“I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;” The psalmist said it, but how often do we think about it? When was the last time you thought about how wonderfully your knee was designed? I have to admit I didn’t really think about it until it started talking back at me, and in February it told me to limp into the Ortho Walk-in Clinic.
I was diagnosed with a tight IT band, the ligament that runs along the side of the thigh, and told that I needed physical therapy. After five weeks of stretching and contorting, my knee was screaming at me.
My chiropractor, who we all know and love, kept the rest of me in good shape, but my primary doctor sent me to a knee doctor. He said he’d never seen a knee problem present itself the way mine did. He took more X-rays and said he could try some knee injections. The cortisone helped for a couple of days, but the chicken fat didn’t help at all.
It was then decided we should look into the possibility of a blood clot and get an MRI of my lumbar region. No clot was found, but the ultrasound did spot a cyst of some type, and all the MRI discovered was expected age-related osteoarthritis.
Last week I had an MRI of my knee, and it revealed both of the meniscuses were torn, a couple of the connecting ligaments had degenerated, and a piece of something was lodged in the bend of my knee. A total knee replacement has been suggested as a possible fix, but I’m going to get a second opinion.
Now back to how wonderfully our knees have been made. Those who believe our bodies were designed through a process of unguided evolution often think we can do better. But an award winning bioengineer said his Intelligent Design perspective led him to believe the human knee featured an advanced linkage design that led him to spend twenty-five years researching and developing bio-inspired knees for robotics.
Looks like the Intelligent Designer knew what He was doing.
God Bless, Rick
Chatham Christian Church 