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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

divide or grow? This is a very miraculous phenomenon, because a parcel of
tissue no larger than a chickpea governs all the cells in the body and pro-
vides for the growth of these cells, either by expanding their volume or by
dividing and multiplying.
Another question we need to ask ourselves is this: why does this piece
of tissue perform this task? Why do these cells spend their entire existence
sending messages telling other cells to divide?
At this point, the perfection of God's creation once again reveals itself.
Cells in one tiny region ensure that trillions of other far-flung cells divide
and grow within a regular order. Yet these cells have no way of perceiving,
seeing the human body's symmetry from the outside, nor of knowing how
much the bones and muscles still need to grow, nor what stage of the de-
velopmental process has been reached. These unconscious cells produce
growth hormone inside the darkness of the body, without even knowing
what they are doing—and yet, also halt the process when the appropriate
time comes. The system has been created so flawlessly that every phase of
growth and the secretion of this hormone is kept under control at all times.
The way that growth hormone commands some cells to increase their
volume and others to multiply through division is an entirely separate mir-
acle—because the hormone that reaches both types of cell is exactly the
same. However, the way that the cell receiving the hormone is to behave is
encoded in its genes. Growth hormone issues the command to grow, but
the way in which this process is to take place is written inside that cell. This
once again demonstrates the might and majesty of creation in every point
in the human body.
Another very important detail here is yet another great miracle: the
way that growth hormone affects all the body's cells. If some cells obeyed
the growth hormone while others ignored or rebelled against it, then unde-
sirable, even catastrophic consequences would result. For example, if car-
diac cells were to increase in size, in the manner that growth hormone
commands while bone cells in the ribs refused to multiply and increase
their number and mass, then the expanding heart would be trapped in the
narrow ribcage and slowly be crushed to death.
Or if the nasal bone continued growing while the skin stopped, the

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