The things that make us alive, like blood cells and all that...do they think? Like good germs fighing bad germs, how do they know if they're bad? I wonder if they think we're their creator like we think God is our creator...I don't know. How does a good cell know when to fight a bad cell, and if that good cell chooses not to fight the bad cell the bad one will grow and we'll die. They're trying to protect us and trying to keep us alive...sounds religious??
2006-12-24 09:45:41 · 12 answers · asked by Just Me 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What you're doing is called anthropomorphizing -- thinking of things as if they were human. It's a mistake that can quickly lead you deep into woo-woo land.
Cells don't "know" anything; they simply react to events. Example: I currently have a cold, and the cells in my sinus passages are reacting to the presence of the virus by producing a lot of goo (ewww). It's not a choice, nor is it a reasoned response; it's simply what those cells do, and because they do it, I'll recover. Eventually.
2006-12-24 09:54:05 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure does. And to think that a cell could be formed by some random gasses flying around in the earths atmosphere, starting a complex chain of evolution. There's a theory out there, but the chances are 1over 1 times ten to the thirteenth. For a cell to randomly form, and all the protiens to find where they go in ablank field of nothingness, and everything to link together is like having a tornado sweet through a pile of junk and form an airplane. Cells have been found more complex than an old computer.
2006-12-24 09:54:47 · answer #2 · answered by Lord_French_Fry 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Um.. Ok. Biologically your immune system knows when it's being attacked by an outside germ. That's why you get fevers, and stuff when your body is fighting foreign bodies.
Sometimes your cells don't know and they get confused and they start replicating malfunctioned cells, which usually is called Cancer. No, I don't see how this is religious. But I just started nursing school, so maybe we'll cover that later.
I'm kidding on that extra religious stuff. What planet are you from though. ;)
2006-12-24 09:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by sno 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What about the mites that live at the roots of your eyelashes? What is their purpose in this?
You might like reading a book titled Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski.
2006-12-24 10:06:41 · answer #4 · answered by February Rain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God designed our bodies cells to know the bad ones and to fight them.
2006-12-24 09:48:29 · answer #5 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like life to me; you know chemistry and biology. Nothing to do with religion.
2006-12-24 09:54:04 · answer #6 · answered by Laela (Layla) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is doubtful that they do. They work to rules of biochemistry. Just a blind set of instructions being followed to the letter.
So maybe a bit like religion then.
2006-12-24 09:47:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
God did it rather well, dont ya think? could you build a better body? one that heals itself and all that? gots to marvel at our maker
2006-12-24 09:53:31 · answer #8 · answered by s p 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all done with chemistry. Now go to sleep.
2006-12-24 09:53:51 · answer #9 · answered by 2.71828182845904 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard of cellular memory? Even the atoms are conscious of being.
2006-12-24 09:48:41 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋