The ear is as much an acoustic marvel as the eye is an optic one. The inner ear is like a keyboard with 330,000 keys, because that is the number of different tones/frequencies, range from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz that can be detected. Not only does the ear perform the function of hearing, it acts to control equilibrium as well.
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The Eyes
No scientific instrument is as sensitive to the light as a person’s eye. And in the dark, its sensitivity increases 100,000 times; one can detect a faint glow, less than a thousandth as bright as a candle’s flame. He can see light from the stars, and the nearest of all stars is 25 billion miles away!
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God made the sun – it gives.
God made the moon – it gives.
God made the stars – they give.
God made the air – it gives.
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The modern 7-inch-long lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles in length; it can write an average of 45,000 words; and it can take an average of 17 sharpening.
Errors Still
The French Academy took 297 years to write a book of 263 pages. Grammaire de L’Académie Française was written from 1635 to 1932 and when finally published, it contained fifty errors.
