Page 169 - The Miracle in the Cell

HARUN YAHYA

possess the ability to recognize the human body and change itself
accordingly.
Here we are faced with an inescapable truth: A virus has been
especially created to enter the human body and insert itself into its
DNA.
To use another analogy, imagine that while walking through an
empty field, you came across a highly sophisticated door lock and then
a little while later, you found a key. If you then put the key in the lock
and the door opened, what would you conclude? Would you say,
"What a coincidence! This piece of metal opened the lock by chance"?
Or would you conclude that the key was crafted to open the lock, but
that they had merely been placed in different locations? Being intelli-
gent, of course you would accept the second conclusion.
A virus and the human body have a similar lock-and-key rela-
tionship. A virus that has existed in nature for tens of thousands of
years with no relationship with a human cell, suddenly enters the
body, goes straight to the cell, and opens the lock. First of all, it breaks
down the cell wall, because it has been designed to penetrate this wall.
Then it integrates with the cell's DNA, because it has been created in
such a way that it can do so.
In other words, viruses have been created in order to enter the
human body and cause diseases. God willed for people to be prone to
illness. Since man is liable to get haughty and proud, only with these
types of illnesses can he perceive his weakness and utter dependence
on God.
However, while God creates the disease, He also creates its cure.
While He has created the virus, He has also created a defense mecha-
nism that puts up a magnificent fight against this virus, which is how
mankind can resist so many of the different viruses we encounter
every day.
Moreover, God sometimes uses viruses as a cause of death. God
determines a period of life to whomever He wills, and this determined

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