Monday, February 4, 2008

Quirky Snippets!

Well here is some food for thought:

1. Who was the very first Anesthetist?
Ans: God
2. Who was the very first Surgeon?
Ans: God

Reference? Bible, Genesis Chapter 2: 21,22
I find this very interesting.
"So the Lord caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;" - Exactly what anesthetists do: Put patients into 'deep sleep' before painful surgery.
"and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh" - Exactly what surgeons do: After the patient is in 'deep sleep', open, tinker around doing what they have to, then 'close the place with flesh'.
Here comes the best part still: After 'taking one of the man's ribs', what did he do? "Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man"!
Guess what the rib is known to contain? Stem Cells!!
So did God use Stem Cells from Adam, do a bit of genetic modification, replace the 'Y' chromosome with 'X' and let it grow? Adam does say Eve is 'bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh'.

To me, Science is the attempt to unravel the mysteries hidden in Creation. This is one mystery everybody is trying to crack!

A final one to munch on: "God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life": What is 'dust' of the earth? Silica, Carbon- two of the most stable elements in nature. Contained in fossils and diamonds among other things!

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