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ameter. Thanks to this they never experience any difficulty in ingest-
ing blood.
It's worth noting that there are no exceptions in this regard: The
same perfection is evident in all blood-sucking creatures. Could all of
them have measured the diameter of blood cells and designed their
feeding tubes accordingly? Or could they have carried out various ex-
periments to determine a tube wide enough to allow blood cells to
pass, but small enough not to restrict the cells' movement capacities?
If so, then how did those individuals who were successful at the first
attempt manage to transmit that information and thus save subse-
quent generations from extinction?
Of course, none of these things could possibly have happened. No
insect can be aware of the structure of another living thing's blood,
and that various cells within that blood affect the blood's viscosity.
No rational person would ever imagine such things upon learning
that the mosquito's bodily structure is entirely compatible with blood
sucking, or imagine that some insect discovered all this for itself one
day. It is clear that such compatibility could not come about by
chance.
In order for the mosquito to suck blood, it's not sufficient for it to
possess a tube through which blood cells can pass. Above all it needs
a force to make the blood move through the tube, and a way to pro-
duce that force. There are muscles in the mosquito's head, and as the
muscles expand and contract, there is a fall in pressure. As a result,
blood begins moving up the feeding tube.
There is only one explanation for the mosquito's perfect mecha-
nisms: It is God Who creates them. The blood cell and the tube
through which it passes were both created by a power, together with
all the properties they possess. That power is God, the omniscient and
flawless Creator.

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