From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
Peter Robinson ·
March 15, 2012 at 5:37pm
Technologist Alexander Tsiaras has used an array of new techniques, including magnetic resonance imaging, to track the development of the human from conception to birth.
Tsiaras, who during the project served as the Chief of Scientific Visualization in the Yale department of Medicine, remarks that he found the developing human body
so perfectly organized a structure that it was hard not to attribute divinity to it.
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Re: From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
Incredible. And subversive.
May '10
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I don't know about you but I was shocked by the first graphic after the title in his presentation.
Baby's first division? A mere day after conception a TED talker had the audacity to call it a baby?
May '10
Re: From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
Thanks for sharing.
May '10
Re: From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
I saw a similar movie back in the 90's titles "The Miracle of Life". I tried to show it to my children when they were asking how babies came to be. About 5 minutes into it, my 5 year old turned to me and said, "I don't understand a thing." Hm. Maybe a little too much information.
May '10
Re: From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
Knock off the superstitious religious stuff. This all came about by probabilistic accident through myriad parallel beneficial genetic mutations.
Just ask Fred Hoyle or Francis Crick.
Feb '12
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Thank you! Beautiful!
May '10
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Watching the video and listening to the doctor's awe of the design of the human body, I feel the same way in the anatomy class I am taking. Just the mechanism by which an electrical impulse is generated down an axon into a muscle fiber almost brought me to tears, it's so amazing.
Feb '11
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It's telling how Tsiaras tries to soft-pedal the notion that these cells comprise a self: "I'm here to stay," they cry out. But he is bold enough to proclaim this unborn being "a mystery.. magic... divinity." I am heartened to hear these words from an acclaimed scientist.
Edited on March 15, 2012 at 6:36pmMay '10
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Jordan Rodriguez: It's telling how Tsiaras tries to soft-pedal the notion that these cells comprise a self: "I'm here to stay," they cry out. But he is bold enough to proclaim this unborn being "a mystery.. magic... divinity." I am heartened to hear these words from an acclaimed scientist. · 31 minutes ago
Edited 28 minutes ago
You have to have no imagination or emotions at all not to be impressed when studying science.
Jan '11
Re: From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
Wow!
Nov '11
Re: From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
This was an amazing video, Peter. Thank you for sharing it.
Re: From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
Duane Oyen: Knock off the superstitious religious stuff. This all came about by probabilistic accident through myriad parallel beneficial genetic mutations.
Just ask Fred Hoyle or Francis Crick. · 6 hours ago
Well and truly said, Duane, well and truly said.
May '10
Re: From Conception to Birth. Astounding.
The loudest my daughter's ever cried was the day she was born -- three months premature and not a whole lot bigger than a Barbie doll.
Anybody who tells you that's not a baby in there is either terribly ignorant or telling a very terrible lie.
Apr '11
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None of them are ignorant. They're all telling a lie. That they know they are lying makes it all the worse.
Genesis 1:27 - So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
Creation allows for science, yet "popular, modern" science does not allow for creation. The statement by Tiaras that "divinity" has a part to play is very telling, and very inspiring. For a scientist to publicly allow for, let alone state, the hand of a divine being in life is momentous, possible even historic, in scope.
Feb '12
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I have the great privilege of teaching students about the molecular machinery underneath processes like those shown above. As I regularly emphasize to my students : "the closer you look, the better it gets". It does my heart good to see the following from a student. Alas, Felicia isn't taking my course.
Nov '11
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Thank you, Peter! A sacramental experience. @ Scott Reusser: Hug that daughter of yours for me, so glad she's here - I arrived 4 months premature myself...Good things come in small packages.