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The Heart: The Most Efficient
Machine in the World

propulsive structures that allow them to move. Yet heart mus-
cle cells possess an ability not found in any other in the
body—the ability to shrink and expand, which is why the heart,
which is made up of such cells, beats.
What makes the muscle cells in the heart special is the way
they suddenly begin moving inside the still-developing
embryo. These cells continue beating during transplant
surgery, despite all the nerves connected to them having been
severed and all contact with the organs around them having
been eliminated. Indeed, even when you separate just one of
these cells and place it under a microscope, it will continue to
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pulsate as long as you nourish it with blood. Despite appear-
ing to be outside the control of any mechanism, these cells
behave as if they had literally taken a decision to beat, pump
blood and keep their body alive.
What allows them to beat is the electrical current that pass-
es over them. Every cell making up the heart is literally a liv-
ing battery. They themselves chemically produce the energy
that powers the movement we refer to as the heartbeat. This
feature of the cells is too extraordinary to be explained with
any evolutionist claim. Cardiac cells provide the necessary
electricity for themselves with the potassium and sodium ions
that they can easily find in the blood. Each of the atoms com-
prising these two elements frequently loses a negatively
charged electron. Consequently the atom has an extra proton,
or a positive charge.
Cardiac cells possess a high concentration of potassium
ions, and sodium is present in the fluid surrounding
these cells. The cell membrane removes sodium from
the heart muscles and takes potassium inside. Since
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