Monday, February 16, 2026

Creation Moment 2/17/2026 - 90,000 miles of wiring

I will praise Thee; 
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: 
Psalm 139:14

"The
superiority of the human brain to our technology is even more striking. Burgess quotes neurologists Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin asking, “How can the brain be far smarter than a supercomputer yet consume 100,000-fold less space and energy?” Burgess then compares the intricate neural wiring to that of our most advanced technology:
"It is impossible to comprehend the level of wiring detail. But to give some idea of its complexity, consider that a Boeing 747 jet has
around 250 miles of wiring. That is a lot of wiring, but it’s dwarfed by the wiring in the human body, which has some 90,000 miles of wiring. Laid out end to end, that would stretch more than three times around the earth…. The nervous system’s 90,000 miles of wiring must be precisely integrated with all the other sub-systems of the body. One of the most common nerve pathways involves the motor nerves that travel from the brain to the many thousands of motor units in the body. As noted previously, the total number of motor units in a human body may exceed 100,000
."." 
BrianMiller