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18 ALLAH'S ART OF DETAIL

DNA: A Glorious Marvel of Creation

Each person has an average of 100 trillion cells, each of which
contains a DNA molecule. Just one of these contains information re-
garding 3 billion different subjects, enough information to fill ap-
proximately 1,000 volumes of books, each one containing 1 million
pages. If we were to lay these pages out side by side, they would
stretch from the North Pole to the Equator. If we were to read it 24
hours a day, it would take 100 years to finish it. This glorious infor-
mation belongs to a single DNA molecule,
which exists everywhere in our body,
such as in a single fingernail or a
single hair.
How could such an in-
credible library have been
squeezed into a minute

hair too small to be seen
with the naked eye? How
could it have been packed
into all of the cells that con-
stitute that hair and all of the
other cells that make up our