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HARUN YAHYA
duty: From outside the cell, it procures the necessary molecules for the
organelles to continue their functions, and for the cell to stay alive. Of
all the numerous substances in the environment surrounding the cell,
this membrane identifies the ones that the cell needs and allows only
these inside. It is also very economical, never taking in more than the
required amounts. And at the same time, it identifies and immediate-
ly removes harmful waste products within the cell. Another of the
membrane's duties is to immediately communicate to the center of the
cell messages sent via hormones from the brain and different organs
of the body.
To be able to carry out all of these functions, the membrane must
obviously be aware of all activity and developments within the cell, it
must take stock of and control the necessary and extraneous sub-
stances within the cell. And it must possess a superior memory and
decision-making ability.
What sort of "coincidence" could have brought about such an
intelligent pile of lipid molecules?
Let us ask a further question, which by itself is enough to bring
evolution to its knees. Is the so-called "intelligence" that carries out
these processes a property of the membrane itself?
We are not talking about a computer or robot, but a thin layer of
lipids with the occasional protein dispersed throughout, surrounding
a cell. In this cell membrane is no thinking center or a brain that can
carry out such complex processes. You will never find one, because as
its name suggests, it is just a membrane.
Such superior features, in this structure with no ability to think,
are displayed by God, Who presents another clear sign to prove His
existence. In the face of all this evidence, those who reject Him are left
with no excuse.

The Gates of the Cell
In the cell membrane are mechanisms that sometimes act like a

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