Almost every year we cover some sort of health unit about the human body and learn about a wide variety of things spanning the limits of neat and gross, awe-inspiring and disgusting, unforgettable and things we hope to forget before the next meal.
And yet how on the surface all this is.
How can we ever slip into a dichotomy that our bodies are "merely" physical? There is nothing "mere" about them. The human body is such a huge bundle of mysteries it seems to me inconceivable that it can even exist. This entry will list some otherwise unrelated things about the human body not covered in any of our school texts.
~ It has long been a favorite rant of mine that Colossians 1: 17 "And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together" just conceivably may mean that Christ is the stuff holding together the parts of atoms... all that empty space with forces in between. And then a friend sends me a link to this youtube on a related body subject -- laminin. Cool. Not conclusive in any way, but cool.
~ and if you feel like a longish and somewhat philosophical read, you can look at this Tin Can Theory of Man which circulated way back... still worth reading.
~ and then there's the wholly strange. This article from the off-beat Dr Mercola about "tribes of bacteria" living "in your inner elbow" is about enough to weird me out, and make me wonder: will our resurrection bodies have these sort of symbiotic relationships going, too? | 
