Page 81 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

Harun Yahya

ade you drank years ago, or upon smelling spices, a delicious holiday
meal may come to mind. The perfume of a flower may cause one to re-
member the same flower in the garden of an entirely different city many
years before. Plants are unaware of the consequences that may arise from
chemicals or chemical compounds. Therefore, in the same way that they
lack the means to decide to build the necessary facilities to manufacture

these scents, they also lack the sensory organs or nerves with which to de-
cide whether a smell is pleasant or otherwise. Also they don’t know how
scent perception works in human beings. It is clear each of these is the
work of Allah, Lord of infinite knowledge and artistry, Who creates all
things to be compatible with one another. Allah, Who created all scents
and the organs that perceive them, has also created the human soul in
such a way as to be affected by them.

Brain

Scent bulb

Scent bulb
Vomeronasal organ

Smell epithelium Nasal cavity

We can distinguish smells thanks to the extraordinary system in our noses.
Each one of the 5 millions cells that detect scent is charged with trapping
scent molecules. We perceive smells as the result of processes per-
formed in less than a second.

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