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Awareness Demonstrated by the Egg Cell

The cells which make preparations to lodge in the walls of the uterus are ge-
netically different from those of the mother. Why they are not rejected like an organ
or a tissue transplanted to the mother's body has been for a long time an unsolved
mystery. R. Flanagan explains it this way:
...The cell cluster suppresses its genetic markers and instead gives out special
signals that can be compared to a universal password. This password is the
same for all people and is the same one that the mother's cells expressed when
she herself was just such a cluster. Therefore, her cells do not now mobilize de-
fences against the new arrivals, because they biologically recognize the nest-
ing cluster as universal friend, not foe. 1
Attention must be drawn here to a very important point. As Flanagan says, it
is a very great mystery how a group of cells sends
egg cell
a "universal message" to another group of cells
which receives this message and "understands"
that they are meeting not an enemy but a friend. It
must be remembered that we are not talking here
about a group of human beings, but a mass made
up of cells too small to be seen with the naked eye;
immune
a mass which has no hands, eyes, ears or brain, cell
composed of unconscious atoms, molecules and
proteins. Surely to expect such a demonstration of
awareness from cells is extremely illogical. egg cell
The truth confronting us is clear: What en-
sures that the embryo lodges easily in the
mother's womb and survives there is the mercy of
God, Who created the embryo, the mother and the
mother's defensive system.
Truly, God has knowledge of the Hour and immune
sends down abundant rain and knows what cell
is in the womb. And no soul knows what it
Immune cells of the mother ap-
will earn tomorrow and no soul knows in proach to destroy the embryo.
what land it will die. God is All-Knowing, (above) However, a perfect design
in the body does not let them
All-Aware. (Qur'an, 31: 34) cause harm to the egg.

1- Geraldine Lux Flanagan, Beginning Life, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1996, p. 34