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which establish such a magnificent system capable of immediately rec-
tifying processing errors? It would be completely illogical to say that
such a flawless organization developed as the result of chance. Even

were you to combine all the atoms in the universe, providing all the
necessary conditions you could still never produce a system that carries
out DNA replication by chance. It is abundantly clear that Allah, Al-
mighty and Omniscient, created such a flawless system and has contin-
ued to maintain it for millions of years.
This fact is also revealed in a verse from the Qur'an:
What is in the heavens and in the Earth belongs to Allah. Allah encom-
passes all things. (Surat an-Nisa', 126)

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When a cell divides, errors sometimes arise as the chromosomes
replicate themselves. To prevent errors in the genetic data accumulat-
ing in subsequent generations, every living thing possesses a mecha-
nism that identifies and corrects the great majority of these errors. Did
this mechanism not exist, the genetic structure of living things would
soon become impaired, and extinction would be the eventual result.
The cell also works as an editor to reduce the number of such er-
rors, though one or two are an acceptable level. Thanks to this control
mechanism, a very small level of error –between one in a billion and
one in a hundred billion– remains. One error in 100 billion is the equiv-
alent of one mistake in a text of 50 million pages. It would take 100 pro-
fessional layout staff, working non-stop for their entire lives, to pro-
duce 50 million pages. 91
The nuclear physicist Gerald L. Schroeder describes the intellect
displayed in the quality control system in the cell:
The cleverness of the system is subtle. Not just how it learned to get a pro-
tein to open the helix, or how DNA-P is made and then knows to come
on the scene, or how it finds and joins the correct base. Those acts in