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Although we hear nothing about his faith or his views on abortion, throughout the lecture Tsiaras refers to what he calls the &quot;marvel&quot; and the &quot;miracle&quot; of an unborn baby&#39;s development. Tsiaras highlights the miracle of life with the following examples:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\t<li>At 44 days the fetus has become &quot;something that you can recognize.&quot;<\/li>\n\n\t<li>At nine weeks it &quot;is really like a kind of little human being.&quot;<\/li>\n\n\t<li>At 25-28 days, the baby&#39;s heart, which resembles a &quot;magnificent origami,&quot; is developing at a rate of one million cells per second.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>At 32 days the arms and hands are developing.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Within five weeks you can start to see the heart&#39;s early atrium and ventricles. A week later the baby&#39;s heart is actually becoming mature.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>At 52 days the retina, nose, and fingers are developing.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>By the time the fetus is full-term, it has 60,000 miles of vessels inside its body&mdash;although only one mile of vessels are visible. The other 59,999 miles of vessels are quietly working to bring nutrients and dispose of waste.<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Tsiaras calls a pregnant woman&#39;s body a &quot;walking immunological cardiovascular system that &hellip; can actually nurture and treat this child with the kind of marvel that is beyond our comprehension.&quot;<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Tsiaras summarizes his talk by saying,<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The complexity of these [facts about human development], the mathematic models of how these are indeed done are beyond human comprehension. 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