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If enemy members are more than the currently
fighting macrophages can handle, a special substance is
secreted. The name of this substance is "pyrogen" and it
is a kind of alarm call.
After traveling a long way, "pyrogen" reaches the
brain where it stimulates the fever-increasing centre of
the brain. Once alerted, the brain sets off alarms in the
body and the person develops a high fever. The patient
with a high fever naturally feels the need to rest. Thus,
the energy needed by the defence army is not spent
elsewhere. The pyrogen produced by the macrophages
is perfectly designed to trigger the fever-raising mecha-
nism of the brain. Therefore, the macrophage, and the
pyrogen, and the temperature-raising centre of the
brain, and the brain have all to be created at the same
time.
As is evident, there is a perfect plan at work. Every
requirement is created flawlessly for this plan to suc-
ceed; the macrophages, the pyrogen substance and oth-
er similar substances, the fever-raising centre of the
brain and the fever-raising mechanisms of the body…
In the absence of even one of these, the system
would simply not work. Therefore, it can by no means
be claimed that such a system could have originated
step by step through evolution.
Who, then, has made this plan?
Who knows that the body’s fever must rise, and
that only that way the energy needed by the defence ar-
my will not be spent elsewhere?
Is it the macrophages?
To the right, you can see macrophages
while trying to ingest foreign materials.