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As the brain fulfils all these functions, the fundamental resource it
uses is electricity, thanks to which, information and commands jump
from one brain cell to another. In your brain, there is sufficient electricity

to power a 15 to 20 watt bulb. Thanks to that energy, the brain commu-
nicates with all other parts of the body, sends them commands and in-
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terprets the electrical messages arriving from them. Not only the cells
in the brain, but all the cells in the body produce and run on electricity. 72
The daylight reaching your eyes, the images on the television, the music
played on the radio, the way you tap a rhythm out with your fingers and
the expressions that appear on your face—all set a series of electrical vi-
brations in motion.
So how does this electricity production take place?
The voltage that carries signals from one neuron to another is gen-
erally very small (tens of millivolts), and these signals travel at a speed
of 100 meters (3,937 inches) per second, or two hundred miles an hour. 73
Neurons can activate to produce a signal once every five milliseconds
(1/1000th of a second).
The brain performs all its functions by use of the nerve cells known
as neurons, as described earlier. Brain cells, no different in terms of their
chemical constituents from cells in the hand, foot or skin, exchange in-
formation about the entire body by using electrical energy as a language
among themselves to transmit all the necessary messages and informa-
tion belonging to the body.
Despite all our scientific advances, this special design in the brain
still remains largely a mystery. Evolutionist scientists despair when
faced with the human mind and the functioning of the brain. Two evo-
lutionists express their thoughts concerning the brain in the book Signs
of Life:

The human brain is the most astonishing and mysterious of all known
complex systems. Inside this mass of billions of neurons, information flows
in ways that we are only starting to understand. The memories of a sum-
mer day on the beach when we were kids; imagination; our dreams of im-
possible worlds. Consciousness. Our surprising capacity for mathematical