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THE MIRACLE IN THE CELL
ability to receive signals and give orders when they come together,
and how do they act on these so perfectly?
Where is the brain that directs the amazingly coordinated divi-
sion and differentiation of cells, when the human being is just a single
cell and has no brain to speak of? The mother's brain? But her blood
doesn't even mix with the baby's. What brain gives its orders to a test-
tube baby, still a single cell fertilized externally, while it is beginning
its development in a Petri dish?
Which brain controls a fertilized egg incubated by a mother hen
until it becomes a tiny chick? Is there another secret brain that directs
the single cell of the chick or human baby?
An unbeliever will face this type of questions when he starts to
think more deeply. Eventually, he will have to accept these clear proofs
of the existence of God and His superior creation-which is why he will
continue to avoid thinking about the meaning behind these events
from a wider perspective.
The logic of unbelief is a constant avoidance from meeting God,
blinding oneself to everything that reminds one of Him and turns one
to Him. Blinding oneself to the many proofs of His existence, and
holding tightly to the slightest possibility assumed to somehow sub-
stitute for Him, this person has attributed his own creation, existence
and the continuation of his life to trillions of cells, even to the mole-
cules and atoms that compose these cells. In other words, he has
chained himself to innumerable deities in the form of all these atoms
and molecules.
A verse in the Qur'an informs us of the where and the why of the
perfect coordination of these commands and their source which is
nowhere to be seen:
It is God Who created the seven heavens and of the earth the same
number, the Command descending down through all of them, so that
you might know that God has power over all things and that God
encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Qur'an, 65:12)

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