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Epidermal keratinocyte epidermal basal cellkeratinocyte of fingernails and toenailsnail bed basal cell

medullary hair shaft cellcortical hair shaft cell

lacrimal gland cell

magnocellular neurosecretory cell

kidney glomerulus podocyte

adrenal gland cells

nonstriated duct cellcentroacinar cellvestibular membrane cell

dark cell

pigmented ciliary epithelium cellpericytefibroblasts

chondrocyte

mast cell cytotoxic T cell

megakaryocyte

nucleus pulposus cellMerkel cellcholinergic neural cell

adrenergic neural cell

peptidergic neural cellouter phalangeal cell

border cellSchwann cellsatellite cellenteric glial cell

astrocyte

Hensen cell

natural killer cell

microglial cell

neutrophil granulocyte

photoreceptor cells

myoepithelial cellreticulocyte

stem cells

ovarian follicle cell sertoli cell

thymus epithelial cell

inner phalangeal cell nuclear chain cellhepatic stellate cell

tendon fibroblasts

ameloblast epithelial cellpancreatic stellate cell

liver lipocyte

white fat cell

brown fat cell corpus luteum cell

parafollicular cellgranulosa lutein cells

parathyroid chief cell

pneumocyte

hair matrix cellbulbourethral gland cell

stomach lining mucous cell

Bartholin’s gland cell

mammary gland cell

mesangial cell

squamous cell

squamous celloocyte

enteric glial cell

astrocyte

spermatid

anythingbut

At our earliest stage of life, we are just one cell, called a zygote. Within that cell God has placed all the information needed to build our entire body with all its varied parts.

Every part of our body constantly communicates with the rest of our body, sending and receiving information. This information must be converted into electrical signals that are then directed to the appropriate part of the brain and processed. To help in this complex communication network are living nerve cells, or neurons, found throughout our body. These cells pass along electrical signals and relay commands to muscles and other cells that need to take action.

transmitters

Supplying every cell in our body with life-giving oxygen is no easy task. Yet red blood cells (erythrocytes) are designed for the job. Once these cells mature, they get rid of their nucleus and some other parts to make more room for the oxygen-carrying molecule, hemoglobin. The cell’s flexible, doughnut-like shape is the optimum design to move through little capillaries and transfer oxygen to body tissues.

red blood cells

Perhaps the most disliked cell in our body are adipocytes, more commonly known as fat cells. But don’t despise your fat cells. Without them, we would die. They are specially designed to store energy in a semi-liquid state, which our bodies can access whenever we run out of energy directly from food. The average adult has 30 billion fat cells.

Overlaying our skin is a thin layer of dead cells, called corneocytes. The skin must constantly produce new “dead cells” to replace the old ones. These cells are welded together to form a protective armor no thicker than 0.01 mm (the thickness of clear plastic wrap that we use to cover food).

body armor

Our bones must be both strong and flexible. So God made them out of a mixture of hard crystals (hydroxylapatite) and a leathery organic material (collagen). The cells that “grow bone” are called osteoblasts (literally “bone makers”). Osteoblasts make the collagen but not the crystals; instead of making the crystals, they secrete a material that attracts the minerals that will form the crystals. When these cells become buried in bone, they are called osteocytes.

bone makers

our small beginning

osteocytes

adipocytes

neurons

erythrocytes

Every cell reminds us just how “fearfully and wonderfully” God made every detail of our bodies (Psalm 139:14).

corneocytes

From a single cell, every part of the human body takes shape—every organ, muscle, and bone. By the time we reach adulthood, we will have over 30 trillion cells, each performing important tasks to protect and sustain us. Below are just six of the more than 200 distinct types of cells.simple

variety and complexity of human cells

zygotezygoteour small beginning

erythrocytesred blood cells

neuronstransmitters

adipocytesfat cellsfat cells

corneocytesbody armor

osteocytesbone makers

The continents temporarily

come back together

As we step through

the rocks . . .

Warm, wet world

Ice Age

Rodiniabreaks

apart

We encounter evidence of

a brief Ice Age period, the

final transition to the modern era.

We find sediments full

of fossils formed in

catastrophes that decreased

in size as the earth’s crust

stabilized, the climate cooled

and dried, and animals and

plants refilled the earth.

We find thick, uniform

sediments, laid down

by water and full of fossils,

spread across continents

thousands of feet above

present sea level. In these

rocks is also evidence of

rapid splitting and collision of

continents.

We encounter sediments

and reefs that built up

between the Creation and the

Flood.

We see sediments miles

thick without animal

or plant fossils. These were

apparently formed on the edge of

continents as the continents rose

out of the water on Day Three of

Creation Week.

We see created rocks

without any fossils in them.

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Waters of the deep come forth. Global Flood begins.

Waters recede. Global Flood ends.

Proposed pre-Flood

supercontinent

The geologic record is not “proof” of sediments deposited slowly over millions of years. It is merely

layers of rocks stacked in the order they were formed and deposited, waiting to be interpreted.

This order should be interpreted using the biblical framework to designate which rocks came from

Creation Week, pre-Flood times, the global Flood, and post-Flood catastrophes.

(Note: The placement of geologic boundaries between biblical events is still under discussion, as creationists continue to sift through the contents of the rock layers.)

Since the geological column

is stacked layer upon layer,

like shingles on a roof, the

rock record must be read

from the bottom up.

How to read the

geologic record

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