Summary Of Wayne Jackson's The Human Body-Accident Or Design

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The Human Body - Accident or Design? By Wayne Jackson, 3rd Ed. Courier Publications 1993, 2000, 2013, 143 p.
The book, “The Human Body - Accident or Design? By Wayne Jackson is a detailed review of the many complex systems that make up the human body. The book has been written in a “parallel manner” if this is even a term. What is meant by this is that Wayne Jackson wrote this book with all levels of education in mind, that all may be able to understand the entirety of the book. He writes that he is in debt to two doctors, Dr. James Clark retired Ob/Gyn and Dr. Harrell Dodson, surgeon and professor. The combination of knowledge of the human body that these two men have make this book amazing and then Jackson concludes each chapter by simplifying it for those of lesser understanding and knowledge of the human body. Never straying away from the main point, that being that the human body is too perfect for chance that each system within the body is perfectly designed and therefore there must be a designer.
Wayne Jackson notes in his preface that the book took a long time to put together and this is understandable since he tried to fit as many
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Wayne Jackson added six appendixes with loads of amazing information about the human body. Although they are all interesting and amazing in it of themselves the appendix that captures this writer eye is appendix III. “The God who heals you.” People want miracles and yet they do not recognize the miracles that surround us by way of the way the Lord has made us, perfect. The human body time and time again heals itself. “A cut on your finger triggers one of the most baffling physiological processes known to modern medicine. The healing phenomenon, which takes place gradually in several well-defined stages, and which will even restore your fingerprint, is not understood full even in our modern world of medical knowledge.” (Pg. 131). It restores your fingerprint, how sick is that, He is

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