Skin Intelligent Design
by Owen Borville
Skin in humans and mammals is intelligently designed and could not have evolved over millions of years. In addition, mammal skin did not evolve from reptile scales and evolutionists can't explain how reptiles lost their scales to evolve into mammals.
Skin is not primitive but actually very complex, as it is the largest organ in the body and contains many pores and hair follicles. Human skin covers an area of about two square meters or 21 square feet and accounts for 15 percent of body weight, or nine pounds. Skin contains over 11 miles of blood vessels and the average person has 300 million skin cells. Each inch of skin is made up of 19 million skin cells, 650 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels, and 1,000 nerve endings. The skin is thickest on your feet and hands where you need it to be thicker and thinnest on your eyelids. Hair is found on the entire body except the palms of hands and feet.
The skin is constantly renewing itself, shedding over 30,000 dead cells every minute or nine pounds per year, so the skin is completely replaced within a year with newly grown skin cells below. The outer epidermis layer renews every 28 days. Enough new skin cells are grown underneath to replace the dead skin cells that are shed on the outer layer in a very efficient process that could not have evolved but only be the product of intelligent design. Dead skin cells produce more than half of the dust in your home.
Skin can heal itself by forming scar tissue. If skin is exposed to physical pressure, it can form a callus to supply additional thickness and toughness. Different parts of the body have different types of skin to protect a particular area of the body. If skin could not heal itself, humans and animals would not live long, and this healing could not have resulted from an evolutionary process over long periods of time.
Skin contains more than 1,000 types of bacteria that mostly benefit the skin by helping heal wounds, reducing inflammation, and assisting the body's immune system to fight infection. Without this protection, humans and animals would not live long.
Skin color is the result of a protein called melanin located in cells called melanocytes that produce and distribute melanin and around 7 percent of skin cells are melanocytes. Melanin is also responsible for eye color and the skin covering in the eye is transparent and very sensitive.
The three layers of the skin include the the top epidermis layer, which is full of dead skin cells and waterproof, the dermis layer contains tougher tissue, hair and sweat glands, and the subcutaneous layer contains fat and large blood vessels that connect to muscles.
Skin functions include protection, absorption, excretion, secretion, regulation, and sensation.
Protection: The skin protects against injury damage, toxins, pathogens, radiation, pollutants, and is the first line of defense in the body. The immune cells in the skin protect against infections by alerting white blood cells from the blood vessels in the skin. Without this protection, humans and animals would not live long.
Absorption: Pores on the skin surface can absorb vitamins, acids, water, and oxygen to provide moisture and keep the skin healthy. Skin also helps keeps fluids inside the body from escaping. Skin produces Vitamin D from sunlight.
Excretion: The skin removes waste from the body including toxins from sweat glands and pores. The skin is the largest waste removal organ in the body and without this life would not last long.
Secretion: The skin secrets oils that keep the skin soft and flexible, in addition to protecting the skin from invasion.
Regulation: The skin regulates the body temperature by sweating and when the sweat on the skin evaporates, it gives off heat and cools the body. Shivering and goosebumps help warm the body when cold by using muscles that produce energy and warm the body. During cold, blood vessels contract to keep blood away from the surface. Without this temperature regulation, humans and animals could die of heat stroke or freezing.
Sensation: The skin contains millions of nerve endings that transport stimuli that allow humans to detect sensation such as heat, cold, pain and pressure. Nerves in the skin are connected to muscles that send signals to react quickly to heat or pain. Receptors in the skin respond to pain and touch. Sensation is a very necessary function of skin that humans and animals could not do without. Not being able to feel pain could cause much serious injury leading to death.
Griping: The skin on the fingers and palms is thicker and rougher to allow for the griping of objects, otherwise a glass of water would slip out of our hands.
Fingerprints: Every person has a unique fingerprint in their skin that is used to identify them. How could this be a random accident?
Skin Origin: None of the functions of the skin could have evolved over millions of years without humans and animals dying before reproducing. All of the functions of the skin must have been present at the original creation in order to keep humans and animals living long enough to reproduce. Therefore, skin is intelligently designed from a Powerful Creator.
by Owen Borville
Skin in humans and mammals is intelligently designed and could not have evolved over millions of years. In addition, mammal skin did not evolve from reptile scales and evolutionists can't explain how reptiles lost their scales to evolve into mammals.
Skin is not primitive but actually very complex, as it is the largest organ in the body and contains many pores and hair follicles. Human skin covers an area of about two square meters or 21 square feet and accounts for 15 percent of body weight, or nine pounds. Skin contains over 11 miles of blood vessels and the average person has 300 million skin cells. Each inch of skin is made up of 19 million skin cells, 650 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels, and 1,000 nerve endings. The skin is thickest on your feet and hands where you need it to be thicker and thinnest on your eyelids. Hair is found on the entire body except the palms of hands and feet.
The skin is constantly renewing itself, shedding over 30,000 dead cells every minute or nine pounds per year, so the skin is completely replaced within a year with newly grown skin cells below. The outer epidermis layer renews every 28 days. Enough new skin cells are grown underneath to replace the dead skin cells that are shed on the outer layer in a very efficient process that could not have evolved but only be the product of intelligent design. Dead skin cells produce more than half of the dust in your home.
Skin can heal itself by forming scar tissue. If skin is exposed to physical pressure, it can form a callus to supply additional thickness and toughness. Different parts of the body have different types of skin to protect a particular area of the body. If skin could not heal itself, humans and animals would not live long, and this healing could not have resulted from an evolutionary process over long periods of time.
Skin contains more than 1,000 types of bacteria that mostly benefit the skin by helping heal wounds, reducing inflammation, and assisting the body's immune system to fight infection. Without this protection, humans and animals would not live long.
Skin color is the result of a protein called melanin located in cells called melanocytes that produce and distribute melanin and around 7 percent of skin cells are melanocytes. Melanin is also responsible for eye color and the skin covering in the eye is transparent and very sensitive.
The three layers of the skin include the the top epidermis layer, which is full of dead skin cells and waterproof, the dermis layer contains tougher tissue, hair and sweat glands, and the subcutaneous layer contains fat and large blood vessels that connect to muscles.
Skin functions include protection, absorption, excretion, secretion, regulation, and sensation.
Protection: The skin protects against injury damage, toxins, pathogens, radiation, pollutants, and is the first line of defense in the body. The immune cells in the skin protect against infections by alerting white blood cells from the blood vessels in the skin. Without this protection, humans and animals would not live long.
Absorption: Pores on the skin surface can absorb vitamins, acids, water, and oxygen to provide moisture and keep the skin healthy. Skin also helps keeps fluids inside the body from escaping. Skin produces Vitamin D from sunlight.
Excretion: The skin removes waste from the body including toxins from sweat glands and pores. The skin is the largest waste removal organ in the body and without this life would not last long.
Secretion: The skin secrets oils that keep the skin soft and flexible, in addition to protecting the skin from invasion.
Regulation: The skin regulates the body temperature by sweating and when the sweat on the skin evaporates, it gives off heat and cools the body. Shivering and goosebumps help warm the body when cold by using muscles that produce energy and warm the body. During cold, blood vessels contract to keep blood away from the surface. Without this temperature regulation, humans and animals could die of heat stroke or freezing.
Sensation: The skin contains millions of nerve endings that transport stimuli that allow humans to detect sensation such as heat, cold, pain and pressure. Nerves in the skin are connected to muscles that send signals to react quickly to heat or pain. Receptors in the skin respond to pain and touch. Sensation is a very necessary function of skin that humans and animals could not do without. Not being able to feel pain could cause much serious injury leading to death.
Griping: The skin on the fingers and palms is thicker and rougher to allow for the griping of objects, otherwise a glass of water would slip out of our hands.
Fingerprints: Every person has a unique fingerprint in their skin that is used to identify them. How could this be a random accident?
Skin Origin: None of the functions of the skin could have evolved over millions of years without humans and animals dying before reproducing. All of the functions of the skin must have been present at the original creation in order to keep humans and animals living long enough to reproduce. Therefore, skin is intelligently designed from a Powerful Creator.
