Grow a New Arm
Some animals grow back lost tails, lost arms, lost teeth, and more.
This is called "regeneration". It is an amazing ability.
Obviously, someone is smarter than us because we cannot copy the technology that already exists. We would love to learn how to reverse engineer the power of regeneration we see in shark teeth, lizard tails and octopus arms.
Stem cell research isn't giving up completely on what we can't copy, but an effort to persuade nature to build for us what we know we cannot build. Imagine the high level of skill required to invent the power of regeneration for a kidney or a permanently damaged ear.
Octopus is Always Eight
We see the lizard intentionally lose its tail then grow it back.
An octopus can drop an arm to distract a predator, but later it can grow a new arm.
Basically, there is no such thing as a 7-armed octopus because they always grow it back.
The shark will lose teeth and then will grow back new teeth. All of this is called "regeneration".
Pull the Tooth and Grow a New One
If only you could go to the dentist, plant a seed and within months grow new teeth like the shark can. Wow, that would be fantastic technology.
But we do not yet have that power or knowledge.
So far, we do not even have a good theory on how we could ever do such a thing. A tooth, like everything else in nature, is far more complex than we expected once we begin to try and duplicate it. Your real teeth are alive.
Prosthetics Nowhere Close to a Real Hand
Part of our liver can regenerate, and ribs to limited degree.
I doubt any of us will live long enough to witness scientists regenerating a hand from man-made manufactured parts. Maybe they can guide stem cells to to grow back a lost hand with nerves, blood vessels, bones, muscles, tendons, fingerprints and healing skin that can also build a callus when stressed with friction. No prosthetic comes close.
It may not be impossible to someday build a hand like the ones that grow in the fetal stage, but it is absolutely impossible today.
Oh We Wish We Could
When you think about that fetal stage construction when both hands are generated, they are opposite but matching hands.
So such a hand IS POSSIBLE to build, but not by us, not by humans.
We cannot claim it is impossible to build, just impossible to be built by man. Our hands can be generated, not regenerated.
Make What God Can Make
Of course, we don’t know how to regrow lungs, hearts, or brains. We are working with stem cells which do things that seem miraculous.
Our current science is groping for ways to do what we witness daily worldwide, but are not able to do. We cannot make teeth or hands, except cosmetically.
Like a plastic plant that neither grows, blooms or reproduces. We cannot comprehend how to make the functions.
Mankind has a great wish to regenerate everything that breaks or gets old.
We don’t know how to grow the things with which we are endowed in our mother’s womb.
Heading Goes Here
We cannot pretend there is no genius here. We cannot fake that this elusive genius technology is the fruit of mindless acts. Despite all our best efforts to reverse engineer the biology that astounds us, we cannot.
Rather than state these marvels are beyond our intellect, multitudes of the educated people call it a wonderful accident, which is calling it "below our intellect".
Below our intellect? Design above our intellect?
I do not call it magic or an accident, but easily superiority that I spontaneously admire.
