Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Human Brain.

And this is by chance?

“The human brain is heralded for its staggering complexity and processing capacity. Its hundred billion neurons and several-hundred-trillion synaptic connections can process and exchange large amounts of information over a distributed network of brain tissue in a matter of milliseconds. Such massive parallel-processing capacity permits our brains to analyze complex images in one-tenth of a second, allowing us to visually experience the richness of the world. Likewise, the storage capacity of the human brain is nearly infinite. During our life-time, our brain will have amassed 109 to 1020 bits of information, which is more than fifty-thousand times the amount of text contained in the U.S. Library of Congress, or more than five times the amount of the total printed material in the world!” [1]

King David wrote under the inspiration of God’s Word:

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalm 139:13–16, ESV)





[1] René Marois, “Capacity Limits of Information Processing in the Brain,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Winter 2005, quoted in Wilson, Andrew (2013-05-21). Incomparable: Explorations in the Character of God (Kindle Locations 398-399).

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