The Digestive System with Bill Morgan

Okay, now this is my normal speaking voice. Can you guys hear me? Or should I shout a little bit?

Oh, no, it'll be fine. But I'm going to go ahead and do a little disclaimer. And also, and also, welcome, welcome you. So here we go. Let's get started. So the disclaimer is, as a reminder, if you're here in zoom, please keep your camera off and your microphone off.

However, for people in zoom, and even for people on Facebook, I just want to mention that our speaker tonight loves interaction. So those of you in zoom, keep your finger near your button for the microphone so that you can turn your microphone on to answer his questions when you have them.

If you're following along on Facebook, feel free to type answers into the chat, even if we don't read them right away, it'll make you feel like you're participating, which is always fun. So okay, with that, I'm Terry cameras out.

And I'm here with creation fellowships. And we're a group of friends bound by our common agreement that the creation account as told in Genesis is a true depiction of how God created the universe and all life from nothing in just six days a few 1000 years ago.

We've been meeting most Thursday nights right here on June on zoom since June of 2020. In fact, tonight's speaker was our very first speaker Bill Morgan. We've been blessed with presentations by pastors, teachers, doctors, cartoonists, scientists, apologists, prophecy speakers, and all around smarty pants people who love the Lord and have a message to share.

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And you can also email creation fellowships and T at gmail .com. So you get invitations to our upcoming speakers. Tonight, we're pleased to have back for his fourth visit with us. He gets a trophy or something for that.

Our very first speaker Bill Morgan. He's a longtime friend of our ministry. He's been a mechanical engineer for 37 years. His work includes design work for on nuclear submarines. He was raised going to church but became an atheist when his biology teacher told him that he was a descendant of ape men.

He truly thought Christians were anti science morons. Sadly, science led him back to Christ and he's debated over 40 atheists and he goes street witnessing three to four times a week telling lost sheep about truth, hope, peace and eternal life.

And you can find his YouTube channel by searching for Bill Morgan channel on YouTube. And you can call him at 714 -898 -8331 if you so desire. And with that, I'm happy to turn it over to you,.

Bill.

The Digestive System and the Design of Digestion

Thank you very much. And his level of my voice. Okay, for everybody. It's perfect. Okay. And I love participation. I think it makes for a better lesson. Like she said, I'm a very old engineer. Yeah, difference between me and you regarding this topic because I've done a few hours of research.

Yeah, it was fun research. And we are going to what we're going to try to share the screen. Oh, I got a I would love to share the screen.

But I have a question for you. Sure. Okay. If you set up higher in your chair with with the level of your voice be higher.

What's the sound of one hand clapping? I don't know what the question is. Do you want me to talk louder?

No, no, I was I was being obnoxious. That's all I was saying. You said is the level of my voice? Okay. And I said, if you set up in your chair, would it be higher?

Okay, you're killing my timing. I'm just kidding.

Ahead,.

I'm gonna get the bouncer to throw you. I'm just kidding. Actually, I'm in my studio. So which is my bed. I just go back to years ago where I would drive to Santee after working a nine hour day and man, are we getting soft and easy?

Amen. Okay, well, I would love questions and comments. I am certain some of you know more about the digestive system and certain things that I do. And I'm not an expert in zoom. Is that possible to go back and forth from the slides?

Or we can see faces on the side, right?

Yeah, Bill, on your side, you can adjust how you see it. So like, I can slide the shared screen over so that I can see but but honestly, like we have our cameras turned off. I can keep mine on if you'd like me to.

Okay, totally up to you. But anyways, I'm in charge of a creation ministry in Garden Grove, California, we meet once a month. And I have found out that my favorite age level to speak to is about fifth grade.

The adults like it, they bring their kids, we get lots of kids who come now. And I do not enjoy creation lessons where the guy is 600 miles over my head, that I don't understand it, and I can't use it.

So everything in this lesson, I think a third grader would be able to understand and still learn a lot and be awed by God and his greatness. So as you can see, the lesson says the human digestive system.

And if anybody ever wants to interject, please feel free to do so. And you want to be done by eight, correct?

I'm by 750. So we have time for questions.

Okay. All right. There once was a pastor in Alaska. And unfortunately for him, he loved golf, which was a hard thing to do in Alaska. So one Sunday morning, he wakes up in the summer and it's 70 degrees with a little bit of breeze.

The sun is out. And he goes, Oh, man, I can't go preach today. I gotta go golfing. So he feels really, really guilty. He calls in sick. And he drives about 100 miles away. So nobody will notice he's golfing on the Sabbath.

So he gets to the first hole, hits his drive, and it rolls and it rolls and it rolls hole in one. Second hole, he hits it, it rolls and it rolls another hole in one. Third hole par three hits an iron hole in one.

So St. Peter finds God and says, Hey, God, you see what's going on here in Alaska, and God goes, I'm fully aware of it. I'm in charge of it. And St. Peter goes, Why are you doing that? He said, Who is he going to tell?

Okay, I don't know if you guys got it or not. But anyways, it is nice to tell fantastic, exciting news to proclaim great news. And this lesson proclaims the greatness of God in things we take for granted, like our digestive system.

Truly, the only time we think about is when something's not working too good, amen. But we should be grateful right now of our digestive system what's going on. So what is the definition of digestion?

Does anybody want to pop in a quick guess?

Breaking down of an organic substance.

Very, very good. You probably know this stuff better than me. Not like digestion is where when food breaks down to become either energy, or the materials to repair and build new tissue, everything that you are originated from your food.

So food can turn into energy and repair tissue. Now if you're an atheist, that alone should convince you. And when I teach lessons like this, I say if you come in as an atheist and leave an atheist, science is not your issue.

Something else is keeping you in your atheism. I believe this lesson proclaims the greatness of God and his design. So what does digestion do?

Breaks down into nutrition to feed your body and your muscles. Oh, was that a question?

Well, the pictures show that that's the food. Digestion breaks down the food. Digestion is demolition. It's the demolition of the food and the things that our bodies can utilize. There's two ways your body breaks down this food.

And little details like this just fascinate me. One way that your body breaks down food is mechanically, like with your teeth, and with your grinding stomach. And the other way is what? Chemically. God gave us all kinds of enzymes and other chemicals to break down the food.

So the food is broken down by different means. Neither one of them could have evolved by a step-by-step process. Both of them had to be designed in place at the beginning. And my slides are available if any of you want them.

I would be thrilled and honored if you ever turned my slides into a lesson at your church. And they can easily be obtained. So and I and I have a cheat sheet that I can email you after the lesson with notes.

Oh, that'd be great. And then I can disseminate that through our our email chain.

Yes, I would love to send it. And God is so great. When we eat proteins, they're broken down into amino acids. When we eat fat, it's broken into fatty acids and glycerol. And the carbohydrates are broken down in simple sugars.

Then we have something called metabolism. Guess what metabolism does? Metabolism for our body's needs, the amino acids become proteins, the fatty acids become fats, and the simple sugars become carbohydrates.

Isn't God a God of creativity and genius, everybody?

Indeed. Amen.

Who would like to read this verse? I would like someone to read this verse.

For the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty and the awesome God, Deuteronomy.

Yes, he is. Today, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about the journey of an apple. Where do apples grow? Anybody can answer? It's not a trick question.

On trees.

Apples grow on apple trees. This is my third to fifth grade level, but I'm going to be making a point. Now, how does the apple tree reproduce?

By seeds?

Yep. It reproduces by seeds, the apple falls and it's got seeds inside of it. Now, there could be a big problem. If that apple tree had the seed fall straight down, where does that tree want to, where is that seed going to germinate?

Right underneath the tree, right? But we have a God of genius beyond proportion. So God invented, God solved this problem. How?

With poop.

Exactly. Birds say yummy, an apple on the ground, I'm going to eat it. They eat the seeds, they fly a mile away or so. Then they go to the bathroom. And you've got apple seeds germinating all over the place.

Isn't that beautiful?

Can I say about that? Apple seeds are actually very good for you. I know they have, they people say they have some have arsenic in them. But if you don't eat too many of them, it's actually very good for you.

And it also it fights cancer. And now I'll mute.

Nice. Good. Well, this bird is gonna not die of cancer then that's for sure, right? But just simple things like that, like an oak tree. They couldn't reproduce without the birds eating and depositing the waste a distance away.

Trivia time. Anyone can answer. For what part of your body does digestion.

Start? Your mouth, saliva.

Good answer, but not the answer that I have.

Really? That's what I would have said.

What happens?

Oh, chewing?

Nope, even before that.

Your eyes when you see what you want to eat.

There's a hint.

Brain.

Exactly. If you see that, your body's going to start thinking what? Yummy, yummy, yummy. What a creative, beautiful God. Look at the colors, the shapes, the sizes. Digestion begins with our eyes. The apple was pleasing to Eve's eyes, remember?

Well, the fruit, the fruit, not the apple. But I believe digestion starts with our eyes and gets our brain and our body thinking about it. When you see something delicious, your body can start what? Producing what?

Digestive enzymes.

Right, right, right. Your body can start the digestive enzymes and the saliva. So just look at that for a second, guys. We take it for granted. Is God an artist when he creates food for us?

I would say. That's a lot of color.

Absolutely. Different colors, different shapes, different tastes. He provided us with so many options. Just imagine if the whole world was nothing but bananas. But nope, that's not how our God operates.

I think right now it is bananas.

I'm sorry, what?

I was having a commentary on bananas. I said, I think the world has gone bananas.

I just focus on the Lord. I like to tell people just focus on thankfulness and the Lord and don't worry about Afghanistan. We can't do anything about that, right? Except pray. But besides beauty, taste, nutrition, most fruits and vegetables are sized for one serving.

Now suppose God made bananas that big. There'd be a lot of wasted food, right? But he makes them a serving size. Have you guys ever thought about that before?

Well, it kind of depends on who you ask because some people will tell you that half a banana is a serving size.

True. And the huge watermelons we have is from selective breeding. But probably back in the original state, they weren't that big. But he doesn't waste. That would be a waste of food if it was that big.

Who would like to read this verse? Anybody can.

Chime in?

I'll read it. Ecclesiastes 3 .11 says, He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Next time you guys go to the supermarket, I hope you embrace the beauty of God's food. Amen.

I do that at the farmer's market. Oh, what is that? Oh, starfruit, starfruit, or kiwano?

Yeah, that's actually in the supermarket I went to. Just a little example of God's creativity and beauty. That looks like one of those World War Two contact mines, doesn't it? Just look at the symmetry of the seeds.

What a fantastic.

God.

Yeah, this is kind of like watermelon seeds, like it's related to a watermelon.

Yeah.

It's another example. I just Googled beautiful fruit.

That jackfruit, has anybody ever tasted that? When I lived in California, my aesthetic, the lady who did my nails, esthetician, she's from Vietnam. And they would once a week bring in a big jackfruit and cut it up.

And I ate it to be polite, but I didn't like it.

Well, I once read that our body has all kinds of bacteria. And if you eat a certain food, you'll develop more of a certain type of bacteria and actually develop tastes for things. Isn't that something?

So if you ate a lot of jackfruit, you would probably develop a taste for it. So just some more examples of just having fun with Google. But just glorifying the God. What a great God. He spoke all of this into existence.

Well,.

That's Salmonberry. I hope that's not a GMO.

Okay, I need a volunteer for something really easy. Who would like to volunteer? Shout out your name.

I volunteer Jim.

Okay, Jim. You're the judge of a beauty contest, Jim. Which one is most beautiful?

Oh, I like number two.

Okay, there's no bad answer. The point being fruit is beautiful from a beautiful God. So after our eyes, what is the second part of your body digestion starts with? Anybody?

Well, I'm gonna guess the enzymes because like we talked about with the eyes, the eyes cause the saliva and the enzymes to get going.

Okay. And don't lose sight of work. Goofball than anything else, guys. Hint. What could be the second thing that starts our digestive system?

Anybody?

Chewing?

I believe the sense of smell. Just think if God created ugly fruit that smelled terrible, but was very nutritious, nobody would what?

Eat it.

Right. God made food beautiful, and God gave it beautiful aroma so that we would take it. Nutrition wise, it doesn't have to be beautiful and smell good. But God knows what he's doing.

How about an amen?

And also, isn't there some type of connection between the sense of smell affecting the taste as well? There's a. I think there's a strong connection there.

I am absolutely going to touch on that. Luke, thank you for sharing that.

I'm sorry.

No, no, I'm glad you did. I love participation. Please don't apologize. Like I said, I love participation. So and doesn't food smell better when we're hungry? So if apples were ugly and smelled awful, nobody would eat them.

So now, Terry, now you can give your answer. Your vision and sense of smell now produce what?

Digestive enzymes. Saliva.

Yes. Let's talk about Dobermans. Now we're gonna talk about saliva. Is saliva a design? Or is saliva the result of chance? What do you guys think?

I think it was a design to torture parents and dog owners.

Well, you may never look at saliva the same after this meeting. And I can email you all this stuff on saliva later. It just blows me away. Is it simple or complex? It's very, very complex. Let's have two people play over and under one person guess the number and the next person says over or under.

So Terry, I'm going to ask you to volunteer someone to guess the number of proteins in saliva.

I am going to volunteer, Jeff.

You know, okay, Jeff.

4000.

How many?

4000.

Okay. Now, I would like you to volunteer someone to say over or under Terry.

I'm going to volunteer Bill.

Under.

Bill is correct. But Jeff, you came up with a great number. 2300 different proteins are in saliva. If evolution were true, did one evolve and then a second one evolve? You see what I mean? Third? No, God designed them all at once.

Does that make sense,.

Guys?

Terry needs to call in someone to name all 2300.

How would you like to have the job of counting and discovering proteins in saliva?

I named Robin to do that.

Well, we're only going to touch on four proteins. Now, as you know, enzymes are proteins, well, probably do. Cellulase breaks down plants, amylase, carbohydrates, proteins, proteins, you guys get the point.

The different proteins are there ready to start breaking down different parts of food. But they do other things and just break down food. Here is my favorite list of the meeting. I would love to hear from you smart people some of the things that you think saliva does besides break down food.

It lubricates your gums. I'm sorry, what? So your teeth in your gums won't dry out because that will cause breakdown of your teeth.

Guess what number one on my list was? Right there. Saliva keeps our gums healthy, and our teeth by neutralizing acids from bacteria. Just today I went to the dentist and he said cavities are often caused by bacteria producing acids that can destroy our enamel.

So saliva kills acid from bacteria. Okay, what's another one? And there's no bad answers.

So whatever makes a great cleaning solution for eyeglass.

Lenses.

Absolutely.

Saliva makes stamps stick to envelopes, if they're old fashion.

Yeah, for the old school people, right? They don't. Even my son's girlfriend said she'd never wrote a letter in her life. She's 17. You know, she's a very smart girl, but she'd never written a letter in an envelope.

But any other guesses? Imagine if you didn't have saliva, what couldn't you do?

Swallow.

You couldn't swallow, right? What else?

I was gonna also say that saliva is an early warning system for people when they're gonna throw up.

Yeah, we're gonna talk about barfing later. Anyone else? And that's actually number nine on my list. What are we doing right.

Now?

Talking.

Could we talk if we didn't have saliva?

It would be hard because our our lips would be sticking together.

When you wake up with cotton mouth, try to talk. It's very, very difficult. So I'll go through my list of 10. And I'll ask for a volunteer to pick the number one most awesome one. Saliva forms layers on our teeth, that attracts calcium to protect our teeth.

It protects our teeth from losing minerals. We have antibiotics in our saliva that fight infections. Saliva helps with clotting. Sadly, we get mouth wounds quite often, you know, we bite our lips or our cheeks.

Well, God designed saliva to help with the clotting and the healing. Thank you, Lord. We could not talk if we didn't have saliva. Food would rip us up and tear us apart if we didn't have saliva. Amen.

Saliva tells us that we're thirsty. Robin touched on this before we throw up. It lubricates to enable the matter to be discharged. And saliva has a painkiller. How many more times powerful than morphine?

Six times.

Six times. Let's talk about the pain. Oh, who wants to pick? Terry, could you randomly pick someone and they can pick their favorite one?

I choose Luke.

I think the pain one's my favorite one because I don't know if anyone's ever actually done this. But sometimes when I get a mosquito bite, I'll like lick my finger and put it on there and it kind of helps mitigate.

I've done that. I've even licked them.

Wow. Interesting. Well, I'm going to talk about the painkiller because that just fascinates me too, Luke. If I'm mispronouncing it, you can shoot me. Opiorphine, whatever. I knew it a month ago when I gave the lesson.

I saw this on the internet. In 2007, they said they discovered this enzyme in our saliva. And at the time, the journals said it had no known purpose. Now, I'm not being arrogant, but I knew it had to have had a purpose.

Why is that? Anybody can answer. Why did I know if it's in our saliva, it has a purpose?

It doesn't create without purpose.

Yeah, right. So in a 2019 article, they found out what it's for. 2019, a study determined there was more Opiorphine in the mouth of people with dental pain. So think about this. If we have an owie in our mouth, our body produces more painkiller.

Isn't God great? And people are researching this enzyme for painkillers like after surgery and things like that. Because as you know, morphine is very, very addictive. They're optimistic that God's painkillers will kill the pain six times more effectively and not be addictive.

Any comments on that?

Yes. Next time at work, if someone says they have a headache, I'm going to offer to lick their head.

Okay.

Can you get rich selling your saliva?

You can get rich if you can find a market for anything.

Who would like to read that verse?

Oh, Bill, why don't you go ahead and read the verse?

Be still and know that I am God.

I met the other Bill.

I'm sorry.

Be still and know that I am God.

Amen. Amen. So is the production of saliva simple or complex?

Anybody?

I would say with 2300 proteins, it would probably be a little complex.

My knees buckle when I look at the design, the engineering, the chemistry, fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics. What do you got? Just anybody awestruck and just want to share what's on your mind when you see something like this?

How would you make that stuff in an organic chemistry lab? How would you manufacture that molecule?

It's unbelievable. The production of saliva is incredibly complex, and there's different glands that make different types of saliva. And because I like to stay in the third or fifth grade level, I can't get much deeper than this.

But how many people in this room would say I couldn't even come close to drawing that?

I have a hard time looking at it because it's kind of gross and I get real queasy. I get queasy. I don't look at the pictures in the doctor's office.

Oh, okay.

That's okay. I'm looking away.

Draw that.

Go ahead. What?

Draw what? Draw what?

The glands, the teeth, the tongue, the muscles. I mean, we're looking at a two dimensional drawing and we're blown away. But God, every design starts with what?

A designer or a blueprint.

Starts with a designer. And what does a designer do first?

Conceptualize the idea.

You have to have the idea first. So God had the idea. We'll just talk about humans, that humans needed saliva. So then God has to do what?

Make a recipe.

Design it, and then he has to build it. Your house started with an idea, then a design, and then built it. So God had to think, how am I going to produce saliva for humans? Hey, I'll make all these different glands and all these different ducts.

Isn't he awesome? And then he had to build it. And people talk about intelligent design. Of course, I love it. I think intelligent construction is more difficult than intelligent design. What do you guys think?

I'm an engineer. I've done some designs where I basically drew a box and said, put this unit here. Someone had to build it. Any comments on that design? And the intelligent construction?

Well, I'm an infrastructure engineer, and I have a lot of clients that come up with these ideas. And when I tell them that's not possible, they want to be there like, why? Well, you're not designing this.

You have no idea what you're talking about. You have no idea how this can't be done. But then we end up having to do it anyways.

Yep. It's like the Aesop's Fable where the cats or the mice got together and said, Hey, I got a great idea. Yeah, what is it? Let's put a bell around the neck of the cat so we can hear it coming. It's a great design, but what's the problem?

How are you going to get that bell on the neck of the cat, right?

You got to get close to the cat to do it.

Right. So design is one thing, building it is another. And I say this humbly, I worked construction. And the construction guys I worked with that never went to college were just as smart as the engineers.

They just had different skill sets. Would you guys agree?

Yes. Absolutely.

Absolutely. There are geniuses out there. I love them. So I'm zooming in a little bit more for your pleasure. But every little muscle and gland God had to think about it before he designed it. And I humbly say if someone's an atheist, they're either been brainwashed like I was, and didn't think about it.

Or they're so emotionally mad at God, they will never believe in him. So what we got to do is reach the innocent people that have been brainwashed, and they will turn away from atheism. But some people never will, but some will.

What household item uses the same three enzymes that we find in saliva? Anybody?

Cleanser?

What? Pardon me?

Cleanser,.

Laundry detergent.

So then Robin could lick her clothes clean.

Robin, if she spits enough can clay save a lot of money on laundry detergent. But just saying, if you were working for Tide, and you wanted food stains to be broken down, what could you look at?

You can't tell me that nobody on this call has never licked their shirt after dropping something on it in attempt to clean it out.

And it can work it breaks down.

I've never done that. But I'm just saying.

Sure we do. And it works. So Tide has the same enzymes that we have in our saliva.

But still doing the.

Good engineering is often just copying something else. And God did the greatest enzyme breaking down. So why not copy him? Amen.

Isn't that called bio mimicry?

Yep. Yes. And we all do it. So after your eyes and the brain decide you want that apple, here's a hint right here. What happens next?

You pay for it.

Yes, hopefully. Yes. Except if you're Johnny Appleseed. Well, here's another thing we take for granted our teeth. Is every tooth identical?

No.

No, God designed the right teeth at the right location. Also on dogs. The front teeth are beautiful for tearing and chewing. The and the dog the fangs are great for holding and ripping and then you got these beautiful molars for crushing.

If evolution were true, how in the world that each tooth go in the right location, the right place, etc. It's silliness. Any comments on teeth?

Well, yeah. Yeah, you should say all right.

Agreed.

We could do a whole lesson perhaps just on the design of the tooth. You need your blood vessels, your enamel, which is the hardest surface in the human body, etc. Oh, years ago, in my creation group, there was a structural engineer who went to a dentist and he didn't do a good job.

So he did a very detailed structural analysis on teeth. On what's the best the bridge, an implant, etc. And he said the closer we go back to God's original design, which would be an implant, the better.

USC, University of Southern California saw it and liked his article. But in the preface, he says, I write this in glory of God and his design. And USC said, we like your article. But could you take that out?

And he refused to take it out. And USC wouldn't accept it. Wow, it was an engineer looking at teeth and compression and.

And did he decide that implant was the best because I'm facing this?

Yes, don't go with the bridge. Go as close to as the original of individual teeth as you can.

God designed popcorn. And I love popcorn and popcorn is not good for your teeth.

No, I love popcorn, too. Yes. What do you think that's an image of?

That?

That's a child's mouth. The adult teeth are coming on in and the baby teeth. It looks like chaos, right?

Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

Isn't that shocking?

Oh, no idea.

That's really gross.

Alpha Rat, could you share more on your thoughts of this amazing.

Picture?

Yes.

All I can say is wow.

It looks like absolute chaos and confusion. And that is an actual skull of someone who passed away. But we just take it for granted when we have children like up the baby teeth, they're falling out, the big teeth are coming in.