Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized

http://www.ted.com Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

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[Warren Scott Williams]

Watching this reminded me of the words of at Psalm 139:14

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

[m4mcdavid]

Prove that anything can exist without a creator.

[throbgrist]

Wonderful poetic language, Elias. Unfortunately, like in Deepak Chopra's babblings, that's all it is.

[throbgrist]

It's up to us as individuals to make our lives the best they can possibly be. If you want to personally do that by searching within your religion and holy scripture, that's fine. But try not to pretend to speak for everyone else. That is arrogance.

[throbgrist]

More 'Christ-like'? So how does that relate to non-Christians - Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Sikhs, Wiccans, etc.? What's to become of these people. Sheesh, talk about arrogance!

Ever read the Old Testament? Apparently, Mr. Deity displays the supposedly mortal elements of Pride and Arrogance quite readily and quite often Himself.

[Elias Nino]

Once the negative thought ( pride/arrogance, etc..)came to the mind of a human being,and acted upon it, the harmony of our creation became distorted. It is not God to be blamed, we are to work on ourselves to adapt to humility and selflessness. We are to step UP! Up to become Christ like, if humanity can achieve that through the Grace He's already given us! Heavens on Earth.. literally!

[Elias Nino]

Sadly, us human beings went so far from the greatness that God (The Creator) has formed us to Be. He gave us abundance in life, whether it is the breath we have, the brains and creativity we produce, the trees and all life that exists just to keep this universe in the exact right motion. God gave us all, to enjoy, yet we do not trust His goodness and believe we have better chances without him. His light is a guiding light to eternal joy rather than short term happiness.

[throbgrist]

Wow. Thanks for clearing that up. So through the fault of two people, which was very likely anticipated in advance by an all-seeing, all-knowing deity, all of us are condemned with everything from impacted molars to forms of rapidly metastasizing cancer. Such a loving, sadistic creator!

[David Ng]

All evolutionary changes come from series of mutations--running on tips of "toes" (as deers do) are better at escaping predators than running on the whole sole of our feet (as humans do).

But not all mutations are evolutionary changes.

Venn diagrams.

"Macgyvering" is a way to repair, but not all repairs are acts of "Macgyvering".

[Julian Kennedy]

If DNA/organisms don't mutate how else can they change?