Page 138 - The Miraculous Machine that Works for an Entire Lifetime: Enzyme

Harun Yahya

acetylcholinesterase is proof of this. Of all the enzymes in the body, if

only this enzyme were missing, we could not possibly live, since in a
sense, all the electricity in our bodies would be shut off.
Disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are the result of this enzyme
in question failing to function systematically. In that disease, acetyl-
choline is destroyed more quickly than normal, and thus nerve im-
pulses are either too weak to be received or else not transmitted com-
pletely along the nerve cells. 84
The intercommunication between 100 billion nerve cells and the
nervous network stretching thousands of miles among them is a most
marvelous work of Allah. If He so chose, He could of course have cre-

ated an uninterrupted field with no gaps anywhere on it. The electrical
signal could have flowed along the nerves without the need for any
chemicals. But this is not how the body works. There is a need for gaps
between the nerves, for the chemicals to ensure the transmission be-
tween them, and for other chemicals to inhibit these same chemicals.
One of the wisest aspects of this is how human beings investigating all
this in the laboratory constantly find perfections, miracles and com-
plexities. Allah creates details within details of an extraordinary com-
plexity, and brings them into being dependent on one another.
Here, we are examining the activities of one single component of
the system. However, if you remove this small component from the
equation, the system will be deprived of all its functions. In other

words, only a single enzyme is a critical part of the nervous system. You
cannot reduce this mechanism or simplify it. Were it not for this en-
zyme, the message from your brain would not reach your arm, but be-
come lost in your body. You would be unable even to move your finger,
let alone wave at a friend.
These amazing systems you possess are created by Allah. This
process is constantly repeated in all your 100 billion nerve cells for the
millions of movements you make every day and the countless stimuli

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