science lesson

buckle up and thinking hats on. bill bryson has something to teach us.

'Atoms are very abundant. They are also fantastically durable. Because they are so long lived, atoms also get around. Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed though several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are so atomically numerous and so vigorously re-cycled at death that a significant number of our own atoms - up to a billion in each of us, it has been suggested - probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more came form Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you can name. (The personages have to be historical, apparently, as it takes the atoms some decades to become thoroughly redistributed; however much you may wish it, you are not yet one with Elvis Presley.)'

i wonder what percentage i am of christ? - charlie