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JUST WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW?

We know a lot, of course…..and more every day. What has occurred in the last decade is that we have increasingly powerful ways to show visually what we are learning in the biology/biochemistry labs. And what we’re finding is that Bishop Paley was correct, and Hume wrong—at the smallest levels, it is perfectly realistic to compare biological organisms to machines like a watch.

In fact, despite the fact that the film you’re about to watch understates the complexity and “busyness” of the interior of the cell by orders of magnitude, it’s an awesome thought that this kind of activity - so plainly (if we look at it without preconceptions) the result of precision engineering - is occurring at this very moment in almost every cell in our bodies. Billions of billions of cells - each a tiny factory filled with machines doing their myriad jobs…......

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