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THE MIRACLE OF HUMAN CREATION

the uterus for the baby. The same
hormone performs a totally different
Have they not
function in men, stimulating the cells
looked into the
for the secretion of the testosterone
dominions of the
hormone. Testosterone produces the
heavens and the
male characteristics and assures the
earth and what God
production of sperm.
has created, and seen
It is certainly interesting to con-
that it may well be
sider that same hormones are produ-
that their appointed
ced in different bodies according to
time is near? In what
the same formulas but cause results
which are totally different from one other revelation will
another. they believe, those
When a hormone is secreted in a that deny this?
male body, it knows that it belongs to (Qur'an, 7: 185)
a male and makes the appropriate
changes. For example, testosterone
causes the development of muscles
in the male body, it makes the voice deeper and the beard grow.
The same hormone is secreted in the female body according to the sa-
me formula but, in women, it causes almost totally opposite results. A
hormone that gives a female voice to a woman and a male voice to a man
and that can adjust the development of the body according to the sex, is a
hormone that can distinguish between the anatomy and chemistry of a
male and female body. The fact that a hormone possesses such knowled-
ge means that it has intelligence and must have received instruction.
Many people do not even know about the influence of hormones on
the male and female reproductive organs, the inter-relations among the
cells or how the bodily functions have been put into operation. They ha-
ve no idea of the body's chain of command, the sending and delivering of
the messages, that the development of the body depends on these com-
mands, and that the slightest hitch in the functioning of the system can
have fatal consequences; nor do they have any control over this functi-
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