If you placed ten numbered marbles in a bag, what are the chances that you will be able to pull them out of the bag in the order numbered from one to ten? The chances are 26 million to one! So, what are the chances that the orchestration of the Heavens, the Earth and everything within them were thrown together in just one explosion without any thought going into the intricate processes that keeps everything functioning in an orderly fashion? Some of the best evidence of the Creation is to be found in the human body: ◊ As we develop in our mother’s womb, our heart begins to beat and her body sustains us until our birth. When we arrive in this world, from the very first moment, our heart continues to beat. It will continue to do so for an average of seventy years, sometimes even more. In order to understand the miracle of how well designed our bodies are, we have to consider the heart’s strength and function. Imagine holding a tennis ball in the palm of your hand. How long can you continue to squash it before your hand gets tired? That is the strength that our heart needs to continue pumping from the moment we arrive on this earth until we depart – and yet it works non-stop! ◊ The functions of our brain are another sign of the greatness of the Creation. It can receive and store information, while distinguishes and categorizes it. It analyzes and retrieves it as needed and does all these functions constantly and in a millionth of a second. With this great gift from God, we have built machines, developed science, medicine and visited space. ◊ Our kidneys were created by Allah to perform hundreds of chemical analyses and functions simultaneously. Seamlessly, they rid our bodies of toxicity without us even having to do anything except keep our bodies hydrated. ◊ Our eyes are a human camera and can adjust to light, focus near or far and apply color automatically, while they send images to our brain to evaluate and analyze. Through our eyes we can enjoy the rest of the Creation all around us. Let us look at our Universe: ◊ Our universe has been built with such precision that nothing collides or conflicts with each other. The stars, moons and other heavenly bodies move around in their orderly orbits. The Earth is one planet in the Solar System, which is one of the systems in the Milky Way, which in turn is one constellation in just one of millions of galaxies. ◊ The oceans on our planet are synchronized as are the other inhabitants of the Earth - the flora and fauna, bacteria and chemical elements. There is harmony, variation, design, maintenance and operation in an infinite and perpetual way that is obviously not by chance. Is the reproduction and maintenance of all this beauty surrounding us all by chance? No, of course not! It is foolish to believe chance played a role in all this, and we can all agree that the Creation is completely outside the realm of human capabilities. The Quran makes the statement, “And we created the human beings from the hanging clot that was clinging to the wall of the womb.” (Quran 23:13) Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) had no way of knowing that the embryo starts out as a clot hanging to the wall of the uterus of the mother. He did not possess any medical instruments, nor did he have x-ray vision. How did he receive this knowledge when it was only discovered a few decades back? “And it is He Who has let free the two seas (kinds of water), one palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter, and He has set a barrier and a complete partition between them.” (Quran 25:53)
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