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The Mir a cle in the Cell Mem brane

things were the prod uct of nat u ral laws and coin ci dence.
In the 19th cen tu ry, the "eter nal uni verse" model dom i -
nat ed, main tain ing that the uni verse had exist ed for ever
and func tioned sole ly by means of nat u ral laws and coin -
ci dence. By the 20th cen tu ry, mate ri al ists imag ined that
they had account ed for every thing in terms of their own
the o ries.
How e ver, the 20th cen tu ry unfold ed in a way they
never expect ed. A string of sci en tif ic dis cov er ies in the
fields of both astro phys ics and biol o gy proved that the
Uni verse and liv ing things had been cre at ed. The
hypoth e ses of Dar win ism col lapsed, one after the other.
The Big Bang the o ry showed that the uni verse had been
cre at ed from noth ing. New find ings showed the great
cre a tiv i ty and fine tun ing in the mate ri al world, again
reveal ing claims of mate ri al ism to be ground less.
Over the last years, these two impor tant issues—the
sci en tif ic col lapse of Dar win ism and the Cre a tion of the
uni verse from noth ing and its fine tun ing—have been
raised by a great many sci en tists and sci en tif ic writers. In
the 1970s, phys i cists and astron o mers raised the
Anthrop ic Prin ci ple, which showed that the uni verse was
not a mass of coin ci den ces but on the con tra ry, reveals an
extraor di na ry Cre a tion and arrange ment ide al ly suit ed to
human life in its every detail. We have already exam ined
these sub jects in detail in our pre vi ous works. (See Harun
Yahya The Cre a tion of the Uni verse, and The Chain of Mir a -
cles.)
All these books con cern the ori gin of the uni verse and

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