Page 126 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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Due to external factors, a great many errors may be made in the
new DNA molecule produced at such a great speed. Ribosomes in the

cell now begin manufacturing DNA-repair enzymes in the light of the
instruction reaching them from DNA. This means that the DNA has
taken the necessary steps to protect itself!
Like the human beings they constitute, cells are born, multiply
and die. However, the lifespan of cells is very much shorter than that of
the human beings. For example, the vast majority of the cells that made
up your body six months ago are no longer alive. Yet since they gradu-
ally divided and were replaced by new ones, you remain alive and well
today. That is why events such as cell multiplication and the replication
of DNA are so vitally important to human life and offer no room for

even the slightest error.
One astonishing aspect of all this is that the enzymes that ensure
the production of DNA and also supervise its structure are proteins
produced at the command of that same DNA, under the control of the
information contained within it. It is absolutely impossible for it to
have assumed this magnificently convoluted system as the result of
gradual, random coincidences, because DNA has to exist for the en-
zyme to appear. But also, the enzyme must exist for DNA, and all the
organelles in the cell must be present to permit the existence of both. As
you can see from this summarized information, the elements in your
body accomplish all their tasks successfully and completely.
Allah has placed countless atoms and molecules, from the very
largest to the very smallest, at our service in order for us to be able to

live healthy lives. In one verse He reveals that:
. . . Allah pours out His favor on humanity, but most people do not
show thanks. (Surah Ghafir, 61)
To whom actually belongs the intelligence and knowledge that re-
alizes that a replication of the DNA must be made during cell division,
which carry out the replication process in such a flawless manner, and