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THE MIRACLE OF HUMAN CREATION

embryo could not survive.
The fact that an organ formed from cells is aware of the needs of a li-
ving thing, determines what is needed and acts with the knowledge of
how to supply the need; and the fact that this organ can produce the re-
quired material in the correct proportion, select and appropriate it from
outside; in short, that such an organ can display conscious activity is not
something that it can do by its own unaided efforts. For example, if a hu-
man being were required to perform the same function, he would not be
able to do it. To understand what a foetus needs and when to take the me-
asures required; to choose the appropriate material and to repel unwan-
ted material are things that a person without medical training cannot do.
(Even a person with medical training could not continually, day and

night, perform this duty without making a mistake.)
But these duties that a human being cannot perform, can be effected
efficiently and flawlessly by this organ we call the placenta. And the pla-
centa of every one of the millions of human beings who have lived thro-
ughout thousands of years has demonstrated the same deep awareness
and perfect performance. Indeed, the perfect structure of the placenta and
its conscious activities are the result of God's creating it with all of these
characteristics. To claim the opposite would be to step beyond the limits
of intelligence. With the excellent design that He has created in the human
body, God shows us His incomparable art, and commands us in the
Qur'an to consider these truths:
He is Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything in between
them, so worship Him and persevere in His worship. Do you know of
any other worthy of His Name? Man says, "When I am dead, will I
then be again raised to life?" Does not man recall that We created him
before when he was not anything? (Qur'an, 19: 65-67)

In the subjects to be discussed in the following pages, there is an im-
portant point which should not be forgotten. As we have seen in the
examples given so far, all the units of the human body which act accor-
ding to a plan, perform their various duties in due time, know at which

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