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For example, if growth hormone is being secreted, it sets into action
all the systems concerned with growth. That the hypothalamus constant-

ly produces such secretions, spreading throughout the entire body and
adjusting its equilibrium, is of the greatest importance. However, even
though the growth hormones travel throughout the body, it will affect
only the relevant locations of the body. These mere secretions, that is to
say hormones know which parts of the body they need to act on and af-
fect only these, despite traveling through the entire body. Yet these ac-
tions all require consciousness and intelligence. The way that the secre-
tion finds its way and recognizes every region inside the body, arrives at
its destination with impeccable timing, initiates the requisite changes
and at just the required level— causing hair to grow, for example—are
all phenomena that cannot possibly be the result of chance. Also excep-
tionally important is the way this secretion knows whether the body is a
man’s or a woman’s and establishes a different equilibrium accordingly.
In men, hormones cause the beard to grow and the voice to deepen,
whereas in women they prevent these changes. The way an unconscious

fluid with no ability to make distinctions can operate such a planned, ac-
curate and conscious system definitely cannot be accounted for in terms
of chance. This system is the creation of God, Lord of infinite intellect
and knowledge.