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CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE CELL

ANTIBODIES CAN FIGHT MICROBES THEY HAVE

NEVER ENCOUNTERED BEFORE

Every day, thousands of microbes infiltrate the body, and the
human immune system immediately tries to neutralize them.
However, some microbes and foreign agents that can't be avoided
enter the bloodstream and pose a serious danger. These foreign
agents are called antigens. But the immune system produces sub-
stances called antibodies, that act against these antigens, and try
to destroy them and prevent them from multiplying.
Antibodies' most important feature is their ability to recog-
nize—and then prepare themselves to destroy—the hundreds of
thousands of different microbes found in nature. Most interest-
ingly, some antibodies can even recognize synthetic antigens, pre-
pared in the laboratory and then injected into a test subject.
How can one cell recognize hundreds of thousands of different
foreign ones? Moreover, how does it attain the ability to recognize
a substance that has been synthesized artificially? Even if we
accept that antibodies can somehow recognize antigens in the
body, it is still astounding that they can also recognize an antigen
they have never come across before. In addition, since the anti-
bodies can identify the foreign agent that has entered the body,
they then produce the most effective weapons to use against it.
Coincidence cannot explain how a mechanism inside the body can
possess such astonishing information about the outside world.
This fact leaves the evolutionists in a bind. Having failed to
explain with their theories antibodies' ability to identify all types
of foreign agents entering the body, evolutionists try to gloss over
the topic with illogical, scientifically unacceptable explanations.
One example of the explanations of how an antibody can rec-
ognize synthetic antigens can be seen in the words of Turkish evo-

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