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the binding process. After the first heme group catches the
oxygen, changes that occur in the structure of the hemoglobin
facilitate the capture of oxygen by the other heme groups. 55
During this process, if the hemoglobin combines directly with
the oxygen—in other words, if it becomes oxidized—the result
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is methemoglobinemia, a disease that causes the skin to lose its
color and turn blue. The victim suffers shortness of breath and
a weakening of the mucous membranes.
Every detail of this flawless structure is proof of a previ-
ously determined plan. The way the red blood cells eject the or-
ganelles inside them to make room for hemoglobin, how these
expelled substances are immediately cleaned up by functionar-
ies standing by, and the features that both keep hemoglobin

from being harmed by the oxygen and allow it to deposit the
oxygen into the tissues, are all features of a flawless planning. It
is clearly impossible for unconscious, inanimate atoms to orga-
nize such a perfect system as a result of evolutionary forces.
Furthermore, very important details are required for the estab-
lishment of such a system. Hemoglobin takes precautionary
measures and transports oxygen as if it were fully able to calcu-

late how oxygen could damage it and, later, transports the oxy-
gen to exactly where it needs to go. The way that hemoglobin
recognizes and selects oxygen molecules is a miraculous sys-
tem, impossible to have come into being by chance. In addition,
this established system has been constructed in a form that is
completely compatible with the entire human body.
In his book Nature's Destiny, the famous microbiologist,
Michael Denton, refers to the flawless structure of hemoglobin:

As the efficient transport of oxygen is essential to the viability
of any large active organism with a high metabolic rate, a mol-
ecule with the properties of hemoglobin would seem to be es-