YOUR DESIGNED BODY: Why Does Your Blood Clot at a Wound?

Everybody at one time or another has suffered a wound that bled. A paper-cut on a finger, a punch to the nose that draws a red flow, or a deep slice from a slipped knife that requires stitches. Been there, done that.

But what if your body’s blood didn’t clot at the wound site? You would bleed to death. So the ability of our blood to clot can be the difference between living and dying. But there are also times when clotting itself can be fatal. How does your body know when to clot and when not to clot?

Engineer Steve Laufmann, co-author with Howard Glickman MD of the widely acclaimed “Your Designed Body,” points in the following 4:32 Discovery Institute video to the the clotting process as one of literally thousands of what he calls “design patterns” found in the human body. Wondering about that photo of the woman putting a finger to her nose? That requires a couple of muscular design patterns. There are many, many more of them in each of us.

All of these design patterns must be present at birth or life is impossible. Think about it: Doesn’t leave a lot of time for the Darwinian Evolutionary process of Natural Selection to operate, does it? Our bodies must have a designer!

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