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54 THE MIRACLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

The Faculty In Us: The Thymus
On biological examination, the thymus would seem
to be an ordinary organ without any particular function.
The work it does, however, when studied in detail, is
quite unbelievable.
In the thymus, the lymphocytes get some sort of
training. No, you have not misread this. The cells re-
ceive training in the thymus.
Training is an information transfer, which can be ex-
ercised on beings with a certain level of intelligence. So
there is an important point that needs mention here.
What gives the training is a lump of meat, which is the
thymus, and what receives it is a miniscule cell. In the
last analysis, both are unconscious beings.
At the end of this training, lymphocytes are equipped
with a very important body of information. They learn to
identify the particular characteristics of the cells in the
body. In some sense, the lymphocytes are taught the
identities of the body cells. Finally, these cells leave the
thymus loaded with information.
Thus, as the lymphocytes function in the body, they
do not attack the cells, the identity of which they have
been taught. Any other cell or foreign matter is at-
tacked and destroyed by them.
For years, the thymus was considered to be a ves-
tigial organ by evolutionist scientists and used as so-
called evidence for evolution. In recent years, however,
it has been revealed that this organ constitutes the well-
spring of our defence system. After this was under-
stood, evolutionists, who once proclaimed the thymus
to be a vestigial organ, now advanced a totally opposite