It’s a Mouth Full!

Wonders of the Human Body

by Ken Ham on January 3, 2023

Part 7

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This is Ken Ham, author of the new devotional commentary on Genesis, Creation to Babel.

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What’s in your mouth right now? Now, what came to mind probably wasn’t “seven hundred types of bacteria”—but it’s true! They’re important for digestion and for your immune system.

Bacteria live all over and inside your body—in fact, a human body has more microbes in and on it than human cells!

And this isn’t by accident. God designed microbes to help us. It’s only in a cursed, fallen world that some bacteria turned against us and now make us sick.

And did you know that apes have very different bacteria living on them than humans? That’s a puzzle for evolutionists. But it’s what we’d expect when we understand we’re uniquely made by God.

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