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Harun Yahya

rate from one another just as if they had been ordered to do so. This di-

vision is very important to the digestive process, since the trypsin, sud-
denly released, starts breaking down proteins in the food reaching the
duodenum. The moment and site these two substances separate is very
exact. Were they to part company too early, trypsin would break down
the pancreas itself. If they never separated, then food entering the body
would not get digested. Yet they never fall into such errors. Every meal
you consume is digested as a result of these two molecules knowing
just when to separate from one another. This happens in exactly the
right place and at exactly the right time.
It is of course impossible for enzymes to be able to establish such

timing by chance or under their own volition. An enzyme, another pro-
tein that inhibits it, the pancreas that manufactures them, the hormones
that travel between them as messengers—plus all the molecules, other
proteins and enzymes involved in these phenomena—cannot all be in
the same place at the same time or act together in complete harmony by
chance. It is impossible for even a single one of these to have formed by
coincidence. Allah creates them all, and they are all in a constant state
of obedience to Him.
What would happen if there were no trypsin inhibitor? Any fail-
ure of this mechanism to function could result in death. For example,
when the pancreas suffers severe injury, or when a passage is blocked,
a large amount of pancreatic secretions accumulates in the damaged

area. That might make the trypsin inhibitor being insufficient to keep
the enzymes, working together at very high speed, from digesting the
whole pancreas in a matter of a few hours. The result would be shock,
usually ending in death, or a lifetime of pancreatic deficiency. 65
If the pancreas can't secrete enough fluid to ensure digestion, this
of course presents a major problem. However, the body has taken a pre-
cautionary measure against this. In such an eventuality, the pancreas
sends messages everywhere in the body in order to locate metabolic en-

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