Fitly Framed Together
The Human Body
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It has been estimated throughout human history, 107.8 billion humans have lived on earth, and no two individuals have ever been alike! Even “identical twins are never “exactly alike. Mathematically, taking all factors into consideration, the probability you being born at all is 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000 power! This probability would be equivalent to, say, two million people, each with a three trillion-sided dice, and if they all roll the dice at once, every single dice lands on the same number! In effect, the chance your being born is basically zero. Since the beginning of time until the end of time, you are special and there have been none like you. You are a miracle indeed!
“But now, O Lord, you are our Father; We are the clay, and you our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand” (Isaiah 64:8). And what a creation we are!
In a life of 72 years, an average person:
will sleep 21 years and be awake 51 years,
will consume 45,000 pounds of food/liquids (52 million calories),
will take 380 million breaths (6.5 million cubic feet of air),
will walk 125,000 miles (half way to the moon);
and our:
feet will strike the ground (or surface) 180 million times,
heart will beat 2.7 billion times,
heart will pump 45 million gallons of blood,
kidneys will “purify” 11 million gallons of blood
and make 9,000 gallons of urine,
body has over 60,000 miles of blood vessels,
lungs have a surface area that could cover a full-length basketball court.
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About the Book
It is interesting how the human body can begin as a single cell yet grow and progress into a 50-trillion-cell physical being. Each cell developed and differentiated into their respective place within the physical body of man. Like the Word of God was breathed through the writers of the Bible, so to God breathed into man life. Man was created by God for God. Fitly Framed Together: The Human Body will take the reader through an organized journey of the anatomy and physiology of the body yet, in an unpretentious way, combining engineering and anatomical features and illustrating how God uses the human body to glorify himself.
The design and nature of the twelve organ systems are unique and indeed fitly framed together, just like the Bible. Following an introduction, Fitly Framed Together: The Human Body discusses how the body is intricately designed and organized. The text then takes us through a journey through the twelve organ systems, describing the working anatomy of each and relating them to scripture and how our body fits into God’s overall creation. Many drawings and illustrations are included. A major feature is a concordance of over five thousand body parts and their scriptural reference. Such topics of discussion include the following:
In His Image
Jesus—the Incarnate of God
Organization of Molecules, Cells, Tissues, and Organ systems
Support and Movement of the Skeletal and Muscular Systems
Control by the Nervous and Endocrine Systems
Maintenance by the Integument, Digestive, Urinary, Immune, Respiratory, and Cardiovascular Systems
The Reproductive Systems of Males and Females
Concordance
The descriptions and accounts of the Bible are in harmony and in one accord. So, too, the human body is put together in physical harmony yet is also in spiritual harmony with God. Jesus was physical and is the cornerstone of Christian faith. The very nature of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is manifested in the human body and is illustrated in Fitly Framed Together: The Human Body.
Although much anatomy and physiology of the human body is presented, Fitly Framed Together: The Human Body is not intended to be a textbook for academic study in the classroom. However, it can be a valued resource that can possibly help your understanding and acceptance as to the creation of man by God and his value to God. By the very nature of the anatomy and physiology of the human body, it must be fitly framed together.
About the Author
Dr. Michael I. Culpepper had been a researcher, educator, and coach for most of his life. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and Chemistry, a Master’s Degree in Physiology and Biophysics and a Doctorate in Exercise Physiology, and Physical Education. He has traveled to Europe and Asia in his teaching and coaching career. He has been active in his church, teaching Sunday School and serving as deacon for over 40 years.
He has published many scientific articles in sports medicine, exercise and physiology journals. Such journals include Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Physician and SportsMedicine, Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, Journal of Theoretical Biology, and others. A previously published book, Fitly Framed Together – the Bible, presents a narrative on the authority and nature of the Bible. He was formerly on the faculty of the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) and Director of Research of the Kerner-Quarterback Sports Medicine Institute at UAB. He taught and coached at the high school level for 28 years.
He is a National Faculty Member of the United States Sports Academy located in Daphne, Alabama, as well a part-time instructor at Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, Alabama, and is a Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine. He has been married to his wife Cindy for nearly 50 years. They have three daughters and six grandchildren. They currently live in Chelsea, Alabama.