[Apologetics] Astonishing molecule that binds us together

[Dianne Dawson]

There is an article on http://spiritdaily.com/laminin.htm about "Astonishing molecule that 
binds us together" that is a short version of the original article (http://medievalmind.blogspot.com/2008/05/laminin-and-colossians-115-17.html)


Thursday, May 15, 2008 
Laminin and Colossians 1:15-17 
My uncle just passed this on to me from a friend of his:

A couple of days ago I was watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio...and I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share what I
learned....but I fear not being able to convey it as well as I want. I
will share anyway.

He (Louie) was talking about how
inconceivably BIG our God is...how He spoke the universe into
being...how He breathes stars out of His mouth that are huge raging
balls of fire...etc. etc. Then He went on to speak of how this
star-breathing, universe creating God ALSO knitted our human bodies
together with amazing detail and wonder. At this point I am LOVING it
(fascinating from a medical standpoint, you know.) .....and I was
remembering how I was constantly amazed during medical school as I
learned more and more about God's handiwork. I remember so many times
thinking....'How can ANYONE deny that a Creator did all of this???'

Louie
went on to talk about how we can trust that the God who created all
this, also has the power to hold it all together when things seem to be
falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.

And then I lost my breath.
And it wasn't because I was running my treadmill, either!!!
It was because he started talking about laminin.
I
knew about laminin. Here is how wikipedia describes them :'Laminins are
a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural
scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue.' You
see....laminins are what hold us together....LITERALLY. They are cell
adhesion molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the
next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And I knew all
this already. But what I didn't know is what laminin LOOKED LIKE.

But now I do.
And I have thought about it a thousand times since (already)....
Here
is what the structure of laminin looks like...AND THIS IS NOT a
'Christian portrayal' of it....if you look up laminin in any
scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see...




Now tell me that our God is not the coolest!!!
Amazing.
The glue that holds us together....ALL of us....is in the shape of the cross.
Immediately Colossians 1:15-17 comes to mind.

'He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth , visible and invisible,
whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things HOLD TOGETHER. '

Colossians 1:15-17


Call me crazy. I just think that is very, very, very cool.
Thousands
of years before the world knew anything about laminin, Paul penned
those words. And now we see that from a very LITERAL standpoint, we are
held together...one cell to another....by the cross.

You would
never in a quadrillion years convince me that is anything other than
the mark of a Creator who knew EXACTLY what laminin 'glue' would look
like long before Adam even breathed his first breath!!

We praise YOU, Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JoVeta Wescott
Ex. Dir. Kansas Parish Nurse Ministry, Inc.
www.KansasParishNurseMinistry.org

Now, like Thomas, I am not one to accept things without a bit more evidence. So I did a brief google search, and found corroboration
here, here, here 

and most incredibly, here.

May those who have eyes to see praise Him.Posted by Beth B  at 10:21 PM


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It's really amazing.  Now for the literalists out there, http://www.snopes.com/glurge/laminin.asp has the story also.  While they don't say it isn't true they do try to explain it away.  However if you look at the picture at the bottom of the page, from an electron microscope, you can decide for yourself if laminin has a cruciform shape.

Dianne


 
Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.
Ps 42:1


      
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