Page 144 - Miracles Within the Molecule

HArun yahya

A FEW EXAMPLES OF CRYSTALS' FLAWLESS
STRUCTURE

The min er als of which rocks are com posed fur nish the most famil -
iar exam ples of crys tals; every one rec og niz es crys tal line quartz, gems,
and most sem i pre cious stones. But few real ize that with few excep tions
the entire solid crust of the Earth is crys tal line. 66 Were you able to see
this crust mag ni fied, you would be utter ly amazed at what you saw.
You would see that every where you stepped was an unin ter rupt ed
plane bound with reg u lar geo met ri cal shapes, and you would real ize
that this was even more reg u lar than every thing else you see around
you. You would real ize that flaw less struc tures, with their sub lime sym -
me try and aes thet ic appeal, are exhib it ed in even the small est specks of
dust, was also right under your feet. You would sense the splen dor as
well as the beau ty of all this at every moment. In fact, with every step
you take on Earth, you are faced with a per fect cre a tion. What deceives
you is mere ly the fact that you can not per ceive this sub lime art ist ry with
your naked eyes.
Other famil iar exam ples of crys tals are snow flakes. The crys tals
that give rise to snow flakes are loose ly bond ed togeth er, giv ing rise to
such dif fer ent pat terns that no snow flake is iden ti cal to any other. On a
snowy day, you can eas i ly dis cov er that snow flakes have very dif fer ent
shapes from one anoth er by using a mag ni fy ing glass. The possibility of
ever find ing two iden ti cal snow flakes is exceed ing ly remote. Now, how
many snow flakes fall in mere ly one acre over the course of a year? How
about the moun tains cov ered in snow and the sub-zero polar regions?
Now, put ting all these aside, con sid er how much snow falls on Earth
over a year. If you had the means of bring ing all these indi vid u al snow -
flakes togeth er and exam in ing them one by one, you would see that
each one was com plete ly dif fer ent. The rea son for this is the molec u lar
prop er ty of the mol e cu les con sti tut ing the snow flakes. Because of this,
the snow crys tals form with dif fer ent geo met ri cal struc tures, with in
their six-armed pat tern.
The struc tures of all water mol e cu les are bas i cal ly the same, but

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