Page 241 - In The Name Of Allah, The All-Merciful And Most Merciful

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Toward the aorta
Aorta
Pulmonary artery
Auricle
Ventricle
Right ventricle
Auricle
Left ventricle
Sinus (space
opening onto veins)
From the veins
The heart is a vital organ. As shown in the illustration, it starts to
grow from the union of two arteries. Allah, with His supreme intelli-
gence, made special valve systems of unconscious cells, thereby
creating a pump to carry blood to every part of the body.

think more profoundly about the limitless kindness of our
Lord. Faced with such facts, how can we not ponder His lim-
itless kindness and try to draw closer to Him?

It is a great miracle that the growth hormone affects
each cell, for much confusion would arise if only some cells
obeyed it. For example, what would happen if the heart cells
obeyed but the cells in the rib cage refused to divide and

multiply? The growing heart would be squeezed in the still-
small rib cage, and the person would die. Or, if the nose
bone grew and the skin did not stretch, the bone would tear
through the skin. The harmonious growth of all muscles,
bones, skin, and other organs is perfectly ensured when each
cell obeys the growth hormone. The growth hormone tells
the cartilage to grow on the ends of the bones, thus giving

each new-born a template. If the cartilage does not grow,
neither does the baby. Its cells direct the bone to lengthen,
but how do these cells know that the bone must be told to do

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