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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

Generally, when a hor mone attach es to the tar get cell's
recep tor, this leads to a fall in the num ber of active recep -
tors and to a reduc tion in the tar get tis sue's sen si tiv i ty to
the hor mone. For that rea son, either the recep tors are acti -
vat ed at other times, or are re-acti vat ed, or else new recep -
tors are pro duced by the mech a nisms form ing the cell pro -
tein. As you see, every thing tak ing place at every stage is
direct ed towards a par tic u lar end. It is self-con tra dict o ry to
main tain that pur pose ful phe nom e na are the work of
chance—just one of many mat ters that face Darwinists
with an insol u ble dilem ma.
In addi tion, cells gen er al ly pos sess dif fer ent recep tors
for the same mes sage. These recep tors are gen er al ly spe cif -
ic to a sin gle hor mone, so that only the recep tor that needs
to be stim u lat ed is stim u lat ed, and the tis sue that needs to
be affect ed is affect ed. In the same way that only a key of
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Receptors for many peptide
hormones, amino acids All of a living thing's systems
obtained from growth factors and organs must be operative
and hormones
at the same time. The system
will not work if there are hor-
Steroid hormones
and receptors mones, but no receptors to
perceive them, or if there are
receptors, but no hormones.
It will also fail if the cell does
Nucleus
not know how to use the
information being carried.
These interconnected bal-
ances point to a single truth:
Man was created in a single
Cell moment, and in a flawless
membrane Hormone
manner.
Special steroid
Intracellular fluid hormone receptor
Thyroid hormone
receptor

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