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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

tions by making a special arrangement in its own structure
and to know that it must carry oxygen to every cell in the
body. The molecule in question is nothing more than a col-
lection of unconscious atoms. However, our Omniscient
Lord, Creator of all, has created the hemoglobin molecule
to protect it from oxygen's harmful effects, and reveals to
us the fine detail of His Creation. In his book Nature's
Destiny, the famous microbiologist Michael Denton
describes the flawless Creation in hemoglobin:

As the efficient transport of oxygen is essential to the viability
of any large active organism with a high metabolic rate, a mol-
ecule with properties of hemoglobin would seem to be essential.
Might there be any alternatives to hemoglobin? None of the
many other oxygen-carving molecules which occur in the blood
of invertebrates, such as the copper-containing proteins of the
molluscs, come close to the efficiency of hemoglobin in trans-
porting oxygen in blood. As Ernest Baldwin commented,
"Mammalian haemoglobin is far and away the most successful
of the respiratory pigments from this point of view". . . . The
evidence is consistent with the possibility that hemoglobin is the
ideal and unique respiratory pigment for metabolically active
air-breathing organisms. . . . 69
As Michael Denton states here, hemoglobin is the most
ideal form of transport. The way that a mass of molecules
can distinguish one molecule from another in the darkness
of the body, in an area very large compared with its own
size, and attach itself to that molecule in the most appro-
priate way reveals one of the proofs of Almighty Allah's
infinite knowledge.

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