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NATURE AND SCIENCE SPEAK ABOUT GOD

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By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Nature and Science Speak about God ~ 125 ~ have eaten, whether it be meat, spinach, rice, or cheese, into simpler substances, which can be absorbed by the cells of our body and built up into our flesh and bones. The chemical changes that take place are truly marvellous—well beyond the capacity of the best equipped of our laboratories. And there are five million of these little chemical units in the stomach, some forty million in the intestines, and more than three and a half billion in the liver. They produce, not only the chemicals needed to digest our food, where and when required, but also effective remedies against diseases like cholera and dysentery. At the same time, the liver manufactures substances which help the body to burn some of the food we have eaten, to provide the heat and energy every living being needs. The digestive system is not only a chemical factory, but a powerhouse as well. The Lungs: These are organs which bring the blood into contact with clean fresh air—for they knew, long before we ourselves were aware of the fact, that to purify the blood nothing is better than a good bath of oxygen.

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