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other diseases such as Mediterranean anemia, hemophilia, cystic fibro-
sis, familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and congenital deafness.

Many other inherited diseases that give rise to very serious conse-
quences are caused by various defects in genetic structure. The main
reason for every one of these disorders is just a few of the billions of let-
ters in the genetic code being in the wrong place. In the genetic disease
known as Huntington's disease, patients appear healthy up until the
age of 35. After that age, however, uncontrollable contractions sudden-
ly take place in the arms, leg and face muscles. Since this fatal and in-
curable disease also affects the brain, the sufferer's memory and mental
functions grow increasingly weaker.
All these diseases demonstrate that the genetic code has been bal-

anced so flawlessly that the slightest alteration in the system can cause
serious problems. Just one letter too few or too many can give rise to fa-
tal diseases or serious handicaps that last throughout the sufferer's life.
Therefore, it's impossible to claim that such a delicate order and regu-
larity came about by chance and--as maintained by the theory of evolu-
tion--developed spontaneously through mutations.
That being so, how did the magnificent information contained in
DNA come about? How was it coded? Evolutionists, who trace the or-
igins of life to chance, have no answer to give. Those who claim that bil-
lions of pieces of data, were written by chance will of course have no
answer to give. In the same way that a book has an author, so the infor-
mation in DNA has a creator; and that Creator is our Lord, Almighty

and Omniscient Allah.
Random effects only damage living things, because of the way the
genetic code is encoded. Just about all known genes contain more than
one piece of information about the organism. The molecular biologist
Michael Denton describes this property of genes:
The effects of genes on development are often surprisingly diverse. In the
house mouse, nearly every coat-colour gene has some effect on body size.