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at all, especially those of the peacock. That
someone was Charles Darwin. This is because
Darwin believed that the feathers of the peacock
have happened by chance. However, these feathers
are so breathtakingly beautiful that a person
cannot believe that they have been formed by
chance. Darwin said about these feathers, “Now,
trifling particulars of structure often make me
very uncomfortable. The sight of a feather in a
peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me
sick!”.
Allah created the feathers of the peacock that
we enjoy so much. Darwin, however, said that they
“make him sick” since he did not want to believe
this truth.
We have said before that there are trillions of
cells in the human body. Each of these cells
includes the data about all the person’s features.
What we have not yet mentioned is where inside
the cell all of this data is stored.
Inside the nucleus of each cell, there are parts
containing DNA. DNA holds all the information
about the human body. All the data, such as the
colour of your hair or your eyes, your inner
organs, the way you look, your height, is all stored
in your DNA. This data can be encoded using 4
different chemicals referred to by the letters, A, T,
G, and C. Each letter shows the first letter of a
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