie Giglio, and I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to
share
what I learned, but I fear not being able to convey it as
well as I want.
I will share anyway.
He (Louie) was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God
is...how
He spoke the universe into being...how He breathes stars out
of His
mouth that are huge raging balls of fire...etc. etc. Then He
went on to
speak of how this star-breathing, universe creating God ALSO
knitted
our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder.
At this
point I am LOVING it (fascinating from a medical standpoint,
you know.)
.....and I was remembering how I was constantly amazed during
medical school as I learned more and more about God's
handiwork.
I remember so many times thinking: "How can ANYONE deny that
a
Creator did all of this?"
Louie went on to talk about how we can trust that the God who
created
all this, also has the power to hold it all together when
things seem to
be falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.
And then I lost my breath. And it wasn't because I was
running my
treadmill either!!! It was because he started talking about
laminin. I
knew about laminin. Here is how Wikipedia describes
them: "Laminins are
a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural
scaffolding
of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue."
You see....
laminins are what hold us together....LITERALLY. They are cell
adhesion
molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next
cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And
I knew all this already.
But what I didn't know is what laminin LOOKED LIKE.
But now I do. And I have thought about it a thousand times
since (already)....
Here is what the structure of laminin looks like...AND THIS IS NOT
a
"Christian portrayal"' of it. If you look up
laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see!
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