Page 172 - Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

astonishes scientists. There is enough information in a single human
DNA molecule to fill a million encyclopaedia pages or 1,000 volumes.
To put it another way, the nucleus of a cell contains information, equiv-
alent to that in a 1 million-page encyclopaedia. It serves to control all

the functions of the human body. To make a comparison, the 23-volume
Encyclopaedia Britannica, one of the largest encyclopaedias in the world,
contains a total of 25,000 pages. Yet a single molecule in the nucleus of
a cell, and which is so much smaller than that cell, contains a store of
information 40 times larger than the world's largest encyclopaedias.
That means that what we have here is a 1,000-volume encyclopaedia,
the like of which exists nowhere else on Earth. This is a miracle of
design and creation within our very own bodies, for which evolution-
ists and materialists have no answer.
Bearing in mind that the structure of DNA was unravelled by

Francis Crick in 1953, it is truly amazing that the Qur'an pointed to the
concept of "genetic planning" in an age when, as we have mentioned
previously, mankind's knowledge was very limited. Geneticists were
unable to discuss until the end of the 19th century and these remark-
able facts act again as proofs that the Qur'an is the word of Allah. (See
Harun Yahya, The Miracle of Creation in DNA, Goodword Books, New
Delhi, 2002)

The DNA molecule con-
Genome Cell
sists of 4 different Chromosomes
nucleotides one behind Genes
containing
the other in different
Genes the infor-
sequences. The mation
sequences of these mole- about the
synthesis
cules constitute the data of proteins
regarding the structure of
DNA
all the proteins to be
used by living things. Proteins
Proteins use these data,
either alone or in com-
plex forms, to carry out
many cellular activities.

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