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THE MIRACLE OF HUMAN CREATION

But, at this stage, it is absolutely necessary for every neuron to find
the place in the nervous system reserved for it. For this reason, a guide is
indispensable in order for the young neurons to find their way. These gu-
ides are special cells which stretch out as a kind of cable between the pla-
ces where the brain and spinal cord develop. The neurons leave the place
where they were produced and migrate attached to these guides. They re-
cognize the place allotted to them, lodge there and immediately send out
extensions establishing connections with other neurons.
This is all very well. But how do the neurons know to set out on such
a long journey as soon as they are formed? How do they decide to use a
guide to reach their target and to cooperate with one another? What we
call neurons are cells, too small to be seen with the naked eye, and are
composed of atoms and molecules. No doubt they cannot deploy in such
a conscious way by their own decision or will. What directs this activity
is not the brain, because the brain of the embryo in the mother's womb has
not yet developed.
As soon as these cells are formed, they move as if programmed, di-
rected by information infused into them, to a place they do not know. It is
clear that in the process of the formation of the brain and the nervous sys-
tem, no occurrence can come about by chance, because a variation in one
single stage would cause a chain reaction making the whole system go
wrong. The formation of neurons and their becoming a system of nerves
is only one stage in the formation of the brain and the nervous system at-
tached to it. Let alone the brain, as the evolutionists claim, not even one
neuron can be formed by coincidence.
There are many more details of this development. For example,
when they first come to be, the neurons have a different structure from
those of a mature human being. In order to perform the functions requ-
ired by the nervous system of a developing human being, the neurons
migrate to a particular part of the body, and in the first stage, their meta-
bolism enables them to survive without oxygen. However, when they ar-
rive at the brain area and establish themselves there, they immediately
acquire a metabolism that depends on oxygen for its survival. For the be-

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