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THE MIRACLE OF HUMAN CREATION

Here it is useful to notice an important point. It is a wonder that the
cell cluster is able to choose the most appropriate place for itself. In his bo-
ok, Beginning Life, G. Flanagan also asks "How does the cluster make such
an astonishingly "forward-looking" selection?"
The point to which Flanagan draws attention is very important. In
order to illustrate this importance, let us first consider an example. Imagi-
ne a baby that is just beginning to walk. You place this baby in a building
which is millions of times larger than itself, and which it has never seen
before; then you expect that the baby can find a room in this building with
the most suitable environment for itself. Could a small baby do such a
thing? Certainly it could not. If this feat is impossible for a baby which has
not yet reached the age where it can use its mental abilities, with no expe-
rience or accumulation of knowledge, how much more impossible is it for
a piece of flesh, a few centimetres in size, wandering in the dark void of a
body, to find the most suitable, most comfortable and most secure place
for itself?
Moreover, this cell cluster is not even a human being yet. Remember
that what we refer to here is a piece of flesh composed of at the most a few
hundred cells (for the moment), with no ears, eyes, brain, hands or arms.
But this cell mass, demonstrating an exceptional recognition ability, lod-
ges itself in the uterus as the most suitable place for itself.
The wonders of human creation do not stop here. In every stage of
the formation of a human being, there is a wonderful chain of miraculous
occurrences. We have spoken about how the fertilised egg cell multiplies
and how it finds the place needed for its development. But at this stage,
another question confronts us: This cell cluster, composed of cells totally
similar to one another, has no special anchor or other similar organ to al-
low it to attach itself to a place. How then can it attach itself to the wall of
the uterus?
The way the cell cluster attaches itself to the wall of the uterus is part
of an interesting and highly complex system. The cells in the outer layer
of the cell cluster secrete an enzyme called hyaluronidase. The particula-
rity of this enzyme (as we mentioned before in the case of the sperm) is to

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