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THE MIRACLE OF HUMAN CREATION

So far so good, but who gives the command to these cells which all
arise out of one single essence? How can cells, which have no intelligen-
ce, awareness or feeling, understand this command and put it into effect?
Scientists have determined that the plan which dictates the differen-
tiation of the cells and their lodging in the appropriate place in the body
is written in the DNA. But this raises the question: Who wrote this mag-
nificent plan so perfectly in this microscopic information bank hidden in
the nucleus of cells?
Furthermore, who causes the cells to read this plan written in the
DNA and to apply it without error? How is it that millions of different
cells can find the information relevant to themselves in an immense infor-
mation bank in the DNA and change their structure according to it?
For example, consider the cells which form the eyes: How can they
know when the pupil is fully formed? How can they know how to struc-
ture the retina, the eye muscles, and the lens and how to give them their
appropriate size? And how do they know at what point to stop these pro-
cesses?
Or, how do cells which have never seen a liver, kidneys or a pancre-
as know the particularities of these organs and change their structure in
accordance with this knowledge?
Moreover, when these cells change their structure according to the

organs that they are going to form, they take many factors into considera-
tion. For example, a cell which changes to become a brain cell must take
account of the nervous system, the nourishment of the brain, the oxygen
supply, the necessity of establishing a connection among all the nerves in
the body; it must also distinguish the parts of the brain that see, hear and
feel. Other cells take into consideration the possibility that the brain might
be damaged and surround it; they evaluate the negative factors that could
occur in the birth process and form structure according to these conside-
rations. This is all very well, but how can cells display such "prescience"
in their behaviour?
All these questions show that human birth is a great miracle, and the

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