- Series:Humans, Transcript English
John 11:11-12
“These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.”
Physicians have been mystified by and are in the process of studying GOD. But in this case, the acronym “GOD” stands for “generation of diversity.” The diversity that amazes them is the diversity found in our immune system. While we have fewer than 100,000 genes, our immune system is able to generate tens of millions of distinct antibodies to defend and protect itself from disease. How can only 100,000 genes produce thousands of times that many antibodies?
Actually, we have two immune systems. The first is called the innate system. This rapid response system relies on common characteristics found in most microbes to bind and conquer them. The second immune system is called the combinatorial immune system. It is this second immune system that generates tens of millions of different and very specific antibodies. Its response is slower than the innate system because it responds to an infection by making and sending a variety of antibodies at invaders. Depending on which antibodies recognize the invader, the combinatorial system then begins to manufacture more specific antibodies until the invader is conquered.
Researchers studying the details of the immune system are astonished at how evolution could design such a complex, ingenious and precise system. Even from a scientific standpoint, the simpler explanation is that our immune system, like everything else, was created by an all wise, all-powerful Creator!
Prayer:
I thank You, Father, for providing us with immune systems, and I ask You for good health. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Notes:
John Travis, “The Accidental Immune System,” Science News, November 7, 1998, v. 154, p. 302. Photo: A single white blood cell (yellow) engulfing anthrax bacteria. Courtesy of Volker Brinkmann. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.
