Without these little things, your small intestine would need to be 600 times longer to accomplish the same thing! (That would be over 2.8 miles long!) Know what they are? Read on to find out.

I marvel, not only at the way all of nature functions in unison, but also at the little things involved in that harmony. In the human body alone, we could see this in the complexity of any one of your six trillion cells!  In addition, every system of the body has amazing detail! Let’s consider, for example, the digestive system.
When the food you eat leaves your stomach and enters your small intestine, sugars have been digested perhaps 50%, fats haven’t been digested at all, and proteins have only begun to be digested. The real work of breaking down complex chemicals into simpler useable ones takes place in the 23 feet of your small intestine. Muscles turn the food in three different directions, thus mixing it with the juices excreted from the pancreas, liver (and gall bladder), and from the walls of the small intestine itself. But how is this simple nutrition going to get into the blood stream? It must come in contact with and pass through the thin wall of the small intestine to get into your blood stream. Yet, though the small intestine is an inch in diameter and remarkably long, that alone would not be enough surface area for the majority of the nutrition to do us any good. God knew this when He made us!
The small intestine is not smooth on the inside but jammed with folds and finger-like projections called villi. In turn, each villus is covered with thousands of minute microvilli, each only one 10,000th of a millimeter thick! Your small intestine has so many of these that the surface area is increased 600 times to a fabulous 6000 ft2. In other words, to do the same work of absorption without villi, your small intestine would need to be almost 14,000 feet long! That would certainly make us all look fat!
Question: how did man function before the villi supposedly evolved? Since he couldn’t, how do we account for the fact that we’re alive and well today? It must have been designed in working order from the beginning! And that same Designer, Jesus Christ, is interested in the ‘little things’ of your life today!