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cytoplasm for the manufacture of antibodies, as well as
an extensive channeling system for the packaging and ex-
porting the antibodies. One B cell can pump out more
than 10 million antibody molecules an hour.
Here is a single cell that transforms itself into a fac-
tory competent enough to produce 10 million weapons
an hour on meeting an enemy. If we remember that this
cell can produce different weapons for each of its mil-
lions of enemies, we can better understand the scope of
the miracle in question here.
Some B cells become "memory cells". These cells do
not immediately participate in the body's defence, but
keep molecular records of past invaders in order to ac-
celerate a potential war in the future. Their memory is
very strong. When the body meets the same enemy
again, this time it is rapidly geared to the appropriate
weaponry production. Thus, defence becomes faster
and more efficient.
Here, we cannot help asking ourselves: "How can
man, who considers himself the most advanced being,
have a memory weaker than that of a tiny cell?"
Unable to explain even how the memory of a nor-
mal human being forms and works, evolutionists never
attempt to explain the existence of such a memory as a
matter of evolution.
If a lump of flesh the size of a hundredth of a millime-
ter had only one single piece of information, and used this
information for the benefit of mankind in the most accu-
rate way, even this would be a miracle in its own right.
However, what we are referring to here goes far beyond
that. The cell stores millions of pieces of information for