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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

ing mes sa ges where required—all exceed ing ly con scious
behav ior. No cell thought of these duties by itself. To say
that your body devel oped this life-sav ing sys tem by
chance flies in the face of rea son and logic.
Also impor tant is that nor mal ly, most macro pha ges
have encoun tered such an attack for the first time. Cells
with no prior train ing can eval u ate the sit u a tion of which
they have no pre vi ous knowl edge, and dis tin guish
between what is dan ger ous and what is not. This can't
pos si bly be the result of coin ci dence. This per fect sys tem
is a great bless ing from our Lord, the Compassionate and
Merciful, as well as being an exam ple of His omnis cience.
(For details, see Harun Yahya, The Miracle of the Immune
System.)

The Placenta's Selection of Nutrients

An egg cell fer ti lized by a sperm or zygote, begins
rap id ly divid ing into two cells, then four, then eight. To
do this, it requires large quan ti ties of nutri ents. In order
to take nour ish ment from the moth er, some of the embry -
o's cells form the pla cen ta, a struc ture that per mits the
exchange of food stuffs, oxy gen and other sub stan ces
between moth er and her baby. In order to con sti tute new
cell groups—tis sues, in other words—the pla cen ta care -
ful ly selects the right nutri ents and oxy gen, and in car ry -
ing these to the fetus, the pla cen ta also sep a rates out
waste pro ducts to be sent out of the moth er's body.
Placental cells know what the baby will need and
when. They take the nec es sa ry meas ures in the light of

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