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50 billion atoms make 1 simple cell. I contain 75 trillion of these “simple” cells. 75 trillion! Every 4-5 seconds 50,000 of my cells die and are replaced by 50,000 new cells. My body contains 25 trillion red blood cells. They live 120 days. My body also contains 25 billion white blood cells. They live 12 hours. That means my body is making 50 billion white blood cells every single day. This is incredible to me. These red and white blood cells flow through my circulatory system. There are 75,000 miles of arteries, blood vessels, and capillaries in my body, (enough the circle the earth 3 times!) all forming my circulatory system.

I will take 10 million breaths this year. My lungs are all folded up inside of me to function properly, but if unfolded, my lungs would cover an area the size of a tennis court.

All of this is made up of DNA, my genetic code. This DNA is inside of every single cell inside my body. This tiny little strand, in each of my 75 trillion cells, is 6 feet long. So that’s 75 trillion cells x 6 feet of DNA per cell. That’s enough DNA, if you connected it in one continuous strand, to travel to the moon and back 20,000 times. This DNA, this genetic code, decoded by scientists, contains these nucleotide building blocks made up of a combination of adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C). These A T G C codes form random sequences whose characters accumulate to 3 billion+ characters (that’s per strand). 3 billion+ characters are in each strand of DNA, and each DNA strand is in every single one of my 75,000,000,000,000 cells.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14). For me, this is proof. When I say “I know there is a God” instead of “I believe there is a God,” this is a huge part why. And to credit all this to chance or a big bang or anything other than God, for me, is just out of the question.

//Bring it World
-Brian Purkiss

Facts gathered from Louie Giglio’s talk “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made” - which can be found here.

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Discussion Topic: What is the Difference Between Tolerance and Freedom?

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Back on March 30th, I commented on Honjii’s blog saying:

So if I can’t use God to determine or prove anything (because of ‘Circular Reasoning’), then you can’t use reason.
Meaning, if I believe something because God says so, then what’s wrong with that? You believe something because ‘reason’ tells you so, what’s the difference? We both believe that a ‘higher power” (God and Reason) determines what we know. Let’s both use that.

On April 1st, Simen of import Mind.Reason made a post of his own mocking calling me a “true fundamentalist.”

I then proceeded to partake in a discussion with Simen (aided by Allison, a regular SW Reader) on my comment.

Simen evaded our questioning and refuesed to answer several of our questions - including the original question, “If Athiests can use reason to prove something, then why can’t Theists use God to prove something?”
I asked Simen that very question (with some word variation) seven times out of eight comments - and he still never answered it. Even when I said:

And since you still haven’t answered my original question, I assume you don’t have a response to it but don’t want to acknowledge that I’m right.
So why can’t I use God to prove things when you can use reason to prove things?

he still didn’t answer the question, said I’m “dead wrong,” and still didn’t answer my question.

I can see where he’s coming from, but to flat out not answer a question just seems a bit extreme.

Pray for him.

//Bring it World
-Brian Purkiss

//Continued from A True Fundamentalist

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How to win (or not win) the presidency.

Courtesy of ClusterFlock.org and GracefulFlavor.net

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Isn’t it awesome when you can find one quote, or part of a song, that’s really short, simple, and easy to remember…that is helpful in a million different ways? 
Maybe it’s something common and cliché, like ‘don’t hate, appreciate’, or ’stop drop and roll.’ Whatever the case may be, these phrases have been ingrained into our mind, so that when we encounter the problem… our brain hits play on that broken record down in the subconscious.

For me, (as always) however, it’s a little different. 
I have two of these… phrases. The first has been very helpful to me, in many situations - from bad grades to moody siblings, a death in the family to horrendous nightmares.

“Acceptance with joy.”

Think about that for a second.

Acceptance… sure, that’s easy enough sometimes, when we actually *had* no choice in the matter to begin with. 
But what about this…. joy?

What *is* Joy?

Well, as for myself, to find out what something is, first I must discover what it is not. I wrote this in a letter to myself recently.

Joy is not a feeling. Thus, it must be a decision.
Joy is not relative to situation. Thus, it must be unconditional.
Joy is not accepting. Thus, Joy must be embracing.

Decide that you will unconditionally embrace what God gives you. That… is Joy.

“Count it all Joy my brethren, when you encounter various trials… knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.”
-James 1:2

Count it *all* Joy. Acceptance, with Joy. I’m sure most of us could swallow the acceptance part. Joy… embracing tragedy? It goes against everything in our human nature. (that just shows me how much it is of God I guess.) To, when encountering ‘various trials’, to be able to look yourself in the eye and know that “it is well with [your] soul”

“When Peace like a river atendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll,
Whatever my lot,
Thou has taught me to say,
It is well. It is well with my soul.”
-Horatio Spafford

Make a decision… for joy. To unconditionally embrace what you are faced with. Yes, we are human, yes, we will falter, but Joy is a lifestyle - not a moment.

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
-Philippians 4:13

Got Joy?

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