Here are 2 snips from David Cloud's news letter for today.

NEW IMAGING METHOD REVEALS STUNNING DETAILS OF 
BRAIN CONNECTIONS (Friday Church News Notes, 
December 10, 2010, www.wayoflife.org 
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is from The ID Update, Nov. 22, 2010: “As 
reported in Medical Daily, researchers at the 
Stanford University School of Medicine, applying 
a state-of-the-art imaging system to brain-tissue 
samples from mice, have been able to quickly and 
accurately locate and count the myriad 
connections between nerve cells in unprecedented 
detail, as well as to capture and catalog those 
connections' surprising variety. Observed in a 
new method called array tomography, the brain’s 
overall complexity is almost beyond belief, said 
Stephen Smith, PhD, professor of molecular and 
cellular physiology at Stanford University. ‘One 
synapse, by itself, is more like a 
microprocessor--with both memory-storage and 
information-processing elements--than a mere 
on/off switch. In fact, one synapse may contain 
on the order of 1,000 molecular-scale switches. A 
single human brain has more switches than all the 
computers and routers and Internet connections on 
Earth,’ he said. ‘In a human, there are more than 
125 trillion synapses just in the cerebral cortex 
alone,’ said Smith. That's roughly equal to the 
number of stars in 1,500 Milky Way galaxies, he 
noted. Mark Hartwig, long time ID advocate, 
commented that ‘Probably the only thing more 
complex than this will be Darwinists’ explanation 
of how a mindless process and time produced such stunning structures.’”

THE LIMA BEAN’S DISTRESS SIGNAL (Friday Church 
News Notes, December 10, 2010, www.wayoflife.org 
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is excerpted from Bombardier Beetles and Fever 
Trees by William Agosta: “Always seeking a meal, 
spider mites are attracted to the leaves of a 
healthy lima bean plant by the mixture of 
volatile chemicals it emits. The mites settle on 
the leaves and commence feeding. Somehow, the 
mites’ activity causes the bean plant to alter 
the mix of volatile chemicals that it releases. 
Those leaves besieged by the mites, as well as 
those untouched, begin to send out a ‘distress 
signal.’ This new signal has a slightly different 
odor from that of an unstressed plant, and it 
carries several messages, each for a different 
recipient. It has a message for nearby lima bean 
plants that are not under attack. When the signal 
reaches them, these plants apparently also begin 
to send out the distress signal, even though they 
themselves are free of mites. The distress signal 
also reaches distant spider mites, but instead of 
attracting these mites, as the odor of an 
unstressed bean plant did, this new odor now 
repels them. Finally, the third recipient of the 
new signal is the carnivorous mites, which are 
recruited to devour the spider mites.” Complex 
chemical signaling mechanisms have also been 
found in cotton plants, poplar trees, sugar maples, and sitka willows.



John
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