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HARUN YAHYA
the amino acids to be used in production, and innumerable other
complex enzymes that facilitate these processes. All had to be found
in the same environment-which, moreover, had to have been com-
pletely isolated and controlled. Only in the cell itself are found all of
the needed raw materials and energy sources. Consequently, an
organic substance can replicate itself only if there first exists a com-
pletely functional cell with all its organelles in place. This means that
the cell, with its all incredibly complex structure, was created in one
instant.
But for a complex structure to come into being instantaneously,
what are the implications?
We can compare the cell's complexity to that of a highly devel-
oped car (even though the cell actually constitutes a much more com-
plex and highly developed system). Now, suppose you went for a
walk through an untouched forest one day and found the latest model
car among the trees. All the raw materials making up the car-iron,
plastic, rubber, etc.-are made from substances that occur naturally. But
would you believe that such a sophisticated, user-friendly machine
came about as a result of the coincidental coming together of different
elements in the forest over millions of years? Would you think that
these various substances were also made coincidentally, and then
came together to make such a car?
Of course, you know that any car is the product of conscious
design-by engineers working in a factory. And you would wonder
what it was doing in the middle of a forest.
For such a complex structure as the cell to come into being in one
instant indicates that it was created by a conscious Being. The proba-
bility that one useful, meaningful protein could come about by chance
is zero, so how impossible is the coming together of millions of these
various proteins to form a cell?
Moreover, this chain of impossibilities does not end there. Even
if the millions of proteins needed came about by coincidence and

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