I think it probably says something about me that I get excited whenever my instructor talks about digestive enzymes in my anatomy class. For those of you who have known me for a while you will probably remember that my stomach and I are not always best friends. I fall under that ambiguous umbrella of IBS: Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Thankfully for me it is easily managed by diet. I am the queen of label reading when it comes to finding out how much fiber a supposedly whole grain cereal has, and my husband says that since we got married he has never been so regular in his life. In order to combat my physical ailment I decided to educate myself to wellness. I know more about the way the human digestive system works than you probably ever care to hear about.
The past two weeks (holy wa, 2 already!?) have shown me just how fascinated I am by the human body. It's gross and complicated and beautiful and simple all at the same time. As much as I have been enjoying my guitar classes, anatomy wins the favorite award, hands down. The way God put us together is truly amazing. And it reveals his logic. Something Alex often talks about is how the God of the Bible is different from any other god in that we can actually know Him. God is mysterious, yes, and we certainly will never be able to fully understand Him, but He can be known. I have come to understand that one of the ways in which we can know God is by studying nature and science.
During the early years of American intellectualism the study of science and christianity went hand in hand. It was not until much later that the two became divided when man became falsely convinced of the superiority of his own intellect (if we were so smart you'd think we woulda figured out by now how to fix our screwed up lives, wouldn't we?). There was a time when people studied our world because they believed that God created it in an ordered fashion that could be understood and would make logical sense. Studying the body has shown me just how very true that is.
In anatomy there is a rule that structure determines function. Your bones are put together in such a way as to allow you to move and manipulate your environment. Even down to your very cells God built everything in your body to work a certain way, and it's functioning is simply an amazing, complicated, delicately balanced work of art. How beautiful!
We will be starting our cadavar labs in a few weeks. I am so excited. I hope I don't throw up.
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