Bodies... The Exhibition

WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SQUEEMISH.

SKINLESS CADAVER PHOTOS--

Ken and I had the chance to go to a limited engagement of BODIES The Exhibition while in Hawai'i. Not for the faint at heart, these plastinated human bodies and parts were fascinating and reminiscent of some kind of CSI episode.

I had a few favourites, such as a complicated and difficult dissection of a man's nerves, running from his brain. All you could see was his head, with the nerves coming out of them. I motioned Ken over and said, "This one's feeling a little nervous!"

He returned the favour:

"I have a split personality!"

"Has anyone seen my skin? I'm feeling a bit of a draft."

"Oh, there it is!"

Another favourite was the speciman where a body was cut up like a cucumber similar to what an MRI scan would observe.

All the bodies were displayed with respect and gave me an amazing education on the human body. Did you even know they have been plasticizing animals and man for years and years? In fact, the 14th Annual Plastination Conference is coming up in Germany next month. We've come a long way since earlier centuries of carving cadavers as quickly as possible in the race against rot.

In 2003 The Human Genome Project was successful in identifying the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA and in determining the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that comprise it. In the same year, Dolly the sheep was cloned and lived 6 years after giving birth to 6 lambs.

Consider this!! What is next in this exciting world the Creator has given us to discover?! While this exhibit left Ken somewhat creeped out, he did make a two word comment in the guest book afterwards:

Intelligent Design

No matter what your view on plastination, the human genome project, cloning and the like, you cannot deny that the more we know, the more evidence we have of a Creator.