Your Brain’s Priorities
Between your two ears is three pounds of matter called your brain containing, made up of 10 billion cells. In 1970 Isaac Asimov stated, “And in Man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.” It is one of the first organs to develop after conception and is clearly identifiable 18 days after conception.
In the protection of your mother’s womb, your brain cells developed in such a way that it could control all the input and output needed to make you an independent individual. About .1% of your brain’s daily activities involve visual images, sounds, touch, pain, smell, i.e. information coming in. This amounts to about 100 million messages a second though most of them are filtered out as unimportant before they reach the brain. Another .2% of the brain’s cells control all motor activities such as walking, writing, playing an instrument, and speaking, i.e. response going out. All the rest of the brain’s activity, 99.7%, is involved in communicating with itself in what we call reasoning, thought, and choice. “The human brain consists of about ten thousand million nerve cells. Each nerve cell puts out somewhere in the region of between ten thousand and one hundred thousand connecting fibres by which it makes contact with other nerve cells in the brain. Altogether the total number of connections in the human brain approaches 10 to the fifteenth power or a thousand million million. . . a much greater number of specific connections than in the entire communications network on Earth.” - creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes9.html Stated another way: “One cubic millimeter, the size of a pinpoint, contains one billion connections among cells; a mere gram of brain tissue may contain as many as four hundred billion synaptic junctions. As a result, each cell can communicate with every other cell at lightning speed as if a population far larger than earth’s were linked together so that all inhabitants could talk at once.” (In His Image, p. 127)
It is the brain’s ability to toss information back and forth that allows us to reason, create, decide, and accept or reject the information we receive. Though studied and mapped by scientists for a lifetime, the brain still contains many mysteries yet to be discovered. It is truly a wonder! Read again the quote beginning this article. Sadly, Asimov was an atheist evolutionist who saw in the order and complexity of the brain no evidence of a Creator. He stated, “I am an atheist, out and out. . . I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.”
Sadly, in 1992 he learned there was a God and that he had been ’willingly ignorant‘ (2 Peter 3:5) of His obvious evidences for design. He learned this moments after his death, but it was too late to repent. The good news is that it is not yet too late for you.