In his book Fearfully and Wonderfully Made co-authored with Philip Yancey Dr Paul Brand observed ldquo A hummingbird heart weighs a fraction of an ounce and beats eight hundred times a minute a blue whale rsquo s heart weighs half a ton beats only ten times per minute and can be heard two miles away In contrast to either the human heart seems dully functional yet it does its job beating times a day ndash times a minute with no time off for rest to get most of us through seventy years or more rdquo The amazing heart so thoroughly
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