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The Zip Code System Within Cells

What we know about the incompa-
rable systems in the cells is quite small
compared to what we do not know. The
Nobel Prize is usually shared by a num-
ber of scientists, but in 1999, only Gun-
ter Blobel took the award for his
discovery of the zip code system in cells.
In an interview done after he received
the award, Professor Blobel said:
We are at the level now that we
understand many of the basic
mechanisms of protein traffic with-
in the cell but we haven't under-
stood them all yet. We are working,
for instance, on traffic between the
nucleus and the cytoplasm, and we
are far from understanding how
this traffic is regulated and how it
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The truth is evident. No matter where we go, every point in the
depths of space, of the sea, of the forest or in the deep recesses of our bod-
ies is redolent with signs of God's knowledge, art and power. People
were unaware in past centuries of the wonders of creation contained in
cells; but each one of them captures the imagination today. Every new
development in cell biology documents the fact that the claims of evolu-
tionists are deceitful nonsense. At the same time, they show once again
that the wonderful order in cells was created by God's single command;
"Be" and that they are under His control at each moment. Every detail
determined relative to a cell is an occasion for us to exalt the glory and
power of our Lord, Almighty God.
His command when He desires a thing is just to say to it, "Be!" and
it is. Glory be to Him Who has the Dominion of all things in His
Hand. To Him you will be returned. (Qur'an, 36: 82-83)

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