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Harun Yahya

through His inspiration, performing the tasks determined by Him in

the place determined by Him. It is Almighty Allah Who determines
how much of which enzyme is required and how production should
take place. All the control mechanisms discussed operate solely by
Allah's leave, and all the systems that encode proteins and regulate en-
zymes are also under His control. Unconscious molecules clearly have
no power to carry out the processes that take place in the cell every sec-
ond. That power belongs to Allah alone.
Allah's sublime artistry prevails in all things. A person can see this
everywhere he looks, in every cell he examines. Because this is the sole
truth that prevails throughout the Earth and heavens. Allah has re-
vealed this in another verse:

The Unseen of the heavens and the Earth belongs to Allah and the
whole affair will be returned to Him. So worship Him and put your
trust in Him. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do. (Surah Hud:
123)

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Were it not for enzymes, a whole lifetime would not be enough for
a single chemical reaction to take place. Reactions that would otherwise
take hundreds of years to occur are so accelerated by enzymes that they
do so not in hours or minutes, but in a matter of milliseconds. Enzymes
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can accelerate a reaction by up to 10 times. This is a number consist-
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ing of 1 followed by 14 zeros. Were it not for that speed, a simple five-
second process, such as the reading of this sentence, would last 1,500
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Were it not for enzymes, processes that cells can perform in sec-
onds would take thousands of years. To put it more bluntly, life would
be impossible. Enzymes have been charged with accelerating countless
reactions essential for the vitality of any organism, to an extraordinary
rapidity.
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