Miracle Babies: Survival

Animal babies, even elephant babies are just so cute!  Probably never thought you would read that on this blog, eh?

But there's no denying their cuteness.  I suspect that is a quality given us by G^d for preservation of species.

I find it miraculous that baby animals ever survive to adulthood, yet they do each year.

As a physiologist I find it quite remarkable that we survive at all.  We do not realize it, but a LOT of things have to go correctly each day for our survival.  We may be slightly hardier than baby animals in the wild, but we are still teetering on the brink of death.  I figure all of us are within a minute or less of death.  A blood clot lodges in the wrong spot, and within some seconds we are dead.  If our blood fails to clot, it may take a little longer, but we are still dead.  If our red blood cells are over-produced, in a few weeks we are dead.  If they underproduce, same thing happens.

There are a lot of miracles in the world.  As a scientist, I try to explain away as many "miracles" as I can, but guess what, there are more scientists than ever, doing more studies than ever, and yet we never run out of miracles to investigate.

Yes, indeed, if scientists are honest, every research study yields more questions than answers.  As I have said before, we are getting dumber at a faster and faster rate.

Yes, it is a miracle that animals survive to reproduce.  Same for us.

Thank you L^rd for the great miracle that is life.