Page 19 - The Miracle of Creation in DNA

outcome. God reveals this truth in a holy verse:
We created you, so why do you not confirm the truth? Have you thought
about the sperm that you ejaculate? Is it you who create it or are We the
Creator? (Qur'an, 56:57-59)
When the father's sperm cell fertilizes
the mother's egg cell, the parents' genes
come together to determine all the physical
characteristics of the baby that will
eventually be born. Each of the thousands
of different genes has a particular function.
It is the genes that determine hair and eye
colour, facial shape, and countless details in
the skeleton, internal organs, brain, nerves
and muscles.
When the sperm unites with the egg, a
cell forms-the basis of a new human being-
and along with that cell, the first copy of
the DNA molecule also forms, which will
carry that person's genetic code inside each
cell all through his life.
In order for that first cell, the fertilized
egg, to turn into a human being, it needs to
multiply, and in the knowledge of that, it
begins to divide, with a remarkable
consciousness. That consciousness reveals
itself in the next phase. As the cells divide,
they begin to grow different and go to those
parts of the body where they are needed.
Instead of a mass of flesh composed of
exactly the same cells, some of them turn
into eye cells and go where they are
needed, others form heart cells and go to
the chest, and still others become skin cells

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