[NOTE: I heavily edited the grammar and spelling mistakes in this quote.]
"Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg,
Phosphorus: 800 g, salt: 250 g, saltpeter:100 g, Sulfur: 80 g, Fluorine: 7.5
g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3 g, and 15 other elements in small
quantities.... that's the total chemical makeup of the average adult
body.
Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single
example of successful human transmutation. It's like there's some missing
ingredient..... Scientists have been trying to find it for hundreds of
years, pouring tons of money into research, but to this day they don't
have a theory.
For that matter, the elements found in a human being are all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowance.
Humans are pretty cheaply made." (Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1)
Well, now, Hiro, if you bothered to see past your materialist lenses, you'd recognize that (a) man is so much richer than his chemical components (just the fact that you're puzzled by it all testifies to that), and (b) transmutations aren't possible bec. of genetic barriers...amongst other things {snort}.
PS: the "missing ingredient" you're so flummoxed by is openly identified in this text. And if you really want to challenge your alchemist mind, get a load of THIS!
"In Jesus Christ all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
