and here is one fascinating thing I learnt...
I'm sure at some point we've all seen a picture of Michelangelo's "Creation of Man" panel from the roof of the Sistine Chapel, in Rome.
(i've seen it in real life and it is gorgeous!)
Well, look carefully at the figure of God above, and then follow the pictures below....
a human brain...
the human brain superimposes perfectly onto the figure of God...
some more explanatory drawings...
So scientists think that the surrounding image of God was actually purposefully painted by Michelangelo to resemble a human brain!
Ain't that fascinating?!!
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For copyright purposes, here are the 2 websites that I got the pictures from: website a & website b
6 comments:
Happy New Year, Antonia! And belated Christmas wishes (I've not been online much in the last few weeks.)
I've tagged you for a meme on my blog. :-)
Oh, how cool is that! I like this idea.
Wow! Or perhaps divinely inspired? That is amazing.
That's fascinating! Michelangelo certainly knew about faith and reason!!!
A couple of comments:
1. I thought the cranial nerves were also represented in the picture. I don't have any good picture to back up that statement.
2. I think the picture sums up the whole condition that Fallen Man is in: There is God, nearly falling off of His cloud, stretching waaaaay out there to touch the hand of Adam. Then there's Adam, lounging back and making no effort to reach toward God. I think this is our tendency, to be lazy, unless we make an effort to reach out to God. And He is always extending Himself to reach us no matter where we are.
God bless
Hello,
I am the admin of the www.anlak.com, and these images are taken from there, so I kindly put a reference to our page from here: http://www.anlak.com/?p=35
(they are published under CC License Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)
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