Have you ever heard of the exhibit going around the country called Bodies...The Exhibition? Its last days in Columbus were this weekend, and I 'd been wanting to see it for some time. Of course, I waited to the last minute, but I finally saw it. It ended up turning into a whole family event; my wife, parents, brother and his fiancé, and sister and her fiancé all went too.
I'm a big science guy; I've always been. In college, my favorite classes were the ones that talked about how the nerves and muscles work; anatomy is so fascinating to me. If you've never been to Bodies, and you get the chance, it's well worth the time and money. Not everyone in my family is into science like I am, but they thought it was amazing too.
This exhibit has preserved these bodies and displayed them in a way that is so fascinating. There was this one exhibit that showed a skeleton holding hands with a body that was all muscle. The skeleton was actually the skeleton that came from inside the all-muscle body!
They had this one section that was all about the circulatory system, and I don't know how they were able to do this, but they injected this dye into the arteries of bodies that caused the arteries to harden. After the arteries hardened, they stripped everything away from around the arteries, and all that was left were the red, hardened arteries. There were displays of entire bodies of nothing but blood vessels. You could see the lungs, heart, kidneys, all kinds of things that were in the shape of their organs but all the organ tissue was stripped away to leave only blood vessels. It really was absolutely amazing to see what everything looks like.
The had facts all over the walls that were really interesting.
Did you know that while we sleep, our brain processes the days events and stores the important ones into our long-term memory? I didn't either.
Oh yeah; for those of you that have had gall stones or kidney stones, I feel your pain. Well actually, I saw what the stones look like...ouch!
I also saw what cancer, a smoker's lung, and a brain after a stroke looks like...fascinating.
The baby section showed the development of actual embryos from a dot to a full-size fetus. Some said it was hard for them to go through this section, so I was prepared, but I didn't feel it was sad; I was more in awe.
Having gone through this exhibit, I don't understand how you could believe that we were created by chance events. To be able to see how small and precise our inner ear bones are (much smaller and thinner than a safety pin) just goes to show that something this small couldn't just happen; only God could create something this small. My one word summary of it all...wow! This exhibit was a true testament to the power of God and how awesome His creation really is!
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