It's Tuesday, January 11, 2022. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well you know the basics of how biology works.

Human beings have human hearts, pigs have pig hearts,

but as a last Friday there's a human being whose actual life is being sustained by a pig heart that has been transplanted into his chest.

The operation took place last Friday and it's being billed as a major medical development.

It took place at the Medical Center at the University of Maryland.

The patient who received the pig heart was David Bennett senior and as of yesterday it was

reported that he was doing well Mr. Bennett knew that this was a very first

in terms of modern medicine he knew that when it comes to any kind of innovation

like this, the survival rate is not high. He knew that the surgery had never

been done before, but as he said, quote, it was either die or do this transplant he said I

want to live I know it's a shot in the dark but it's my last choice end quote

it's a very interesting development and one that from the Christian worldview presents a number of huge issues.

But even as you just look at the field of medicine, even in the secular environment of modern medicine.

There are many questions that arise from this

and they're being acknowledged even as the press is breaking the story

just yesterday of how the transplant has taken place.

For one thing, it is extremely interesting to note that transplantation is just a very, very

recent medical development.

We're talking about just the last half century in terms of any meaningful sense in which the

transplantation of human organs and tissues can be described as anything like normal medicine. But just in purely secular terms that's how so much of

medical progress moves forward. Something is considered unthinkable, then

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