Page 93 - The Miracle in the Atom

Atoms That Come Alive

p to here, we talked about atoms and how matter is created out
of nothing. We said that atoms are the building blocks of
everything whether animate or inanimate. It is important to
U note that atoms are building blocks of animate organisms as
well as inanimate objects. Since atoms are inanimate particles, it is extremely
astonishing for them to be the building blocks of living beings. This is also
an issue evolutionists can never explain.
Just as it is impossible to imagine pieces of stone coming together to

form living organisms, so is it impossible to imagine inanimate atoms by
themselves coming together to form living organisms. Think about a lump
of rock and a butterfly; one is inanimate, the other is animate. Yet, when we
delve into their essences, we see that both are made up of the same sub-ato-
mic particles.
The following example may be more explanatory regarding the impos-
sibility of inanimate matter transforming by itself into animate matter: can
aluminium fly? No. If we mix aluminium with plastic and gasoline, can it
fly? Of course it still cannot. Only if we bring together these materials in a
way so as to form an airplane, can they fly. So, what makes an airplane fly?
Is it the wings? The engine? The pilot? None of these can fly by themselves.
In fact, an airplane is manufactured by the assemblage in a special design of

different pieces each of which has no ability to fly. The ability to fly is deri-
ved neither from aluminium, nor plastic, nor gasoline. The specifications of
these substances are important, but the ability to fly can only be gained by
bringing these substances together in a very special design. Living systems
are no different. A living cell is formed by the arrangement of inanimate
atoms in a very special design. Faculties of living cells, such as growth, rep-
roduction and others, are results of perfect design rather than the properties
of molecules. The design we find at this point is only Allah's creating the li-
ving from the dead:

Allah is He Who splits the seed and kernel. He brings forth the living
from the dead, and produces the dead out of the living. That is Allah,
so how are you perverted? (Surat al-An'am: 95)

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