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HARUN YAHYA

t some stage in his life, everybody has an
extraordinary event happen to him-a great
adventure we all went through, but aren't
even aware of. That was the day you
began to multiply.
Subtract your age and approximately 9
months from today's date, and you will come
up with the date you started multiplying. That day, you were
nothing more than a newly-fertilized single cell in your mother's
womb that started forming what you now call me. Then you divided
and became two cells. Later, you divided again and became four cells.
This division continued at great speed until a little while later, you
became a mass of tissue given the name embryo. Your bones, veins,
heart, skin, eyes, ears and internal organs formed. A short while later,
your heart started to beat. You became able to see, hear, feel, talk and
think (See Figures 7.2 and 7.3).
This all came about as the result of a single cell, one that we can-
not see with the naked eye, that began to divide. At one stage, all liv-
ing creatures on the face of the Earth-horses, elephants and
mosquitoes-were just one single cell. But that single cell divided and
multiplied. As a result, human beings opened their eyes who were 100
million times bigger and six billion times heavier than that original
cell.

Giving Shape and Form to the Human Being

The act of multiplying mentioned above is no simple process.
For division and multiplication to take place, the original cell must
copy itself, and these copies must in turn produce copies of them-
selves, in time resulting in millions of duplicates of that original cell.
But this whole process is much more complex and mysterious than it

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