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THE MIRACLE IN THE ATOM

wrong reactions as far as living sys-
tems are concerned. Left to time, Everything in the heavens
chance, and their own chemical ten- and every creature on the
earth prostrates to Allah,
dencies, DNA and protein react in
as do the angels. They are
ways that destroy a living system
not puffed up with pride.
and would prevent any postulated
They fear their Lord above
development of life. 41
them and do everything they
As seen, it is absolutely impos-
are ordered to do. (Surat an-
sible for DNA and proteins, which
Nahl: 49-50)
can by no means form randomly, to
be left uncontrolled to form life fol-
lowing their own formations. Jean Guitton, a contemporary philosopher,
addressed this impossibility in his book titled Dieu et la Science (God and Sci-
ence), stating that life could not have formed as a result of coincidences:
Following which 'coincidence' did certain atoms draw near each other
to form the first molecules of amino acids? Again, through which coin-
cidence did these molecules come together to form this extremely
complex structure called DNA? I am asking this simple question just
like the biological scientist François Jacob did: Who prepared the plans
of the first DNA molecule to give the first message that led to the birth
of the first living cell?

If one is satisfied with assumptions involving coincidences, these qu-
estions – and many others – remain unanswered; this is why, for the
last few years, the biologists began to change their views. Top researc-
hers are not satisfied by re-telling Darwin's laws without thinking,
parrot-fashion; they put forward new surprising theories. These are
theories based on the idea that an organizing principle that is appa-
rently superior to matter is involved in the process. 42

As Jean Guitton stated, science has reached such a point, in the light of
th
research and scientific discoveries made in the 20 century, that it has been
scientifically established that Darwin's theory of evolution has no validity

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