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HARUN YAHYA
During the past 150 years, from Victorian times until now,
both science and technology have made enormous strides. Scien-
tists have discovered the real structure of what Haeckel described
as being a "simple little lump." They have been amazed to see that
the cell is not remotely as simple as was once believed, but contains
a number of unimaginably complex systems that could never have
been conceived of, much less understood, in Darwin's day.
In explaining the structure of the cell, Professor Michael Den-
ton, the famous molecular biologist, makes this analogy:
To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular
biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it
is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship
large enough to cover a great city like London or New York.
What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled
complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we
would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast
space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual stream of
materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these
openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme tech-
nology and bewildering complexity... (Michael Denton,
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, London: Burnett Books, 1985, p. 328)
This book will introduce the miracles of creation in the living
cell, a miniature masterpiece that possesses a much more compli-
cated and wondrous system than a giant spaceship's. We will show
how the organelles inside the cell, together with the enzymes, pro-
teins and other substances that it produces, perform purposeful
functions that could never be expected of them. We'll give exam-
ples of the literally trillions of cells to be found in the human body,
each of which displays superhuman intelligence and wisdom.
Once again, we remind ourselves how all of this cannot be merely
an unconscious coincidence, but is a product of God.
Proofs of God's creation, and manifestations of His superior

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