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THE MIRACLE IN THE CELL
their own accord. These genes, which
we have been calling letters, have been
created by God, the Master of superior
intelligence and infinite knowledge.
This extraordinary arrangement,
which renders the word "coinci-
dence" meaningless, is a result of
God's perfect creativity:
He is God-the Creator, the Maker,
the Giver of Form. To Him belong
the Most Beautiful Names.
Everything in the heavens and Earth
glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the
All-Wise. (Qur'an, 59:24)

DNA Defies the Notion of
Coincidence

Mathematically, there is no chance for
coincidence in the formation of
DNA's encoded information. The
possibility that even one of the
200,000 genes found in DNA could
have come about by chance-let
alone the DNA molecule itself,
made up of millions of sections-has
been completely invalidated. An
evolutionary biologist, Frank B.
Salisbury, has this to say:
A medium protein might include about
300 amino acids. The DNA gene control-
Figure 2.4
The arrangement of atoms in the ling this would have about 1,000
DNA helix, whose diameter is only
a millionth of a millimeter nucleotides in its chain. Since there are
four kinds of nucleotides in a DNA

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