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For me, (I don't know why) conception was an easy step, at least that's how my mind was formulated when I was growing up. But recently, studying conception and the development of human embryo got me thinking the other way. I could now see why this video was named "miracle," because it is. It is so complex that even having all the technology, scientist till this day are left to guess in how the embryo forms.
What bothered me is my inability to comprehend this process. How can two cell, (that are hard to see with an naked eye) make a fetus who is just over and inch long and weigh less then a third of an ounce? That is we can see the hands and legs of this baby. I know I was once this kind of fetus but now I am able to run, crawl, eat, see, observe, think and respond to an environment. Think about it, we can't make something from scratch, we use something that already exist. But when we do form something, we don't even come close to how the embryo is made. We came into existence where everything is functioning (that is made beyond human intelligence) and somehow we are left to make sense out of this? No wander the video was called "Life's Greatest Miracle."
I don't know when me and my wife will have a baby, but when we do, I pray so that this miracle would be able to say the same thing as this man said: "Your hand have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments" (Psalms 119:73).
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