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Blood: The Incomparable
Liquid of Life

tion for this also. A protein known as fibrin stabilizing factor
squeezes together the fibrins making up the clot by attaching
them tightly to one another. If there were no such reinforcing
factor, then the wound would immediately open up again
with your ordinary, day-to-day movements, and that region
could never heal.
Another measure concerns the removal of the clot. The
scab that forms once a wound has healed also has to be broken
down again. An enzyme called plasmin assumes this respon-
sibility. Plasmin attacks the fibrins and tears the clot apart by
severing them one by one. In fact, plasmin begins doing so
from the moment the fibrins first form. In other words, as the
fibrins come together to form the clot, the plasmin is busily
trying to destroy them. The timing of these two processes has
been created with such a perfect equilibrium that while the
plasmin is busy attacking the fibrins, the wound heals. The
faster the fibrin formation, the slower their removal by the
plasmin, so that the two processes finish at exactly the right
time. 67
Even someone who knows only the broad outlines of this
mechanism as described here can comfortably conclude that
any event occurring randomly in such a system will inevitably
damage it. That being so, evolutionists need to explain how
chance came to bring about a protein so important for coagu-
lation and located it in the blood. What random event realized
the need to produce another protein in order to set it in motion
and accordingly formed an interconnected chain? Which
coincidence has taught the protein to come into action
when there is an injury to the blood vessel, and which
coincidence has stopped the protein's activity when
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