Our World - Creation paper for children

million times more information than you could ever learn in your whole life. Your brain can do lots of different things at once — like controlling your heart-beat, breathing and speaking, and dealing with the information coming from your ears, eyes and other senses. Like all computers, your brain didn’t just “happen”, but must have been designed by a super-intelligence. His name is God!

No ape could balance on its toes like the tennis player (left) Apes (right) were made for climbing — that's why they have long arms and short legs. Their feet are shaped just like hands, so that they can grip the branches of trees. Apes don’t find it easy to walk upright like us.

Our bodies have been wonderfully designed by God. But because we live in a world spoilt by sin, we sometimes become ill, and some day our bodies will wear out and die. God's Son, Jesus, came to earth in a human body. He died for us on the cross, then rose again with a new body. He promised that all who believe in Him will live for ever with Him. When Jesus returns to earth, all those who love Him, whether or not they are still living on earth, will be given new bodies! Put your faith in Jesus, then you, too can look forward to having a brand new body one day!

Evolutionists believe that our ancestors were ape-like creatures who came down from the trees, and began to walk on two legs. There are many problems with this idea. Firstly, there are no fossils of creatures which are part ape–part human. Secondly, apes are designed to walk on four legs, with feet that are like hands for grasping branches, while humans are designed to walk on two legs and have feet like no other creature. Our feet have arches so that we can not only stand upright easily, but can also stand on one leg and even on the toes of one foot, something no ape could ever do. Our knee joints are special, too. They lock when we stand up so that we don’t have to keep trying to stay upright. Apes are clumsy and uncomfortable walking upright, and will only do so for a short time.Another big difference between apes and humans is that our head is set on the top of our spine for seeing straight ahead. But try walking on all fours, and you will find that your head is pointing downwards. It seems impossible that animals like apes, which are designed to walk on four legs, could gradually change to walking on two legs. The evidence suggests that we were created specially for walking on two legs, unlike the apes.

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Below are some of the contents of issue No. 94

Inside your body is a framework of bones called a skeleton. Without it your body would be like a bag of jelly! When you are born you have more than 300 bones, but as you grow, some join together so that when you have grown up there are 206, and more than half of these bones are in your hands and feet. You also have a number of joints, which enable you to bend your arms, fingers and legs, move your head, bend down and pick things up. Your joints are moved by muscles which cover your body.

Also in Our World No. 94
Nature Notes: Bird song
No useless left-overs!
Puzzle Corner
Weird and Wonderful: The Dipper

the germs! There are also some cells in your blood called platelets. Although they are very tiny, without them you would bleed to death when you cut yourself. Something tells these cells to rush to the cut, where they become sticky, clump together and seal the wound. This is called clotting. However, as soon as the cut is sealed your blood stops clotting, otherwise your whole bloodstream would become solid! Your blood circulation and clotting system is so complicated that it must have been designed by God, our Creator. It certainly couldn’t have come about by chance!

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Your body has 100,000 kilometers (62,000 miles) of blood vessels — capillaries, veins and arteries — enough to go twice around the world! Blood really keeps you alive as it is pumped through your body by your heart — an amazing organ that circulates 18,000 litres (4,000 gallons) of blood every day. If you could look inside your veins you would see millions of tiny red cells (which give your blood its colour) floating in a liquid called plasma. When germs enter your bloodstream, special white cells appear which attack and destroy

A TINY BEGINNING!
Our bodies are made up of about one million, million cells (top right), each so tiny that you can only see it with a microscope. We all began our life as a tiny cell or egg, which multiplied over and over again. Each cell contains all the information to make a complete human being, but there are special instructions in each cell which “tell” some to become blood cells, liver cells, brain cells, skin cells, or some of the other 200 different kinds of cells in our bodies. Scientists still don’t fully understand how this works, but by the time we are born, all the different parts of our bodies have been created and we are ready to live in the world. 3,000 years ago, king David — who knew much less than we do about our bodies —realised that God had made Him. He wrote: “You made my whole being. You formed me in my mother’s body. I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way.” (Psalm 139: 13-14). David was right. We should praise God for the miracle of human life!