Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

This blueprint-like / microchip-like picture illustrates all the chemical reactions our body undergoes at various times of the day and under different circumstances.  

What makes it amazing is that these reactions do not contradict one another and are highly regulated by a number of molecules.  One mistimed reaction, and the body goes into chaos, resulting in death or sickness to the individual.   Looking at all these reactions and discussing them in class has given new meaning to the Bible verse that I've memorized since first grade: I will praise Thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Marvelous are Thy works.  (Ps. 139:14).   

I admit that I am not a very religious person and that I am far from living the ideal Christian life, but looking at this vast network of body reactions has always strengthened my belief in the existence of an all-knowing and powerful God because such an organized and synchronized system could not have occurred by accident . Only a Creator could made a living machine that is as complex as the picture above.  Only a loving and compassionate God could have designed it in such a way that the reactions do not contradict each other and affect other pathways or produce by-products that are harmful to us.  This metabolic blueprint speaks both of the power and love of that Creator.  

Indeed, "from Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love." (taken from the last chapter of EG White's The Great Controversy)