Every animal you can think of — mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians — has a brain. But the human brain is unique. It gives us the power to think, plan, speak, imagine… It is truly an amazing organ. The brain performs an incredible number of tasks.

It controls body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.

It accepts a flood of information about the world around you from your various senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, etc).

It handles physical motion when walking, talking, standing or sitting.

It lets you think, dream, reason and experience emotions.

The brain is the centre of a complex computer system more wonderful than the greatest one ever built by man. The body’s computer system computes and sends throughout the body billions of bits of information, information that controls every action, right down to the flicker of an eyelid. In most computer systems, the information is carried by wires and electronic parts. In the body, nerves are the wires that carry the information back and forth from the central nervous system. And in just one human brain there is probably more wiring, more electrical circuitry, than in all the computer systems of the world put together. Yes, it is a wonderful thing this brain of ours.

“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well” (Psalm 139:14).

Categories: Mankind